John Ayscough

Pages from the Past John Ayscough

To MRS. WILLIAM ARKWRIGHT Sutton Scarsdale, Chesterfield Dear Mrs. Arkwright It is very kind of you to allow me to dedicate this little book to you. In asking you to stand godmother to it, I had no better reason to give than that you liked the book. 1only hope that many other people may like it as well, so that you may not be ashamed of your godchild. It is a pity that some of the chapters could not be told so fully, in print, as they were told viva voce to you. But the heirs and assigns of people who have acted oddly are apt to like keeping to themselves the legacies of queerness to which they stand heirs.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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