Kansas Physician Confirms Howard Report

[Phil Carter]

Hello Jeff,

I have been thoroughly enjoying this thread all the way along. It hasd given me much food for thought along the way. TradeName has done a brilliant job on this. I have nothing but praise for the persons passion for the subject. Thank you.

best wishes

Phil

[TradeName]

Thanks for the kind words, Phil.

Thanks, Mayerling, for the kind words and the interesting information about Anderson, the Waterloo Bridge Mystery and the Italian secret societies.

[TradeName]

Legitimist League; Banlruptcy

Some announcements about the Legitimist League and the Carlist Committees:

The Church Herald, February 26, 1873, Page 135

THE LEGITIMIST LEAGUE.

Sir,—Will you kindly permit me to call attention to our advertisement in another column. It is calculated that the League will be able to do much to stem the advancing tide of Republicanism. With that object in view, the right hand of fellowship has been willingly extended to the French and Spanish committees already established in London.

The Council of the League has received assurances of support from some of our most distinguished politicians; but as the League is in connection with similar institutions abroad the names of its members will not be made public. The reading-room and museum will be opened as soon as the council has procured suitable premises.

Charles E. Stuart, Hon. Sec.

Page 143

Legitimist League.

GOD AND KING

v.

INFIDELITY, USURPATION, AND
REPUBLICANISM.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION not less

than FIVE SHILLINGS. Honorary Members, ONE GUINEA.

For further information address, enclosing stamp for reply, C. E. STUART, Hon. Sec., 178, Strand, W.C.

N.B.—The Carlist Committee have permission to receive Subscriptions at the above address in support of His Majesty Charles the Seventh.


March 5, 1873, Page 157

The Legitimist League have opened an office at 16, Northumberland-street, Strand. Communications should be addressed to the Secretary, Mr. E. Dunn, at that address.


Page 159

The Legitimist League.

FOR GOD, COUNTRY, AND KING

OFFICE: 16, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, CHARING CROSS.

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION not less

than FIVE SHILLINGS. Honorary Members, ONE GUINEA.

E. DUNN, Secretary.

March 12, 1873, Page 167

DON CARLOS AND THE CARLISTS. Sra,—Your journal is really refreshing to the nerves of the honest citizens of the nineteenth century, who, in spite of surrounding "enlightenment," still superstitiously cling to principles of honour, right, and true liberty. I saw with delight the announcement in your columns of the formation of "A Legitimist league," and that they are already setting themselves to practical work, not being contented with mere gossip, which seems the staple commodity of some Church Unions and conferences. The good gentlemen belonging to these latter institutions being very like our police—nowhere to be seen when most wanted.

The League, your columns inform us, have formed a Carlist committee, and are raising funds to aid the noble cause of Don Carlos, the legitimate and hereditary king of poor agonized Spain. The Church Times ridicules "the League," not, I would hope, Don Carlos's cause. The Guardian thinks that Englishmen will take no interest in King Carlos's success or the League's efforts to aid him. Sir, the Guardian is scarcely fair to Englishmen. Shall we not take an interest—profound and religious,too-- in Don Carlos's cause, when we properly understand what that cause is. With humble reverence may I say it, the cause of Don Carlos is the cause of our adorable Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The cause of Christianity against Infidelity, of Liberty and Morality against License and Lust, Right against Wrong. The noble and handsome young soldier King Carlos is the impersonification of everything that stirs the devotion and excites the chivalrous enthusiasm of Christian men. Wherever Don Carlos is seen, wherever the glorious young Christian King unfurls his banner, prayer and truth will arise and take refuge. They say that "priests" are in King Carlos's train. No wonder. King Carlos is Spain's own royal child; her monarch, the truest lover of the Spanish people—the one refuge for this troubled and distracted, but much loved fatherland; a brave Christian, and one who glories in the Name that is above every name, the Name of Jesus. Sir, I am a simple Englishman who write, but I trust I am a Christian too, and my heart fills with gratitude as I say King Carlos lives. May many thousand English voices soon join the chorus of rejoicing Spain, as in triumph, through the streets of Madrid, "the People" escort their well-nigh worshipped King—long an exile—their own, own Spanish Christian King to the Throne of Spain, whose foundation will be relaid in his people's hearts as they shout aloud "Viva el Rey! Viva el Rey!"

