THE UPTON LETTERS



By ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON

aedae muri' eseidon oneirata, koudepo aos.

1905






PREFACE





These letters were returned to me, shortly after the death of the
friend to whom they were written, by his widow. It seems that he
had been sorting and destroying letters and papers a few days
before his wholly unexpected end. "We won't destroy these," he had
said to her, holding the bulky packet of my letters in his hand;
"we will keep them together. T---- ought to publish them, and, some
day, I hope he will." This was not, of course, a deliberate
judgement; but his sudden death, a few days later, gives the
unconsidered wish a certain sanctity, and I have determined to obey