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Autograph Letter Signed ‘S.Smiles’, to F.Martin, thanking him for the number of ‘Welcome’, “writing hard like yourself” despite health problems which limit his writing time, describing his writing routine. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine, neatly tipped along left edge to part album page. Afton House, St. Andrews, N.B., 17 August 1880. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), Scottish author and social reformer, author of Self-Help. “I do not, as I once did, get up at night, and record a sentence or an observation, lest I should lose it in the morning. But that has been the way of many authors.”