[A Publisher and His Friends by Samuel Smiles]@TWC D-Link bookA Publisher and His Friends CHAPTER X 13/26
We walked home at 10 o'clock.
On Saturday we passed a very pleasant day at Petersham with Turner and his family.... "I have got at last Mr.Eagle's 'Journal of Penrose, the Seaman,' for which, as you may remember, I am to pay L200 in twelve months for 1,000 copies: too dear perhaps; but Lord Byron sent me word this morning by letter (for he borrowed the MS.
last night): 'Penrose is most amusing.
I never read so much of a book at one sitting in my life.
He kept me up half the night, and made me dream of him the other half.
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