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Aet 48. to a venerable London journalist and newspaper editor.

H. W. Massingham had lost the editorship of the Daily Chronicle on 25 November 1899 due to his pro-Boer position. He became a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian from March 1900 to January 1901.

Stead persuaded George Moore to withhold Maurice’s second article from the Manchester Guardian. Stead instead published it with Maurice’s first article in a pamphlet: The War in South Africa, 1899-19?, How Not to Make Peace; Evidence as to Homestead Burning Collected and Examined by W. T. Stead (London, December 1900).

For a scholarly account of Stead’s anti-war activities and his publication of Maurice’s “letters” from the front, see Joseph O. Baylen, “George Moore, W. T. Stead, and the Boer War,” Studies in English (1962, Vol. 3).