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Roadside meetings / by Hamlin Garland ; decorations by Constance Garland.
LIBRA PS1733 .A45 1930
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940.
- Garland, Hamlin.
- Authors--Biography.
- Authors.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 474 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- [New York] : Printed in the United States of America by the Ferris Printing Company.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Macmillan Company, 1930.
- Summary:
- Author recounts his meetings with Edwin Booth, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt as New York City Police Commissioner, and others.
- Contents:
- The knock on my door
- Dr. Hale and Edwin Booth
- Friends in time of need
- Boston painters and writers
- Lowell, Ingersoll, and Booth
- Meetings with Howells
- James A. and Katharine Herne
- Other plays and players
- Vernacular poets and novelists
- A return to the West
- Walt Whitman old and poor
- The verse of Sidney Lanier
- John Burroughs
- A dinner with Kipling
- The arena and its radicals
- Stephen Crane
- The poet of the Sierras
- In Riley's country
- Eugene Field
- Henry B. Fuller
- The "chap-book" and its writers
- Inspirational pilgrimages
- The story of Ulysses Grant
- Edward MacDowell
- Barrie and I meet Roosevelt
- Old editors and new magazines
- The vanishing legion
- Washington as a meeting place
- Another adventurous interlude
- Joaquin Miller in Chicago
- Another winter in New York
- Kipling returns to America
- Literary pilgrim sons
- Shaw and his neighbors
- American expatriates
- Henry James at Rye
- A glass of old French wine.
- Notes:
- "Set up by Brown Brothers Linotypers"--Verso of title leaf.
- "The purely literary side of my experiences during the last forty-five years."--Page v.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, D 68, pages 516-517
- Other Format:
- Online version: Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940. Roadside meetings.
- OCLC:
- 272091
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