From this time forward his financial position became precarious. The amount of his savings grew less and less, and his earnings were not large. Besides beginning to edit his hospital memoranda for publication, he wrote for the papers and magazines whenever his head allowed him to do so; and in England, as well as at home, there was still some demand for his book. But even the scanty sales-money did not always reach him, being retained by more than one agent who regarded the author’s life as practically at an end.[556]
FOOTNOTES:
[528] Camden, viii., 238-40; Calamus, 86.
[529] Bucke, 46; In re, 73.
[530] Camden, ix., 200.
[531] In re, 79.
[532] In re, 89.
[533] Calamus, 99; Bucke, 46.
[534] Comp. Prose, 272.
[535] Comp. Prose, 274 n.