leeterary

Updated: June 29, 2025

In my early life as it were, my salad days I aspired to becoming what old Simon Cameron called "one of those damned literary fellows" and Thomas Carlyle less profanely described as "a leeterary celeebrity." But some malign fate always sat upon my ambitions in this regard.

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry (Volume 1): An Autobiography

In my early life as it were, my salad days I aspired to becoming what old Simon Cameron called "one of those damned literary fellows" and Thomas Carlyle less profanely described as "a leeterary celeebrity." But some malign fate always sat upon my ambitions in this regard.

Henry Watterson - Marse Henry, Complete: An Autobiography