Donald Maxwell

I was delighted to see a Donald Maxwell in the window of a bookshop in Howarth, even more so when I stepped through the portal of the establishment of Hatchard and Daughter. Failing in my mission here to copy the style of a writer and artist at the turn of the 20th Century. Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) lived in the village of my birth, Borstal, near Rochester, Kent.
I was even more delighted when the well read bookshop owner, who I took to be "And Daughter" produced another Maxwell to accompany "Travels With a Sketch Book." Until that moment I had not realised that Maxwell was a renowned war artist as well as a, shall I call him, travel writer. I left the establishment two volumes of Maxwell richer and a credit card transaction poorer, failing again to ape the style of my hero and his writing. My dear lady wife brought my attention to a volume in the window of said "Hatchard and Daughter" and, after a breakfast repast, I returned to that esteemed establishement to enquire about "Perambulations with a Parson." To my delight "And Daughter" produced a third Maxwell, but I declined, failing only in my third attempt at the style of the era, as I felt my constitution could take no more excitement that day, my reading would absorb all the rest of my time that week and my bank account would suffer.