Horace N. Pym

Horace N. Pym was a 19th-century English solicitor, book collector, and man of letters. He is especially associated with Memories of Old Friends, the published journal of Caroline Fox, which he edited and helped bring to a wider readership.

He also wrote on literary life in a friendly, conversational way, including Chats in the Book-Room. That background as both collector and editor gives his writing an appealing mix of curiosity, bookish enthusiasm, and respect for the people and texts he preserved.

The available sources point to a figure remembered less for public celebrity than for his role in literary culture: gathering, shaping, and passing on voices that might otherwise have faded. A reliable portrait image could not be confirmed from the pages available here, so none is included.