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THE
STORY OF MY HEART
RICHARD JEFFERIES
After an Etching by W. Srranc, A.R.A.
THE STORY OF ieee EER AK I
MY AUIOBIOGRAPHY
BY
RICHARD JEFFERIES
AUTHOR OF ‘‘ THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME,”
““WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY,” ETC.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
first printed September 1883. SILVER LIBRARY EDITION, June 7892.
Reprinted August 1891; July 1894; November 1896; December 1898 ; October rgor ; August 1904; April 1906; August r9gro.
POCKET EpiTIon, February 1907. Reprinted April rg08, and March rori.
PACE ACE
THE title of this book is “The Story of my Heart: my Autobiography,” but it is not an autobiography in the ordinary sense of. the word. In contains no history of the events of Richard Jefferies’ life. It is in no way concerned with his birth or his “marriage, his actions or his fortunes. All that is known of these has been told in ‘The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies,’ by Walter Besant. Sunt lachryme rerum, as the an- cient poet sang, and for those who have tears to shed, what story is there more sure to draw them than that tale of heroic
struggle against the agony of disease, of
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mean for the Magazine. . . . I wonder if you would like my autobiographical con- fessions.
I remain, faithfully yours,
RICHARD JEFFERIES.