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INTRODUCTION
TO
PHILIP
1860-1862
EVERYONE is familiar with the cover of The Cornhill
Magazine, which my father admired so much. He amused
himself at one time by making a copy of it, which is
given on the next page.
" I hope you will pay him very well," the editor writes to the
proprietor of The Cornhill Magazine, concerning this said cover.
The Cornhill was first planned and talked of in the spring of
1859. Later in that year we went abroad—my father, my sister,
and I—beginning our journey with Tours and Toulouse, and travelling
round by Genoa, Milan, by the Via Mala to Switzerland. One
of the party fell ill on the way. " For the last week we have not
been in Paradise," he writes from Coire to his mother. "We
could not have had a prettier prison than this dear little old town,
nor, I am sure, a more patient prisoner. ... If I can work for
three years now I shall have put back my patrimony and a little
over, after thirty years of ups and downs. I made a calculation
the other day of receipts in the last twenty years, and can only
sum up about £32,000 of money actually received, for which I
have values or disbursements of £13,000, so that I haven't spent at
the rate of more than £1000 a year for twenty years. The profits
of the lectures figure as the greatest of the receipts, £9500;
' Virginians,' six ; ' Vanity Fair,' only two. Three more years, please
the Fates, and the girls will have the eight or ten thousand a-piece
that I want for them ; and we mustn't say a word against the filthy
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