He also received requests from the sons and grandsons of the revolutionary leaders to provide information about events and the authorship of documents.
Lupton explained that working on a typewriter gives a satisfying sound, a feeling of authentic authorship. No one can spy on you and there are no distractions.
Then Carnegie, who had practically retired from active life, again arrayed himself in his shirt-sleeves, abandoned his career of authorship, and resumed his early trade.
Marriage, like religion and erudition, nay, like authorship itself, was fated to become an outward requirement, and Edward Casaubon was bent on fulfilling unimpeachably all requirements.