"Gottingen University Journal" August 1833 Headline "To Stendal's Bismarck"
Author: Arthur Hastings
From a young age, I loved to learn. But being born as a laborer's child in the rural area of York, with a poor family and deceased parents, I couldn't access books, only frequently borrowing from households in York with collections, copying them by hand, and returning them by the agreed date. When the weather was severely cold, the ink I made from charcoal would freeze into solid ice, my fingers unable to bend, yet I never relaxed in copying books. Upon finishing, I promptly returned the books, not daring to exceed the agreed deadline.