The Loudwater Tragedy

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, History, Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book The Loudwater Tragedy by Thomas Wilkinson Speight, Library of Alexandria
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Thomas Wilkinson Speight ISBN: 9781465621689
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Thomas Wilkinson Speight
ISBN: 9781465621689
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

My Dear Phil.--By this post I send you a copy of a certain penny weekly journal entitled The Family Cornucopia, which, for lack of something better to read, I picked up the other day at a bookstall while on my way to the beach. Naturally, you will at once say to yourself (for you cannot deny, dear, that you occasionally express yourself with somewhat unnecessary emphasis over trifles), 'What the dickens does the girl mean by bothering me with her trumpery penny rubbish?' Well, that is just the point about which 'the girl' is going to enlighten you. "Of course you have not forgotten 'The Loudwater Tragedy,' as most of the newspapers called it at the time (although some there were who wrote of it as the 'Merehampton Mystery'). Neither, perhaps, has it escaped your memory how, with the object of helping to interest and carry out of herself for a little while, a young woman who, just then, was staying at a dull Devonshire village with the captious, but much-to-be-pitied, invalid in whose service she was, you wrote her a number of letters, dated from the very roof under which the tragedy in question had been enacted, in which you recapitulated for her information all the details of the crime as gathered by you on the spot; nor how you sketched for her the old mansion and its inmates, with the view from its windows, and all the quaint features of the sleepy little seaport, so that, after a time, she could almost have persuaded herself that what you had written formed a part of her personal experiences. If you have forgotten those letters, I have not. Yesterday I refreshed my memory by reading them again, and the reason I did so is this. "In the periodical I am sending you there is an article extending over five pages, entitled, 'How, and Why' which, strange to say, not merely seems to be based on the Loudwater Tragedy, but, under the guise of fiction, tells the story of the crime down to its minutest details; and not only does that, but, with almost photographic fidelity, limns for its readers the portraits of the various persons who were in any way mixed up with that mysterious affair.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

My Dear Phil.--By this post I send you a copy of a certain penny weekly journal entitled The Family Cornucopia, which, for lack of something better to read, I picked up the other day at a bookstall while on my way to the beach. Naturally, you will at once say to yourself (for you cannot deny, dear, that you occasionally express yourself with somewhat unnecessary emphasis over trifles), 'What the dickens does the girl mean by bothering me with her trumpery penny rubbish?' Well, that is just the point about which 'the girl' is going to enlighten you. "Of course you have not forgotten 'The Loudwater Tragedy,' as most of the newspapers called it at the time (although some there were who wrote of it as the 'Merehampton Mystery'). Neither, perhaps, has it escaped your memory how, with the object of helping to interest and carry out of herself for a little while, a young woman who, just then, was staying at a dull Devonshire village with the captious, but much-to-be-pitied, invalid in whose service she was, you wrote her a number of letters, dated from the very roof under which the tragedy in question had been enacted, in which you recapitulated for her information all the details of the crime as gathered by you on the spot; nor how you sketched for her the old mansion and its inmates, with the view from its windows, and all the quaint features of the sleepy little seaport, so that, after a time, she could almost have persuaded herself that what you had written formed a part of her personal experiences. If you have forgotten those letters, I have not. Yesterday I refreshed my memory by reading them again, and the reason I did so is this. "In the periodical I am sending you there is an article extending over five pages, entitled, 'How, and Why' which, strange to say, not merely seems to be based on the Loudwater Tragedy, but, under the guise of fiction, tells the story of the crime down to its minutest details; and not only does that, but, with almost photographic fidelity, limns for its readers the portraits of the various persons who were in any way mixed up with that mysterious affair.

More books from Library of Alexandria

Cover of the book Dialogues in French and English by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book La Tempesta by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Ned in the Block-House: A Tale of Early Days in the West by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book As We Are and As We May Be by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763 by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Four Phases of Love by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Life of Beethoven by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book The Vampyre by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book The Death of Olivier Becaille by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Benjamin Franklin: Representative Selections With Introduction, Bibliograpy, and Notes by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Tarass Boulba by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Calumny Refuted by Facts from Liberia Presented to the Boston Anti-Slavery Bazaar, U.S. by the Author of A Tribute For The Negro by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book Principal Teachings of the True Sect of Pure Land by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
Cover of the book The Weavers: A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago by Thomas Wilkinson Speight
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy