Baldwin, the parachutist, is credited with having made £BO,OOO in the two and * half years in which he gave exhibitions. Mr Edwin Da Leon, a citizen of thnUnlt*d States, who, having seen uiueb, tut uoW written his reminiscences, says oi Thackeray! —“ His habit of composition was methodical, I witnessed much of his work on Philip on His Way Through the World, and remember' bis telling me, with a serio comic earnestness, ol the necessity he was under of spinning ont more chapters, because it was necessary to put another story on his bouse at Keuaington Gardens, and Philip must do the job. On that occasion he said to m>>, 1 Do you know that both Dickens and myself an imposing on the public, for wo have worked our vaiui very much, and dig ont moraj dross Utaa ore. "||
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 553, 6 January 1891, Page 2
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138Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 553, 6 January 1891, Page 2
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