Excerpt from Charles Godfrey Lelar, Vol. 2 of 2: A Biography When I turn to the correspondence with the new friends the Rye made in England. My pile of letters becomes a sort of cinematograph in writing of the literary life of London during the seventies, of the few men and women whose greatness has grown with the years, of the many who already in their work appear to us as old fashioned as the tiny Sheets of paper, fit for a doll's house, upon which they wrote, and the elaborate crossing of their pages. The picture, to my regret, is imperfect; whole sections of it have disappeared. I find hardly a reference to the Saturday receptions in Park Square; a re gret for one special Saturday from John Payne, translator of Villon and Your Brother in Rabe lais, as he signs himself, is the chief trace as yet discovered of evenings memorable to all London old enough to have enjoyed them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.