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Monthly Bundle Sample, Leather or Prunella 9, October 1999, p.4 
Dunne spent most of his long years in Santa Fe as a journalist and
newspaper columnist. His most notable published work was probably
Cured: The Seventy Adventures of a Dyspeptic
(1914; reprinted, 1937), with a foreword by H. G. Wells, a close
friend of Gissing who had also met Dunne in Italy. Dunne spent
many of his later years at work on the massive manuscript
They All Came to Santa Fe,
an account of all the illustrious people he had met over his long
journalistic career. He liked to recount his refusal of Prince
Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern's offer to write Nazi propaganda for
American, English and Irish newspapers and his adventures with
Nordhoff and Hall in Tahiti in 1919-20. We certainly can be
grateful for the memoirs of George Gissing which he has left to us,
now first published by Ohio University Press; and it will be well
if we can confirm that he was also an early participant in our
hobby of amateur journalism. It's curious to note that his father
Edmund Dunne owed his judicial appointment to President Ulysses S.
Grant, also connected with our hobby on account of his buying a
hand-press for his son Jesse Root Grant (although, so far as I
know, there is no account of young Grant's using the press to
publish an amateur newspaper). Ajay is renowned for its long
memory; so I am left to ask my readers, which one of you has a file
of Brian Ború Dunne's
The Toy
in his or her closet?
SWOPPER'S COLUMN ME: Owner of a beautiful bound volume of St. Nicholas Magazine (vol. IX part II May-October 1882) containing at pp. 717-727 Harlan H. Ballard's illustrated article on "Amateur Newspapers" (June 1882) which was so pivotal in recruitment to the hobby following its publication. This volume is beautifully bound in marbled cloth with marbled endpapers and leather on the spine and corners and red glued labels on the spine. Very little rubbing or wear is apparent and the volume is full of glorious nineteenth-century illustration. I found this volume in a used bookstore in Cincinnati, Ohio. YOU: Owner of one of the bound volumes of The Fossil. Through the generosity of an amateur friend, I own the 1934-44, 1945-51, 1951-57 and 1957-62 volumes. I would like to trade for one of the six volumes antedating 1934 or the 1962-67 volume (if published). Would also consider trading for an file of at least thirty issues of The Fossil antedating 1934. OBJECT: Exchange.
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