Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 / 2008-10-11 00:00:00
EBOOK FIRST VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND ***
Produced by David Widger
LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
by William Dean Howells
CONTENTS:
Biographical
My First Visit to New England
First Impressions of Literary New York
LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--First Visit to New England
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to
write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives
of its great exemplars during the twenty-five years I lived near them. In
fact, I had meant to do this from the time I came among them; but I let
the days in which I almost constantly saw them go by without record save
such as I carried in a memory retentive, indeed, beyond the common, but
not so full as I could have wished when I began to invoke it for my work.
Still, upon insistent appeal, it responded in sufficient abundance; and,
though I now wish I could have remembered more instances, I think my
impressions were accurate enough.
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