...hatching his poems..

“He was sick of the noise and sight of so many people and determined to go quiet…”

“you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition …”

“And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?'Oh, no! It is a g…”

“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Str…”