Synopsis
Reminiscences of James Whitcomb Riley (1916). This book, "Reminiscences of James Whitcomb Riley", by Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, is a replication of a book originally published before 1916. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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From the Author
"My acquaintance with Mr. Riley began by correspondence. I began it. A ridiculously young editor, with soaring ambitions and the least money imaginable, I was gravely trying to conduct the literary departments of a Chicago weekly. I had a yearly allowance for my editorial purchases, and so long as I kept within that sum I was permitted to have whatever my eighteen-year-old tastes dictated and my purse would buy.
"I decided to have a Riley poem. To this end I skimped and saved until I had amassed the staggering sum of twenty-five dollars, which without any preliminary negotiations, I sent to Mr. Riley with a polite note requesting twenty-five dollars worth of his very best poetry. I had no idea of the temerity of my request. That twenty-five-dollar check looked big enough to me to buy 'In Memoriam' or 'Paradise Lost.'"
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