Tatlow's salary 200 pounds a year on and
from the 1st inst."
Not a very great amount in these extravagant days, perhaps, but in
Ireland, nineteen years ago, it was thought quite a big thing; and it had
the additional charm of being altogether unexpected by its grateful
recipient.
Sir Theodore Martin, though 84 years of age, was full of intellectual and
physical vigour. He was a sound adviser, and enthusiastic in the
amalgamation business. Poet, biographer and translator, he kept up his
intellectuality till the last, and the end of his interesting life did
not come until he reached his 94th year. In 1905 he published a
translation of Leopardi's poems. Between us arose a much greater
intimacy than the ordinary intimacy of business, and his friendship,
through a long series of years, I enjoyed and highly valued.
[Sir Theodore Martin: martin.jpg]
Between the two periods of the Amalgamation control I sandwiched a
delightful holiday, and in the autumn of 1899, after the conclusion of
the great Ballinasloe Fair, travelled east as far as Constantinople. Were
this a book of travel (which it is not) a chapter might be devoted to
that trip.
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