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ook down the words irritated one in any way; it would be still more impossible。 Provided circumstances are congenial; however; the plan has merits; since to many the mere physical labour of writing clogs the mind。 So; at least; various producers of books seem to have found。 Among them I recall Thackeray and Stevenson。

Of the next few years of my life there is not much to tell。 I lived here at Ditchingham in a very quiet and retired fashion; rarely visiting London; wrote a few novels; and for recreation occupied myself with farming and gardening; for which occupations I have always had an instinctive taste。 The work that I did was a good deal attacked: it was the fashion to attack me in those days。 Possibly owing to my ill…health some of it may not have been quite up to the mark; I do not know。 What I do know is that I grew heartily tired of the writing of stories。 After the birth of my youngest child; Lilias; which to my great joy happened at the end of the year 1892; my health and spirits began to mend and my energy to return; largely owing; I think; to the treatment of my friend Dr。 Lyne Stivens。 I was still a youngish man; but had reached that time of life when I felt that if I was to make any change of occupation it must be done at once。 And I longed to make a change; for this humdrum existence in a country parish; staring at crops and cultivating flowers; was; I felt; more suitable to some aged man whose life’s work was done than to myself。 Also at this time the unrealities of fiction…writing greatly wearied me; oddly enough much more than they do at present; when they have bee a kind of amusement and set…off to the more serious things and thoughts with which my life is occupied。

Still it is true that even now; if circumstances allowed of it; I do not

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