Literary
HAGGARD
(Sir H. Rider, 1856-1925, Novelist, Author of 'King Solomon's Mines')
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Flintoff,
thanking him for his letter and saying how sorry he is to hear of your accident. It is a sad world for some of us - but you must try to buck up your spirits. Is there anything that I can send you..., sending him a photo and a copy of Jess which I think you have not read, 2 sides 8vo., Ditchingham House headed paper, Bungay, 13th June
Item Date: 1889
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Rider Haggard writes vividly about this Mr Flintoff in one of his published books, A Farmer's Year (1899), pp. 418-419. “A while ago I was interested in a paralytic of the name of FlintofT, a native of London, who passed the last years of his life in the Ditchingham Hospital, and whose story would be worth the telling if I had the space to write down human documents. One day a message was sent to me to say that he was dying, and I hurried to the place to bid him farewell. He received me with a beaming smile. ' Thank God, dear friend,' he gasped in a broken whisper so low that I could scarcely catch his words, ' at last I am ‘shuffling off — this mortal coil.’” Presumably the accident the letter refers to caused his paralysis.
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