Letters and translations
A French archival inventory lists correspondence from Rothwell in 1897 among letters from translators and translation agencies. By 1910 his work on Schuré was reaching an English-language public. A reviewer in Light considered how Rothwell had handled the imaginative prose of Rama and Moses. The translated book and its reception give two views of his work, one from the title page and one from a contemporary reader.
Schuré in English
A New York edition of Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries credited Rothwell as Schuré’s translator in 1909. Its title page keeps the French author’s name beside his translator’s, a distinction easily lost when the titles are gathered into a series. The surviving credits document sustained work across languages. They tell us considerably less about Rothwell’s childhood, his teachers or how he came to make translation his profession.
