AUTHOR'S POSTSCRIPT
| "The above record closes in the year 1939..." | | Since 1938: "panoramic novel" [The Seasons] | | 1944: stroke & pension, Can. Writers Foundation |
IN SEARCH OF MYSELF -- Page 458
The above record closes in the year 1939. In 1938 the author had to give up farming by doctor's orders. He has since been in ill health which in 1944 resulted in a paralytic stroke.
As for his literary work, after 1938 he was occupied by what he considered apanoramic novel of Canada, entitled The Seasons. Since he is now disabled, there is small hope of his ever completing that novel. There are, however, three or four completed books and between sixty and a hundred short stories, read for the first time in 1945 by anyone outside his family; though a few of them have appeared in quarterlies and daily papers.
He cannot close this note without mentioning that since 1944, the time of his stroke, he has been in receipt of a pension from the Canadian Writers' Foundation. Apart from that, since 1940 he has acted as reader and adviser for The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited.
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F. P. Grove's In Search of Myself
