Letter from S.R. Crockett to Wellwood

Letter from S.R. Crockett to Wellwood

LETTER

S.R. Crockett

Read poor lad's Seaside Idylls; introduction fitting and graceful but would be better with more Wellwood and less quotation (long Arnold passage and sermon); sketches just sketches - fail when try to be stories, admirable as transcripts, simplest are best; Jane Anne his choice, right throughout with admirable end; Wooing and Wedding also true and rightly felt except paragraph tumbling newlyweds from bed (true but artistic mistake); Helen Macleod in Willie's Sweetheart as good as possible, worthy of Barrie - better as Barrie doesn't have right feeling for love in girl's heart (always humorous to him, never is when girl means it); dislikes Jock's conversation and resents last paragraph killing Jock (should be left well and vigorous with Dexterous more dexter than ever); agrees with Garfield dying at Elberon who sent Black message: Don't write any more Macleods of Dare, there is enough tragedy in the world; delightsome to see other night, wishes saw more of one another; deep in Black Douglas though Sunday

1898-06-18

literary critique, Seaside Idylls, Wellwood, introduction, Jane Anne, Willie's Sweetheart, Barrie comparison, de mortuis, sketches, young writer

SRC_1898_406

Wellwood (Well, Dear Man of Drainie), Barrie (mentioned), Black (mentioned), Garfield (mentioned)

English

The Club House

https://srcrockett.scot/LETTERS/1898/SRC_Wellwood_18Jun_1898.pdf