Excerpt from Letters and Papers of John Addington Symonds Symonds was a most voluminous letter-writer. It is always a marvel to me how he found time for so much and such varied correspondence in the midst Of his ceaseless output Of books. The letters to Henry Sidgwick number at least four hundred, and those to myself well over two thousand, besides the stream Of letters he was continually pouring forth to family, friends, artists and students, many Of whom doubtless possess large collections Of Symonds's letters, touching, with his extraordinary versatility and sympathy, on the various topics which mainly occupied their thoughts. Symonds was better in his letters than in his books, and better in his talk than in his letters, but of the latter no record remains save in the memory Of his friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.