The Recollections of Sir Henry Dickens, K.C.

Out of Print

Several times I have been asked, in the course of the last few years, when I intended to write my reminiscences.

I have hesitated long before making up my mind to do anything of the kind; for I have found, in my own experience, that while many such books have met with much success, some, on the other hand, have been but lightly passed over; while I have not lost sight of the fact that it might further be urged, in my case, that "when age is in, the wit is out."

These considerations alone were such as "to give me pause," and while I was still in harness, I put the thought aside. But upon my retirement, at the age of 83, from my long, and busy association of over 60 years with the Bar and the Judicial Bench, I began to reconsider the matter.

Having plenty of leisure on my hands, I looked back upon my past career, and as old memories were revived it struck me that there was, after all, much in my life both professional and otherwise, which might prove to be of interest to the general public; and it was this feeling that prompted me, at last, to alter my decision and make the attempt....

H.F.D.

I feel I must add a word to my dearly beloved husband's preface. No more than three weeks before his fatal accident, placig his han upon the manuscript, he said to me with a smile "There now, Iv'e finished the book, and shall not touch it again till I correct the proofs.

Alas that was not to be. Hew was run down and fatally injured by a motor cycle on December 16th and died in St Lukes Hostel on December 21st, 1933....
Marie Dickens