And his beautiful, pure, and gallant Queen, the Donna Marguerite, will create a furore in Spanish hearts, as the people gaze on their lovely and youthful monarchs—at last restored to their rights: their own Spanish King, their lawful King—their only King—the chivalrous young patriot—the warrior youth, crowned in thoir midst with manly beauty, by loyalty and right. As far as my means have permitted me, I have sent gladly my mite to the London League, 178, Strand, London, and hope to send more for the Carlist Committee soon. I will do what I can as a Christian, by my alms and prayers; as a European, by my power to influence others in the cause. The cause of His Majesty Don Carlos is the cause of Christianity and the cause of Europe too. May God save King Carlos VII., and bless his efforts for Europe's good and the preservation of the Christian religion!

A British Citizen

March 19, 1873, Page 189

THE CARLIST COMMITTEE, No. 16, Northumberland

Street, Strand, W.C., (LEGITIMIST LEAGUE OFFICES.)

The friends of Charlos VII., and Legitimacy, and those who desire the re-eatabilshment of Order and Monarchy in Spain, are earnestly requested to forward additional subscriptions to the Hon. Secretary, COLONEL E. C. STUART. Acknowledgements by Post.

The Church Herald, November 11, 1874, Page 668

We are requested to state, that a Royal order has been issued, dissolving all connection of the recently-formed "English Carlist Committee" and of its president, Sir Gilbert Campbell, with the Carlist cause. The old Carlist Committee of London is therefore the sole organization in England authorized to represent King Charles VII.

--end

Obit for Col. Stuart's relative:

New York Times, October 13, 1873, link

COUNT DE LANCASTRO ET D'ALBANIE



Some items about Sir Gilbert's bankruptcy:

The Accountant, May 20, 1876, Page 12

CREDITORS' MEETINGS.

At the Bankruptcy Court, a meeting was held for the proof of debts and the choice of a trustee to the estate of Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, Bart., who was adjudged a bankrupt in April, upon the petition of B. W. Jeweller, of Oxford-street. The bankrupt was the president of the English Carlist Committee. The statement of affairs shows—debt, £1,200, against assets £800. The bankrupt was not in attendance, and several creditors being desirous of examining him, the meeting was adjourned for a fortnight.


May 27, 1876, Page 9

(Before Mr. Registrar Pepys.)

IN RE SIR G. E. CAMPBELL.

Adjourned first meeting—Accounts presented.

An adjourned first meeting was held under an adjudication made against Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, when several proofs of debt were admitted, and Mr. Browne, 25 Old Jewry, and Mr. Patey, London-wall, accountants, were appointed trustees to act with a committee of inspection. Tho accounts presented by the bankrupt returned unsecured debts, £1,290; debts fully secured, £6,000; and assets, £800. It is stated that the bankrupt, who is described as of Ladbroke-grove-road, Notting-hill, has acted as President of the English Carlist Committee.

July 15, 1876, Page 12

IN RE SIR J. [sic] E. CAMPBELL.

Adjourned public examination—Production of deeds—Examination passed.

This was a sitting for the adjourned public examination of Sir J.[sic] E. Campbell, who is described as of the Ladbroke Grove-road, Notting-hill, and who was adjudicated in April last. Mr. Lumley, on behalf of the trustees, said that the sitting was adjourned on the former occasion for the production of certain deeds omitted from the statement of affairs. Copies of the deeds had been handed over, and it was found that one related to a sum of £20,000 settled at the time he was insolvent, another settled a sum of £1,400 in Russian Stock, and two others related to some rentals accruing from estates in Ireland. No blame, however, was attached to the bankrupt, as it had been found that the deeds were accidentally omitted from the statement. The learned Registrar said that there was no necessity to adjourn the matter further. The bankrupt could amend his statement of affairs, and then pass his public examination. The additions having been made, the bankrupt was allowed to pass. The statement of affairs shows liabilities £4,843, against assets £850. The bankrupt was the president of the English Carlist Committee.

