Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-26
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EMINENT AUTHORS AND EDITORS
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WHO WHITE ALEosoLt-
Ez.mpsss q carsoss CAiragr.pAy Fus-
aish-d BY Cha.ss. Grssasy. BsasA Wssae
worth. Scott and ayre.-ss~s spses-
mems Of NinufeaeaA
In letter written BY Nathaniel hAv-
therne when . youthful ssudens At bowdom
college be remarks. What do you think Of
INV becoming an author and relying for sup
r,,rt upou NV lent Indsed, think ID
iilexibiiity Of my handwriting b very author
hke.- The truth Of shs early assertioOb
attested by the fact that at bis death the
famous romancer left several manuscripts
that remained long unpublishsd hecsuo no
one could be found 70 dcciphsr their intrica-
cies His remark also serves to illustrate the
proverbial reputation for poor penmAnahip
with when, IN common with the Legal pro
f,sssion. literary people have been - long
credited
This reputation is. At the present day a.
least, almost wholly undessryet. since, with
very few exceptions. the chiroGraphy OF our
ulost prominent authors isquife unexception-
able IN its Iegibility 1t is no doubt true thas
the handwriting Of joaquin Miller resembles
a iilapidated hedge fence. that Nora Perryb
melts away into intrfcaciss OF ulegibtnty;
that Aldriehis character are but half formed
and that William WinterS are 20 strange
and crooked as 10 resemble japanese hero
glyphics. but, on the other hand. the chiro0-
raphy Of Holmes, How eils, Harte and host
of others are fair examples Of the clerical
neatness Of most Of our modern writers man
uscripts
The little pleasantly Of Hawthorne'a, how
ever, had some foundation in fact. as many
amusing anecdotes are recorded Of veritabls
curiosities Of chiroSraphy among the most
noted writers Of the past Some years ago .
new form Of annual was proposed in Eng
land, which was to consist Of u story by EN-
inent authors, each Of whom was to write .
page. to be produced in fac-simile. After re-
ceiving few manuscripts the publishers were
obliged to abandon tie undertaking, a. it was
found that many o! the pages would b
utterly illegible TO the ordinary reader, and
because some Of them would contain twenty
words. while others would comprise enough
to i'll a newspaper column This idea was,
however, practically carried out in an edition
Of one Of Hugh Conways stories, in which
each alternate page was fac-simile Of the
authors manuscript, but it is safe to say that
few readers ever took the trouble to decipher
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