Gunnison Valley News | 1919-06-20 | Page 7 | Authors' Handwriting

Authors' Handwriting. If readers and admirers of the polished pol-ished sentences of popular authors could see the original manuscripts from which their works are printed they would be given interesting sidelights side-lights on the character and personality personal-ity of the writers. The handwriting of G. K. Chest erton has been described by an English editor as "shocking." W. W. Jacobs, comedy writer of the sea, has all his literary work typed and makes but few corrections on the finished fin-ished manuscript. Other English writers whose copy Is reputed to be neat and quite acceptable to a printer are II. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Co-nan Co-nan Doyle. Editors say they never knmv what to expect from that imaginative im-aginative genius, H. de Vere Stacpoole. Sometimes his work Is neatly typed on good paper, but often it is scribbled to sheets torn from a copybook.