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Updated: May 29, 2025
"In the midst of the perplexing debates upon the course most advisable with regard to the Constitution after the unfortunate return from Varennes, I sent off my little English amanuensis to Paris to bring me, through the means of another trusty person I had placed about the Queen, the earliest information concerning the situation of affairs.
In addition to many mistakes in spelling and grammar, a number of words were left blank. In a vast number of instances short sentences were run together. Mrs Borrow does not appear to have been a very successful amanuensis at this period. Perhaps the most interesting indication of how much the manuscript, as first submitted, differed from the published work is shown by one of Ford's criticisms:
When you receive a letter from me by the hand of an amanuensis, you may be sure that I have not even a little leisure; when by my own a little. For let me tell you that in regard to causes and trials in court, I have never been closer tied, and that, too, at the most unhealthy season of the year, and in the most oppressively hot weather.
You see this is not my hand-writing My hand must never write more But I would employ the little strength I have, in relating 'the last scene of this eventful history'. My sister is my amanuensis.
You have carte blanche for the trousseau, but your book? will you have time to write it, Charlotte? And that young woman whom I saw in your room yesterday, is she the amanuensis whom you told me about?" "She is the lady whom I hoped to have secured, father, but she is not coming." "Not coming! I rather liked her look, she seemed quite a lady. Did you offer her too small remuneration?
I had been in the habit of stopping a good deal to think, not only about my work, but about other things, but now I did not wish to stop. This amanuensis was very different from any other I had had. The others worked to make money for themselves, or to please me, or because they liked it. This one worked from principle. The money which I paid for her labor did not become her money.
In fact, only De Quincey or Bayard Taylor or Poe could have done justice to the thrilling effects of the drug, and not even they unless an amanuensis had been seated by them to take down what they dictated, for I defy anyone to remember anything but a fraction of the rapid march of changes under its influence.
The signature, written with evident pain, told me that the dictator was my Uncle Thormanby. The "old enemy" was, as I knew, gout. "Miss Battersby is acting as my amanuensis." For the fifth or sixth time in my life I felt sorry for Miss Battersby. "Canon Beresford's girl has libelled eighty or ninety bishops in the most outrageous way.
Spent most of his time smoking in the drawing-room, and laboured under the delusion that, as my amanuensis, he was at liberty to forge my signature to all documents, including cheques. He used my official note-paper to back horses on, and was finally requested to leave, after an unseemly brawl with a book-maker's tout on my doorstep. Number Two. Oxford: a First in Greats.
He sat before the box, opened it and searched, merely to quiet his annoyance for having left those sheets of the fair amanuensis unexamined. They were not discoverable. They had gone. He stood up at the stir of the door. It was she, and she acknowledged his bow; she took her steps to her chair. He was informed that Lord Ormont had an engagement, and he remarked, "I can do the work very well."
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