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In the course of my search for information about Gissing,l I asked Arnold Bennett 2 if he had known the man. He replied that he had not done so, but that Wells had, and he advised an approach to Wells. Provided with an introduction, therefore, I made it; but while he was kind, and did not decline to see me, Wells showed that he could not tell me what I wanted to know. Therefore, although I visited his house, and talked with Mrs. Wells, I did not add much to my stock of knowledge; and the book contained little that was not already familiar in Thomas Seccombe’s preface to The House of Cobwebs.
Swinnerton: An Autobiography (London: Hutchinson, 1937) pp. 147–50 177–8, 193–209.
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Swinnerton, F. (1980). Wells as seen by his Friends. In: Hammond, J.R. (eds) H. G. Wells. Interviews & recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04967-7_8
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