Excerpt from A Last Diary, 1921
Supplied the inspiration of Enjoying Life, the volume of essays that revealed him more distinctively in the character of a naturalist and a man of letters. Still, the diary was primarily written for himself. It was his means of self-expression, the secret chamber of his soul into which no other person, how ever deep in his love and confidence, might penetrate. More than once I asked him to let me look at those parts which he thought suitable for publication, but shyly he turned aside the suggestion with the remark: Some day, perhaps, but not now. All I ever saw was a part of the first essay in Eiybying Life, and an account of his wanderings in a spirit of burning exultation over the great stretch of sandy burrows at the estuary of that beautiful Devonshire river, the Taw, where in long days of solitude he first taught himself with the zeal and patience of the born naturalist the ways of birds and fish and insects, and learnt to love the sweet harmony of the sunlight and the ?owers; where, too, as a mere boy he first meditated upon the mysteries of life and death.
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