Letchford

Letchford was remarkable for his thoughtful look, and his strong sense of beauty.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

Letchford had come to stay with her “for the remembrance of the love her husband bore them.”

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

Singularly enough the night before — that is the terrible Sunday night — Miss Daisy Letchford experienced “a strange instance of telepathy.”

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

Miss Letchford sums up Lady Burton as “a most beautiful and charming woman, with many lovely ideas, but many foolish ones.”

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

And when they talked on military affairs, as Letchford and others did sometimes, it was difficult to keep from sending them all to the devil, for their amateur cocksureness would have riled Job.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

Letchford, the celebrated leader-writer of the Critic.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

Letchford, and God had created him with two left hands.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

I forgot how we drifted into the subject, but I remember he quoted some queer haunting stuff which he said was Swinburne, and verses by people I had heard of from Letchford at Biggleswick.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

Letchford said I had a core of fanaticism in my slow nature, and that I would end by waving the red flag.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

I had been sweating away at the subject and had all the ordinary case at my fingers 'ends, so when I got a chance of speaking I gave them a long harangue, with some good quotations I had cribbed out of the _Vossische Zeitung_, which Letchford lent me.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907