Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-04 | Page 5 | Cleared Statesman of Debt

CLEARED STATESMAN OF DEBT j 4 7 I 1 endymion fulfilled expectations of author in the year 1872 lord Beacons beaconsfield field commenced his last novel endymion a work undertaken chiefly from the honorable desire to obtain a sum of money that would finally wipe off a residue of monetary engagements ile he worked at it pretty steadily until the general election of 1874 called him to office when his literary work was waa set aside still he wrote at it occasionally casio nally till the beginning of the year 1876 when the eastern question coming to the front and engrossing his attention he as he thought finally laid the work aside he then wrote a letter to lord rowton inclosing the manuscript unfinished by something like pages of printed matter he stated his view that the pressure of public work would preclude his continuing the novel and in the event of his decease he instructed lord rowton to finish the work but not to volunteer the announcement that it had been left in an incomplete state or to avow his collaboration leaving the ae book to stand solely in the name of its original creator lord beaconsfield Beacons field however living through his own administration and finding comparative leisure when in opposition completed tho the novel with his own hand and it was sold ty the splendid sum aum of a wina all which enabled him to fulfill his chor cher dished desire of paying off his bis debts