LE GALLIENNE, Richard and Robinson K. Leather.
The Student and the Body-Snatcher and Other Trifles.
Whttington-Egan believes that Leather was the original of the character George Muncaster in Le Gallienne’s Book-Bills of Narcisuss. His friendship with Le Gallienne has a sentimental back-story: although Leather had gone to the same school as Le Gallienne he did so later, and it wasn’t until they had a chance encounter in an hotel in Tewkesbury (prompted by Le Gallienne happening on Leather’s edition of Whitman) that the two became friends. The friendship was as short as it was deep, however, as Leather declined, victim of a condition that may have been multiple sclerosis. He was to live until 1895, but was already very poorly by the publication of this volume, a publication which was organised by Le Gallienne as an act of kindness. Nelson, BH, 1890.12/14. Spine a little faded and some slight staining to the binding.
