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Title: The life and letters of Sir John Henniker Heaton bt.
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Rose Henniker
Subjects: Heaton, John Henniker, Sir, bart., 1848-1914 Postal service
Publisher: London, John Lane New York, John Lane Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ed by the latter in 1911. Asits name suggests, the Club provides a centre wherevisitors from oversea-dominions may meet in thefriendly atmosphere of the great chess republic. In going through H. H.s papers a surprising numberof telegrams were found written in the vernacular.His election to Canterbury was hailed by his chess-playing friends in the House Noble move. When, in 1908, H. H. started his crusade for penny-a-word telegrams throughout the Empire Sir JohnRandies wrote : My dear Henniker Heaton, In chess an infinite number of moves andcombinations are possible. The bold far-seeing player 56 SIR JOHN HENNIKER HEATON finds new combinations and is rewarded when he criescheck followed by mate. You have done much and played a great pawngame in development of the International penny post,when you fairly cried Check/ Bring out all yourpieces, you will need them, and may you see the timewhen telegrams a penny a word the wide world overwill enable you in more senses than one to cry Mate.*
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CHAPTER V AS A TRAVELLER I. By Land WHEN the Duke of Wellington was askedhis opinion of the English climate he isreported to have said : For six monthsin the year the English climate is the bestin the world, and for the other six Tm damned if Iknow a better/ This was a very favourite quotation of H. H/s,and he could speak with some authority, having triedthe climate of most countries in the world. Althoughhe thought so highly of the health-giving propertiesof the English air, the fact remains that he neverwillingly spent a winter in England if he could possiblybe anywhere else. His friends accused him of Spend-ing his week-ends in Japan —a not unfair commenton his meteor-like journeys across the world. H. H. and Lady Heat on, who shared a devoted loveof the sea, spent a good deal of time on the Sussex coast.The gorse country round Bexhill and the picturesqueold Sussex villages added greatly to the affection theyhad for the neighbourhood. The crystal-clear air andthe invigorating bre

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