[TradeName]

Not in Kansas Anymore

Prince Goldenblade: A Rational Fairy Tale for Big and Little Folks (London: Ward, Lock, 1889), link

by Sir Gilbert Campbell

Illustrated by R. André



Prince Goldenblade is exactly the sort of children's book who would expect from a worldly, slightly shady nobleman who had once found himself in arrears. The prince is on a quest to liberate his three brothers-in-law from the thrall of the Grand Old Magician, Alcofribas Trismegistus, who manages to simultaneously be a stereotypical moneylender, a socialist rabble rouser and a stand-in for Mr. Gladstone. Throw in a gorilla coachman who speaks in a minstrel show dialect and water fairies of dubious virtue, and you have something to offend every sensibility.

The name "Alocfribas" seems to derive from an anagrammatic pseudonym used by François Rabelais. Make of that what thou wilt.

The prince's ultimate fate: "Goldenblade never went out again in search of adventure, but utilized his experience by writing tales for boys' papers, which were highly successful, and brought him in an enormous revenue." (Page 158)

A contemporary review:

The Theater: A Monthly Review and Magazine, February 1, 1890, Page 124

"Prince Goldenblade," by Sir Gilbert Campbell. (London: Ward, Lock, and Co.)

This is a fairy tale of the modern school, brightly and frolicsomely written, and just of a length to keep the young mind engaged throughout and to satisfy the adult palate. It is nicely produced, and has a few well-executed illustrations to break up its pages agreeably.

[Mayerling]

Some announcements about the Legitimist League and the Carlist Committees:


Some items about Sir Gilbert's bankruptcy:

The Accountant, May 20, 1876, Page 12

CREDITORS' MEETINGS.

At the Bankruptcy Court, a meeting was held for the proof of debts and the choice of a trustee to the estate of Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, Bart., who was adjudged a bankrupt in April, upon the petition of B. W. Jeweller, of Oxford-street. The bankrupt was the president of the English Carlist Committee. The statement of affairs shows—debt, £1,200, against assets £800. The bankrupt was not in attendance, and several creditors being desirous of examining him, the meeting was adjourned for a fortnight.


May 27, 1876, Page 9

(Before Mr. Registrar Pepys.)

IN RE SIR G. E. CAMPBELL.

Adjourned first meeting—Accounts presented.

An adjourned first meeting was held under an adjudication made against Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, when several proofs of debt were admitted, and Mr. Browne, 25 Old Jewry, and Mr. Patey, London-wall, accountants, were appointed trustees to act with a committee of inspection. Tho accounts presented by the bankrupt returned unsecured debts, £1,290; debts fully secured, £6,000; and assets, £800. It is stated that the bankrupt, who is described as of Ladbroke-grove-road, Notting-hill, has acted as President of the English Carlist Committee.

July 15, 1876, Page 12

IN RE SIR J. [sic] E. CAMPBELL.

Adjourned public examination—Production of deeds—Examination passed.

This was a sitting for the adjourned public examination of Sir J.[sic] E. Campbell, who is described as of the Ladbroke Grove-road, Notting-hill, and who was adjudicated in April last. Mr. Lumley, on behalf of the trustees, said that the sitting was adjourned on the former occasion for the production of certain deeds omitted from the statement of affairs. Copies of the deeds had been handed over, and it was found that one related to a sum of £20,000 settled at the time he was insolvent, another settled a sum of £1,400 in Russian Stock, and two others related to some rentals accruing from estates in Ireland. No blame, however, was attached to the bankrupt, as it had been found that the deeds were accidentally omitted from the statement. The learned Registrar said that there was no necessity to adjourn the matter further. The bankrupt could amend his statement of affairs, and then pass his public examination. The additions having been made, the bankrupt was allowed to pass. The statement of affairs shows liabilities £4,843, against assets £850. The bankrupt was the president of the English Carlist Committee.

I just wonder if the Mr. Lumley mentioned as the spokesperson for the trustees is the Lumley who was involved in theatrical productions, etc. and was a party in the Victorian contract of Lumley v. Gye (Gye was a theater impressario). The Lumley is (as far as I know) not a common one.

