82 Richard Jefferies. 



Beginners in Literature. By R. Jefferies. Pp. 33. 12mo. 

 Half cloth boards. London : John Snow & Co., "I, Ivy Lane, 

 Paternoster How. Swindon : Alfred Bull, Printer, Victoria 

 Street. N. D. [July, 1873.] Is. Described in British 

 Museum Catalogue as 16mo. 



A handbook in three chapters, the first, on Rejporting, being full of 

 practical hints drawn from personal experience ; the second briefly sketching 

 the general working of a country newspaper office ; and the third laying 

 ■down those mistaken ideas as to authorship and publication which were to 

 •cost him so dearly in after years. 



A copy of this work was sold in 1892 for £3 105. It is extremely scarce. 

 II. 



A Memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts. Compiled 

 from Ancient Records, Registers, and Family Papers. 

 By Richard Jefferies, Coate, Swindon. One vol., pp. 56. Small 

 4to. Blue cloth, lettered (SOBBaiiB on side. N. D. [1873] 

 Is. 6d. [Privately printed by Simmons & Botten, Shoe Lane, 

 E.G.] 



Contents : — Origin. The Senior Branch. The Swindon Branch. Minor 

 Branches. Miscellanies. Pedigrees. Apparition of Edward Avon, Father- 

 in-law of Thomas Goddard, Marlborough. 



A work of no great literary merit, but useful as a basis for some future 

 work on the history of the family. It was very severely handled in the 

 Athenceum. 



Extracts from unpublished letters : — 

 (a) " For some years past I have interested myself more or less in 

 archaeology, and more particularly in the antiquities of my immediate neigh- 

 bourhood, and of course the position occupied by the family of Goddard has 

 often attracted my attention to their antecedents, but beyond what is con- 

 tained in Burke I have not hitherto been successful in my enquiries. . . . 

 If you can .... give me any information .... I shall feel 

 it to be an act of courtesy and kindness on your part .... there are 

 a hundred little facts which are not recorded ia Burke, but which would be 



very interesting to me " — Letter to Rev. F. Goddard, 9th 



September, 1869. 



(J) " You may remember giving me a number of particulars respecting 

 the Goddard family. At the time I did not mention the reason why I wished 



