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A biography yes i had wanted to write casement sir roger; but the obstacle is that the government refuse all access to those confiscated diaries from which purported extracts were circulated to influencial people when he was condemned and without them there cannot be a life of him written.... my life? Not too good. The Press were besetting this cottage when I reached it. I went to London for a while: they desisted. I returned: they did. The most exigent of them I banged in the eye, and while he sought a doctor I went off again on my wanderings, seeing the Newspaper Society, and the Photographic Agencies, and Esmond Harmsworth (for thr Newspaper Proprietors Assb.) with tge plea to leave me alone...