Jeff

[TradeName]

Found this which further identifies Lumley:

THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 1, 18778 [sic; 1878], Page 48

In the London Bankruptcy Court.

In the Matter of Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, of No. 117,
Ladbroke-grove-road, Netting Hill, in tbe county of Middlesex,
Baronet, adjudicated a Bankrupt on the 27th day
of April, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a General Meeting of the
Creditors of the above-named bankrupt is hereby
summoned to be held at the offices of Messrs. Lumley and
Lumley, No. 22, Conduit-street, Bond-street, in the county
of Middlesex, on Thursday, the 17th day of January, 1878,
at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of accepting
the resignation of Henry Home Patey, of 90, London-wall,
in the city of London, Accountant, at present one of the
Trustees of the property of the above-named bankrupt, and
for appointing William Lewis Clifton Browne, the remaining
Trustee, to be the sole Trustee of the property of the above named
bankrupt.—Dated this 21st day of December, 1877.

LUMLEY and LUMLEY, 22, Conduit-street, Bondstreet,
W., and 15, Old Jewry-chambers, B.C., Solicitors
for the Trustees.

--end

Possibly one of these guys:

The Weekly Notes, Volume 34, Oct 21, 1899, Page 310

PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Louis Charles Lumley, Walter Lumley, Theodore Lumley, Claude Basil Lumley, and Frank Brinsley Harper (Lumley & Lumley), Solicitors, 15 Old Jewry Chambers, London, Paris, and Bordeaux, as from October 11, so far as regards the said Claude Basil Lumley.

Louis Charles Lumley, Walter Lumley, Theodore Lumley, and Claude Basil Lumley (Lumley & Lumley), Solicitors, 37 Conduit Street, Bond Street, London, Paris, and Bordeaux, as from October 11, so far as regards the said Claude Basil Lumley.

--end

BTW, I noticed that Campbell's bankruptcy dragged on until 1890 at least:

THE LONDON GAZETTE, DECEMBER 16, 1890, Page 7078

The Bankruptcy Act, 1869.

In the London Bankruptcy Court.
In the Matter of Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, of No.
117, Ladbroke Grove-road, Netting Hill, in the county
of Middlesex, a Baronet, adjudicated bankrupt on the
27th day of April, 1876.

WHEREAS the notice of declaration of a Second
and Final Dividend of 1s. 6d. in the pound was
not duly inserted in the London Gazette prior to the
payment thereof, notice is hereby given, that any creditors
who have not received such Dividend shall apply
for the same at the offices of Messrs. Good, Son, and Co.,
No. 67, Moorgate-street, on or before the 31st day of
December instant.—Dated this 12th day of December,
1890.

B. P. DANIELS, Trustee.

[TradeName]

Beeton's Christmas Annual

Sir Gilbert Campbell got the Beeton's Christmas Annual gig after Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.

The Athenæum, November 26, 1887, Page 697



The Publishers' Circular, November 1, 1888, Page 1374




The Literary World, Volume 40, December 13, 1889, Page 504

CHRISTMAS NUMBERS AND ANNUALS

Beeton's Christmas Annual (Ward, Lock, and Co.), contains 'A Wave of Brain Power,' by Sir Gilbert Campbell, and a short musical play 'Minette's Birthday,' by Mr. R. Andre. Speaking of the book as a whole, the latter, though pretty, may be disregarded. The former is a highly sensational, oftentimes gruesome, narrative. Occult forces, exercised by Craddock Lipthwaite alias Revolver, chief dynamitard of a London gang, subject David Acland, a true-hearted young author, to the villain's will, and make him an active agent in a series of crimes. Rhoda Harding, David's betrothed, discovers his misery and exerts her own spiritual and mental powers to combat the will and eventually to triumph over his cruel taskmaster. Human interests are not wholly absent from the working out of the plot, but many of the details are ghastly in the extreme, and more than one passage we wish we had never read.

--end

The Literary World, Volume 44, December 11, 1891, Page 506

he thirty-second issue of Beeton's Christmas Annual (Ward, Lock, and Co.) contains a complete illustrated story, entitled 'The Romance of the Ruby,' by Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart., and also an original musical drawingroom farce, written and illustrated by Mr. R. Andre, called 'Red and Blue,' which deals with the love affairs of representatives of the Army and Navy.

