This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Howard Overing Sturgis
- ISBN10: 1595691308
- ISBN13: 9781595691309
'Tim' 1891 is a delicate portrayal of a sensitive boys devoted affection for an older boy-a very touching story of a tender and self-forgetful character. -- Howard Overing Sturgis 1855-1920 was an English writer, the author of only three novels: 'All That Was Possible,' 'Tim,' and 'Belchamber.' He attended Eton College, where some of the scenes in 'Tim' take place. He was an intimate friend of Henry James. -- 'My dearest of all Howards, I long so for news of you that nothing but this act of aggression will serve, and that even though I know none better! what a heavy, not to say intolerable overburdening of illness is the request that those even too afflicted to feed themselves shall feed the post with vivid accounts of themselves. But though I dont in the least imagine that you are not feeding yourself I hope very regularly and daintily, this is all the same an irresistible surrender to sentiments of which you are the loved object-downright crude affection, fond interest, uncontrollable yearning. Look you, it isnt a request for anything, even though I languish in the vague-its just a renewed 'declaration'-of dispositions long, I trust familiar to you and which my uncertainty itself makes me want, for my relief, to reiterate.' Henry James to Howard Sturgis, Sept. 2nd, 1913
