The First and Last Work of George Augustus Sala

Title : The First and Last Work of George Augustus Sala  
Author : His Widow
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1898
Page Count : 7
Image Count : 5
Word Count : 4,527
File Size in MB : 3.5
File Type : PDF

"Through the kindness of a friend who possesses the original manuscripts, I am enabled to place before the readers of the Windsor Magazine facsimiles of the handwriting and composition of my husband in the year 1842, as a boy of fourteen, and in 1895, when he was sick unto death, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. The following portion of “Gerald Moreland ; or, The Forged Will” is the very first story extant from his busy pen, and was written and composed in the noisy bustle and confusion of the family playroom during the Christmas holidays so long ago.

George Augustus Sala was the genius of a somewhat remarkable family, and as such he suffered considerably in his childhood, since — for the amusement of his brothers and sisters — he was supposed, vulgarly speaking, to be able to “turn on the tap” at all times and seasons for the outward expression of the varied thoughts and ideas seething within him, just as in the afternoon and evening of his life he was..."