--end

Review of Campbell's translation of a Victor Hugo novel.

The Spectator, Volume 59, January 16, 1886, Page 88

The Outlaw of Iceland. By Victor Hugo. Translated by Sir Gilbert Campbell. (Ward and Downey).—Critics, even competent ones, are not often unanimous; but had this romance been published anonymously, we really believe that the voice of the host would have been as the voice of one man. The literary tasters, one and all, would have declared the story to be far-fetched, exaggerated, and amorphous; improbable and involved, without being exciting; deficient in all, or almost all, the qualities which go to make a satisfying work of art. The name of Victor Hugo on the title-page will, however, convince some of them that somewhere in the work there must be hidden virtues and beauties, and they will forthwith set out in search of them. It would be ungracious not to hope that their quest may be more successful than ours has been; for we must confess that, having travelled wearily from the Dan of the first chapter to the Beersheba of the last, we have found the land altogether barren. None of Hugo's strong points are exemplified, and all his weak points are accentuated into a horrible travesty of his best work. The central figure, a homicidal demon, is happily as unrealisable as he is repulsive, and the involved phantasmsgic story in which he plays his part, should be called not a romance but a nightmare. There is a certain gruesome power in some of the chapters, especially in one which gives a sickening account of the mutilation of a corpse, which is lying in a dead-house; but it is the sort of power which resembles not the serviceable aotivity of health, but the abnormal strength of the feverpatient or the madman. So far as we can judge without having the original before us, we should think that Sir Gilbert Campbell has accomplished well his task of translation. To the question whether the task was worth undertaking, the foregoing sentences will provide au answer.

[TradeName]

Campbell in a listing of converts to Catholicism:

Converts to Rome (London: Sonnenschien, 1884), Page 6
by William James Gordon Gorman

Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, Bart., Knight - Commander of the Orders of Isabella the Catholic and Charles III. of Spain, and of the Holy Sepulchre.



Brief summary of military career:

THE NEW ARMY LIST AND INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE LIST (London: Murray, 1871), Page 480
By COLONEL H. G. HART

War Services of the Officers of the Militia

Tower Hamlets

Sir Gilbert Campbell served with the 92nd Highlanders during the suppression of the Indian Mutiny in 1858-59, and was present with the column under Sir John Michel in the actions of Rajghur, Mongrowlee, Sindawaho, and Korrai; and with the Camel Corps attached to Colonel Somerset's flying column at Burode (Medal).


Freemason's Magazine and Masonic Mirror, November 12, 1870, Page 396

Mark Masonry

Bon Accord Lodge Of Mark Masters.—The regular meeting of this lodge was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Wednesday, the 2nd ult. [...] Bro. Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart., was advanced to the honourable degree of Mark Master. [...]


The Bard of Avon lodge: Of United Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England (1872), Pages 25-26
by Joseph Charles Parkinson

MINUTE, 27th APRIL 1872.

The Secretary reported that, 'in pursuance of the Resolution passed at the last Lodge, he had had an interview with Lord Leigh, the Provincial Grand Master, and obtained his sanction to the removal of the Lodge to Staines.'

The following brethren were then elected joining members of the Lodge:

Brother Sir Gilbert Edward Campbell, Bart., Tuscan Lodge No. 14, 27 Westmoreland-place, Bayswater, Middlesex, W.

Brother George Elliot, M.P., Prince of Wales' Lodge No. 259, 1 Parkstreet, Park-lane, and Carlton Club.

[...]


Debrett's Baronetage and Knightage (London: Dean & Son, 1879), Page 75

[Mayerling]

Lord Leigh, the Grand Master?

I was just wondering if the Masonic Grand Master, Lord Leigh, mentioned with respect to advancing Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart to "Mark Master" is possibly the artist (and I believe head of the British Academy until his death in 1896, Frederick, Lord Leigh.

