My Father as I Recall Him

The daughter offers a personal recollection of her father’s private life and habits, portraying him as devoted to home and family, fond of children and animals, meticulous and punctual, and intensely attached to familiar places such as Gad’s Hill. She recounts household scenes—Christmas and New Year celebrations, writing routines and rooms, his affectionate regard for his fictional characters, sporting pastimes, pets, an American lecture tour, a later railroad accident, and the closing days and burial—blending anecdotes about his hospitality, creative process, and domestic routines into a concise familial portrait.