MOTT, Edward Spencer.

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A Mingled Yarn. First and only edition of this scarce memoir. Mott (1844-1910), "sometime soldier, actor, stage writer, racing journalist, tipster and loafer was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire... [and] wrote under the name of 'Nathaniel Gubbins'. He is best remembered for his very readable, but often inaccurate, autobiography A Mingled Yarn. Surprisingly, after a life with 'no regard for money', his probated estate was £2,700" (NPG).Mott's colourful book includes, among much else, several chapters on his military service in India from 1862, and his passion for the turf.An online institutional search returns copies at just six locations: British Library, Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, and National Library of South Africa.

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