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...millionaire?was not surprised to find reporters crowding around him on his arrival from England. In his little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a faint curlicue handwriting, which he had recently purchased. These old pages, now bound into heavy leather volumes each stamped with the Scottish crest, were old letters and manuscripts, mostly unpublished, mostly written in the thin legible penmanship of James Boswell...
...long time this cabinet was lost. Then one day James Boswell's great-great-grandson, James Boswell Talbot, Sixth Baron Talbot de Malahide, visited his Scottish estates, the Castle of Auchinleck. Rummaging in a closet, his hand found a peculiar trunklike cabinet, made of a dark and heavy wood. In its drawers and cubbyholes there were a lot of old papers, so soft they made no noise when Lord Talbot shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then...
First, there were 30 pages of the manuscript of the Life. These had not been closed in the ebony trunk, but had, since the death of Boswell, reposed in a Scottish garret where the air was as damp as oatmeal. When Lord Talbot stooped to gather this sheaf of merry memories, the bundle had crumbled in his hand into a little flutter of yellowish flakes. Only 30 pages could be gathered again. These, a gay jumble of antique anecdotes, had been joined and backed with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica...
Unheralded, Count Rilski arrived in London, took the famed Scottish Express north. At Balmoral, Scottish home of King George† and Queen Mary, he descended from the carriage, again King Boris of Bulgaria. For the first time since the War, the British sovereigns entertained the monarch of a onetime enemy state...
...days later, after some good grouse shooting over Scottish moors, King Boris became Count Rilski, returned to London. Arriving there, he took a taxi to his hotel, paid a visit to the legation, which did not even know that he was in England. Then it became known that the incognito monarch was much more interested in collecting butterflies for his remarkable collection in Sofia-a collection given to him by "Foxy" Ferdinand, onetime (1908-18) King of Bulgaria-than he was in discovering a royal bride. And next in his interests were motor cars and steam locomotives, of both...