Excerpt from Port Allington Stories

For those people who, before the War knew my husband's novels and books of travel and for those who, since his death in action on April 9 1917, have got to know his name through his "War Poems and other Verses" published in September 1917, and his "Letters to his Wife" published in November 1917, I do not think any Preface to this collection of short stories is necessary. But as there may be people who will meet his name for the first time in this book, perhaps a few words of introduction and explanation would be interesting.

Robert Ernest Vernède was born in London in 1875. He was of French Huguenot descent on his father's side and Scotch on his mother's side of the family.

He went to St Paul's School, won the Milton Prize in 1893, for an original English Poem, and a classical exhibition at St. John's College, Oxford in the following year. He took Greats in 1898.

When he left Oxford he went back to his home in London and took up writing as a profession. He began by writing articles and short stories in various magazines.

We were married in 1902 and came to live in the country in Hertfordshire.

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