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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940. My friendly contemporaries. New York : Macmillan Co., 1932 (OCoLC)564206699 |
| Named Person: | Hamlin Garland |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hamlin Garland; Carpenter Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) |
| OCLC Number: | 3544148 |
| Notes: | Illustrated lining-papers (portraits). "This volume, like its predecessors, 'Roadside meetings' and 'Companions on the trail', is based upon my literary log ... Ten volumes of my diaries running from 1913 to 1923 have been drawn upon."--Pref. "Kipling's home and Bodiam Castle": p. 447-456. |
| Description: | xvi, 544 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | A group of Chicago friends -- Prison reform and war news -- Literary pioneers and eastern artists -- War eagles, poets, and lecturers -- New York in war-time -- Club life and motion pictures -- Motion picture promises -- Howells' home at York Harbor -- At Sagamore Hill -- Citizen Roosevelt and his sons -- The good ship Sanitas -- "A Son of the Middle Border" -- My Middle Border chronicle pleases -- My election to the Academy -- The return of peace -- The passing of Roosevelt -- Roosevelt memorial plans -- A southern lecture tour -- "Trail-Makers of the Middle Border" -- Another summer in Onteora -- Election to the Century Club -- Lord Dunsany and other poets -- Another southern tour -- The death of Howells -- Howells' early life in Cambridge -- Throngs of friendly witnesses -- "A Daughter of the Middle Border" -- Death of John Burroughs -- Housing the American Academy -- Literary life at Onteora -- Burial of the unknown soldier -- Poets and poetry week -- A new edition of my boosk -- London homes and English authors -- Renewing literary friendships -- A luncheon at Balfour's -- Kipling's home and Bodiam Castle -- Literary life in Kensington -- Conan Doyle and Battle Abbey -- We visit Joseph Conrad -- Conrad comes to town -- Bernard Shaw and his neighbors -- Barrie comes to dinner -- Conrad, Oxford, and Masefield -- In conclusion. |
| Responsibility: | by Hamlin Garland ... decorations by Constance Garland. |
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