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He didn't want to.

But after he was ruined by a fraudulent bank director, and contracted throat-cancer, he became alarmed at the prospect of dying and leaving his family destitute. So he wrote his memoirs, to give them something to live on.

He only just managed to complete them, as he was dying. They are in fact surprisingly good - much better than you would expect from someone who didn't look as though he had literary talent.

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