Jeff

[TradeName]

It looks like the Masonic Lord Leigh was named William Henry:

The Annual Register (London: Longmans, 1906), Volume 147, Page 145

Obituary

On the 21st [of October, 1905], William Henry Leigh, second Lord Leigh, b. 1824, eldest s. of the first baron. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge. Succeeded to the title, 1850. Was an excellent landlord on all his estates in Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Cheshire and Staffordshire. Was a leading Freemason, holding the record for length of service as a Provincial Grand Master. Took an active part in all county work in Warwickshire. M., 1848, Caroline Amelia, dau. of second Marquess of Westminster.

[Mayerling]

The identity of Lord Leigh

Thank you for checking it out.

Jeff

[TradeName]

Back to Africa; plus Rider Haggard

Notices about a novel inspired by the Whitechapel Murders:

The Publishers Weekly, April 18, 1891, Page 576

Ward & Downey, London, have just published a new story by W. Westall, entitled "Back to Africa." Mr. Westall has also just completed, in conjunction with Stepniak, a translation of Korolenko's "In Two Moods," which Ward & Downey will publish this month.


The Review of Reviews, June 1891, Page 629

The New Books of the Month

Westall, William. Back to Africa. (Ward and Downey.) 8vo. Paper. Pp. 160. Price 1s. A sensational novel, based on the atrocities said to have been committed by some portions of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, and on the Whitechapel murders.



A capsule review which gives away the whole plot:

The Literary World, May 1, 1891, Page 407

In Back to Africa, by William Westall, the Rearguard scandal and the Whitechapel horrors have both been freely drawn upon, and the whole has been worked up into a piece of thoroughly inartistic fiction. The reader, however, may sup his full of horrors if he wills. The story is told by the wife of a retired African explorer, who has acquired murderous propensities in the Dark Continent, which he indulges in Whitechapel. His wife follows and detects him, and, thinking to find a more suitable field for the exercise of his powers than London, packs him back to Africa, there to murder as many natives as he will. After this, we are not surprised to hear that, in spite of his occasional aberrations, she still continued to regard him as the ideal husband to whom she had plighted her troth.


Bio of Westall:

Dictionary of National Biography: Neil-Young (New York: Macmillan, 1912), Pages 634-635
edited by Sir Sidney Lee

WESTALL, WILLIAM [BURY] (1834-1903), novelist and journalist, born on 7 Feb. 1834 at White Ash, near Blackburn, in Lancashire, was eldest son of John Westall, a cotton spinner of White Ash, by his wife Ann, daughter of James Bury Entwistle. Richard Westall the painter [q. v.] belonged to the same stock. After being educated at the Liverpool high school, Westall engaged in his father's cotton-spinning business. But about 1870 he retired, lived much abroad, and devoted himself to journalism. While at Dresden he sent articles to 'The Times' and ' Spectator,' and moving to Geneva in 1874 acted as foreign correspondent both to ' The Times' and the ' Daily News,' besides editing the 'Swiss Times,' of which he became part proprietor. His first book,' Tales and Traditions of Saxony and Lusatia,' appeared in 1877, but his earliest success in fiction, 'The Old Factory,' a story of Lancashire life with strong local colouring, was issued in 1881. His later novel, 'Her Two Millions' (1897), amusingly depicts the conditions of Anglo-continental journalism in Geneva, where Westall became, acquainted with Russian revolutionaries, particularly with Prince Kropotkin and with S. Stepniak (i.e. Sergyei Mikhailowitch Kravchinsky). He persuaded the latter to settle in London, and collaborated with him in translations of contemporary Russian literature, and of Stepniak's book on the aims of reform, 'Russia under the Czars' (1885). Westall was long a prolific writer of novels, drawing freely on his experiences alike in Lancashire and on the continent and further afield. He extended his travels to North and South America and to the West Indies, but finally returned to England, making his residence in Worthing.

He died at Heathfield, Sussex, on 9 Sept. 1903, and was buried there. He had just completed his latest novel, 'Dr. Wynne's Revenge.'

Westall was married twice: (1) on 13 March 1855 to Ellen Ann, second daughter of Christopher Wood of Silverdale, Lancashire, by whom he had two sons and one daughter; and (2) at Neuchàtel on 2 Aug. 1863, to her elder sister Alicia, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.

