Imre: A Memorandum

EDITED BY XAVIER MAYNE.
There is a war, a chaos of the mind,
When all its elements convulsed, combined,
Like dark and jarring...
The whole heart exhaled into One Want,
I found the thing I sought, and that was—thee.
The Friendship which is Love—the Love which is Friendship
NAPLES. The English Book-Press: R. RISPOLI, CALATA TRINITÀ MAGGIORE, 53. 1906.
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THIS BOOK IS PRIVATELY PRINTED IN A LIMITED EDITION, OF WHICH THIS COPY IS NUMBER 10
My dear Mayne:
In these pages I give you a chapter out of my life... an episode that at first seemed impossible to write even to you. It has lengthened under my hand, as autobiography is likely to do. My apology is that in setting forth absolute truth in which we ourselves are concerned so deeply, the perspectives, and what painters call the values, are not easily maintained. But I hope not to be tedious to the reader for whom, especially, I have laid open as mysterious and profoundly personal an incident.