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Murray Posh was a tall, fat young man, and was evidently of a very nervous disposition, as he subsequently confessed he would never go in a hansom cab, nor would he enter a four-wheeler until the driver had first got on the box with his reins in his hands. On being introduced, Gowing, with his usual want of tact, said: "Any relation to 'Posh's three-shilling hats'?" Mr.
Thanks to certain readers of the Daily Graphic and to the members of the Omar Khayyam Club, I had a fund in hand for Posh's benefit, and immediately put a stop to his homelessness. Indeed, he knew of this fund, and that he could draw on it at need when he chose. But I believe the old man's heart was broken. He has never been the same man since.
He said to me the other day that he wished his old master were alive now to take such care. Oh dear! Oh dear! To think you should be like this! Oh dear! Oh dear!" And Posh's old eyes will water.
Clement Shorter has been kind enough to do his best to help me. No record can be found. And to clinch matters, Dr. One thing is certain: the person who took advantage of Posh's ignorance will not be able to publish his ill-gotten gains in England so long as any copyright exists in the letters. For no letter of FitzGerald's can be published without the consent of Dr.
Since Posh's letter-writing powers received praise from one so qualified to bestow it, there must have been a falling off from want of practice, or from some other cause, for the old man is readier with his cod lines than with his pen by a very great deal, and it is difficult to believe that he ever wielded the pen of a ready writer.
Howe" were, as I have stated before, the caretakers at Little Grange. "Cowell" was, no doubt, Professor Cowell, though it seems strange that FitzGerald should have mentioned him to Posh without any prefix to his name. That is the last letter in which I can find any reference to Posh, and the last letter in Posh's possession which was written to him.
"P.S. I enclose Posh's letter, and the answer I propose to give to it.
"Posh's one- price hat" was a household word in Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and all the big towns throughout England. Lupin further informed me that Mr. Posh was opening branch establishments at New York, Sydney, and Melbourne, and was negotiating for Kimberley and Johannesburg. I said I was pleased to hear it.
More than one advised him that he should have some better security than a mere partnership understanding, that he should, in fact, insist on having a bill of sale, or mortgage of the Meum and Tuum and her gear to secure the money he had found. Possibly he was swayed by Posh's backwardness in the matter of account.
The Meum and Tuum was a favourite of Posh's and he tried to buy her for himself. But although she had only cost 360 pounds to build in 1867, in 1874 she fetched over 300 pounds, and Posh could not go so high as that. So he made other arrangements, and his fishing interests with FitzGerald were finally ended. One would have thought that there would be no more letters beginning "Dear Posh."
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