The Welsh Weekly News (17th April1909) tells a tragic tale. Russell Kerr Gay, a 31 year-old former fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, shot himself with a pistol upon finishing his long-awaited translation of a ‘treatise of Aristotle’. The article recalls, ‘On Saturday night when he dined with the senior dean, he told the latter that he hoped to finish it that night. The morning after, Gay took a 25 mile walk and his notes reveal that he had completed the translation at 9.50pm on Sunday. By Monday morning he was dead, found with a pistol at his side. His father received a letter on Sunday in which the deceased said that ‘he had worked himself almost to a standstill.’