Christopher Crayon's Recollections / The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself

A first-person memoir traces childhood in rural East Anglia with accounts of village schooling, chapel life, and local pastimes, then follows a move to college and a subsequent literary and journalistic career in London and elsewhere. The narrator layers personal anecdotes about encounters with public figures, involvement in political campaigns and candidacy, reflections on pulpit culture and mass meetings, observations from time in Wales, and episodes of financial embarrassment. The recollections blend social portraiture, anecdote, and self-reflection to sketch changing manners, institutions, and professional challenges across a long public life.