A portrait—a bad likeness—belongs to Westall's daughter, Mrs. Chadwick, Clyde House, Heaton Chapel. A large photograph hangs in the Whitefriars Club.

Westall's numerous novels, which are of old-fashioned type, mainly dependent on incident and description, comprise, besides those mentioned: 1. 'Larry Lohengrin,' 1881 (another edition, 'John Brown and Larry Lohengrin,'1889). 2. 'The Phantom City,' 1886. 3. 'A Fair Crusader,' 1888. 4. 'Roy of Roy's Court,' 1892. 5. 'The Witch's Curse,'1893. 6. 'As a Man sows,' 1894. 7. 'Sons of Belial,' 1895. 8. 'With the Red Eagle,' 1897. 9. 'Don or Devil,' 1901. 10. 'The Old Bank,' 1902.

(The Times, 12 Sept. 1903; T. P.'s Weekly, 18 Sept. 1903; Who's Who, 1903; Brit. Mus. Cat.; private information.)


Article about Stepniak:


Belford's Magazine, Volume 6, February, 1891, Pages 447-456
edited by Donn Piatt

Stepniak

by Roman Zulof


Speaking at a dinner in his honor in 1895, Rider Haggard said a "literary man" had accused him of being JtR:

Current Opinion, Volume 18, August, 1895, Pages 103-104

Rider Haggard in Reminiscent Mood

Rider Haggard, a reading from whose novel, Heart of the World, appears on another page, was feted recently at the Authors' Club, London. In the course of a response to a toast to his health, proposed by Sir Walter Besant, he said several things as to the profession of authorship that are worth reproduction. "I have been subjected to considerable attacks in my time, I may say very bitter attacks. For example, gentlemen, I remember a literary man writing to me, not merely accusing me of being the instigator of the crimes committed by another gentleman,—Jack the Ripper,—but of actually perpetrating them. Criticism we expect; but why, if a man writes a novel more or less successful, should he be accused of the crimes attributed, perhaps falsely, to the Ripper? Another gentleman, who did not go quite so far as that, stopped at plagiarism; everything I have written he has found somewhere else. I have no doubt that at this stage of the world it is very easy to find an original for everything. I thought that in She I had given the world something fairly new—if old—but not a bit. Do you remember a writer called Homer? He had a lady living in a cave that was the prototype of She.

"If I had time I could say something interesting, not about plagiarism; you, as experts, know that that is all bosh; but about literary coincidences. There is some faculty of the brain that exercises a mysterious foresight. I could tell you some very odd things which have happened to me in confidence. Most of my humble efforts about the dark continent I have invented at large and freely all round. I am astonished, almost dismayed, when I find books of travel sustaining what I have invented. In King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermain are things which I evolved out of my turbid imagination which have been verified since, why, I know not. I never had the slightest conception that they would be duplicated in fact. One instance will suffice. When I was going to write Allan Quartermain I took the map and hit upon a spot then unknown. I located a mission station there, had it attacked and all its occupants killed. Three years later some religious body went and fixed a mission there, and all its occupants were killed—a most unpleasant coincidence. I could give a dozen other instances of the kind, but I must content myself with this one: A year or two ago I wrote a book of romance for boys, The People of the Mist; in it I picked out a spot in Africa, and made a land company take it up—at present I am the director of a company which has taken up that actual spot. From all the reports that I can learn, brought down from natives, my description was essentially accurate."

Sir Walter Besant left no doubt in the minds of his hearers as to his own opinion of Mr. Haggard. "I don't say that the masses are always right, but in the long run they always are. I made inquiries at representative free libraries to find out who were the favorite authors. They seem to be Scott, Marryat and Dickens among the dead authors. Scott certainly first, and Marryat, I think, before Dickens. Among living authors our friend Rider Haggard is unquestionably first. I find two very remarkable qualities in Mr. Haggard's novels—a power of imagination in which, for audacity and strength, he is unequaled since the Elizabethan dramatists. I have been glancing through his books again to-day, and I do not think that this is too strong a thing to say; secondly, there is the mesmeric influence which he exercises over readers."


Portion of another account of the dinner which quotes lines by J. K. Stephen:

The Literary World, Volume 51, May 21, 1895, Pages 515-516

THE 'HAGGARD' DINNER.

