“After all, the title Sylvan Secrets does not necessarily signify that…” — Maurice Thompson

“After all, the title Sylvan Secrets does not necessarily signify that the Secrets are explained; they may be merely catalogued as precious mysteries, valuable for the very qualities which render them insoluble.”

Mystery kept as a good rather than a problem to be solved · Preface, Sylvan Secrets

Maurice Thompson

About Maurice Thompson

9 September 1844–15 February 1901

James Maurice Thompson arrived in this world on September 9, 1844, in the modest hamlet of Fairfield, Indiana, nestled within Franklin County, where his father served as a Baptist minister. The boy who would grow into one of the most versatile literary figures of the late nineteenth century spent his earliest years in…

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