4. Endless requests for autographs.
5. Innumerable begging letters.
6. Imperative, sometimes threatening, demands for “interviews.”
7. Hundreds of love-letters.
8. Continual offers of marriage.
9. Shoals of MSS. sent by literary aspirants to be “placed” or “recommended.”
10. Free circulation of lies, caricatures, and slanders concerning oneself, one’s personality, friends, ways of work, and general surroundings.
11. The grudging and bitter animosity of rival contemporaries.
12. Persistent public and private mis-representation of one’s character, aims, and intentions.