Mr. Rider Haggard was entertained as the guest of the evening at the Authors' Club on Monday, Sir Walter Besant presiding. In introducing Mr. Haggard, the friend and champion of authors referred to the treatment that gentleman had received from the critics. These he divided into four classes. First, there were the prophets, whom subsequent events proved to be false in their forecast of an early collapse. (Possibly Sir Walter had in mind J. K. S.'s now familiar lines: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling, And the Haggards ride no more.) [...]


This thread mentions that Haggard passed a legal exam in 1884 at the same time as Montague Druitt.

[TradeName]

Tales Of Frankenstein (Jack The Ripper)

A television dramatization of the Lees/Howard story by Hammer Films?

http://www.archive.org/details/TalesOfFrankensteinjackTheRipper

[TradeName]

Fwiw

Times, January 15, 1891, Page 14, Column 3

Police

At LAMBETH, ARNOLD READ, described as a surgeon in practice in Portland-street, Walworth, was brought up on a warrant upon a charge of assaulting his wife. The complainant deposed that she had been married to the defendant five years. On Saturday night last she returned home from a theatre, where she had an engagement. The prisoner she found, as was frequently the case, very much the worse for liquor. After supper he took up a cup and a plate and threw them at her. Later on in the bedroom he said, "I will do for you tonight." He sprang upon her and seized her by the throat. She struggled and tried to get away from him. He then caught her by the hair and dragged her back. Her husband then went to bed and fell asleep, and she hastily dressed, made her way out of the house, and went to her mother, with whom she she had since been staying. She had since felt the effects of the violence of the prisoner. He had assaulted her on a previous occasion, and she had summoned him to the court, but had not appeared against him. Medical and other evidence having been given, the magistrate sentenced the prisoner to two months' hard labor, and further directed a judicial separation, the prisoner to pay his wife 10s per week towards her maintenance and that of her child.


The Lancet, March 3, 1888, Page 452

Society Of Apothecaries.—The following gentlemen, having passed the qualifying examination in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, have received certificates entitling them to practise in the same, and have been admitted as Licentiates of the Society:—

[...]

The following gentleman passed the Medical portion of the examination:—

Read, Arnold Edward, St. Thomas's Hospital.



The Law Times, November 18, 1893, Page 378

Thorne v. Thorne

[...]

The plaintiffs were Eleanor Thorne, widow, and her daughter, Eleanor Ann Emily Read, the wife of Arnold Edward Read. The defendants were Robert John Thorne, and the Sun Permanent Benefit Building Society. Robert Thorne, late of No. 8 King William-street, Strand, was, at the time of his death, possessed of two leasehold houses, Noh. 160, and 162, Boyson-road. Walworth.

[...]



THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 7, 1915, Page 4462

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership
heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned,
Arnold Edward Read, of 76, Villa-street,
Walworth, and David McCarrol, of the same address,
carrying on business as Medical Practitioners, at
76, Villa-street, Walworth, under the style or firm of
"READ AND McCARROL," has been dissolved by
mutual consent as and from the thirtieth day of April,
1915. All debts due to and owing by the said late
firm will be received and paid by the said Arnold
Edward Read.—Dated this thirtieth day of April,
1915.
ARNOLD ED. READ.
096 D. McCARROL.

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There are points of similarity between Sir Gilbert Campbell's 1889 werewolf story "The White Wolf of Kostopchin" and the earlier tale of crewman Krantz in Frederick Marryat's 1838 The Phantom Ship. Both involve a mysterious woman who insinuates herself into a motherless, dysfunctional family while a white wolf prowls. In both tales the father has been exiled because of a violent act.

The Phantom Ship (London: Dent, 1896), Pages 357-379
by Frederick Marryat

[Originally published in The New Monthly Magazine 1838-1839]

The Roxburghe Library of Classics (New York: 1904), Volume 18, Page 6064-6093
by The International Bibliophile Society

The White Wolf of Kostopchin
by Sir Gilbert Campbell


I found the reference to the Marryat story here:

The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction (London: Lonngmans, 1880), link
by Edward Yardley