Chime of Words: The Letters of Logan Pearsall Smith

by Logan Pearsall Smith

Gathers the letters of the American expatriate writer to relatives, friends, and fellow authors, including Whitman, James, Wharton, Woolf, Shaw, Russell, and Berenson

200 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1984

About the author

Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born essayist and critic, and a notable writer on historical semantics.

Reviews

[David Kuhnlein · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two weeks before Logan's death a friend asked him half-jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning, at least for me, there is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."
-Cyril Connolly
in the New Statesman and Nation,
March 9, 1946