) PREFACE ae ) dow of George Lovibond Bridges, R.N.,”

_ pe House, Shrewsbury. hus was re- ystacle to the publication of this Memoir 3

War, there was at the moment a further . 1919

y the shortage of paper. ~ ebruary 1919 Richard Alexander Streat- a by his will bequeathed to me all copy- a: Flood, _ rritten by Butler and in all illustrations gs mich Water Pires 7S copies of such books, and all drawings, _ oks which formerly belonged to Butler.

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aappen after his death and how to pro-

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il Civil Conmetiba 4 See ee phnedecbolt 14 Subterranean Fire Ethel Roun i inued management of his books. | The tt Loweleee lat, as I was about sixteen years his junior, WB Linen at taunary | him ; but he wanted some one who had ait ie pralcey eae mts publishers, and for this we agreed that aio , “nboyeisente and Servants || Streatfeild had in Butler’s eyes the ghee, |) of having already induced a firm to S itten by him without himself having to fa on them—a thing which Butler had failed }, been before the public about thirty years. st the person who undertook the office iness, he ought also to be some one who : pee. 2 get on well with me, because it would “a i ; him to consult with me. At the time f yf i. 4 was re-making his will on his death-bed he told me i 3 ; i = : thought Streatfeild was about the best man we : if it j : a Or the purpose. Streatfeild had helped him the j A, Y du } aes with the proofs of Erewhon Revisited and of LB sedi) Mi new edition of Erewhon, while 1 was away. He had