CHAPTER I THE EARLY DAYS RICHARD HARDING DAVIS was born in Philadelphia on April 1R, 18H4, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and Inine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Htrep.t., to 'vhich we had just moved. For more than forty years this was our home in all that the word implicR, and I do not believe that there was ever a nlOmp.nt 'yhe'n it was not the predominating influence in Rirhar(l':-; life and in his work. As I learned in lnte'r yr.a.rR, tho h()u~e had come into the possession of my fat her and mother after a period on their part of hard cnd(,~avor and unmmal sacrifice. It was their aInhitinn t.o add to thiH home not only the comforts and the' heautiful inanimate things of life, but to ('fl'ate an nt IlH'IHp}wrc which would prove a constant 11('lp to thol4n who lived under its roof-an inspiration t () 11wir rhildrpn that should endure so long as they liVNl. .t: ~he time of nly hroth
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CONTENTS; CUAPTER; I TilE EARLY DAYS •; II COLLEGE DAYS •; III Fm::)T NEW::;PAPER EXPERIENCES; Jr NEW YORK •; V FIRST TnVEL ARTICLES •; "1 TIm lhml'rmmANEAN AND PARIS; Y I 1 FmHT PLAYS; YII 1 CY;NTltAL AND SOUTil AMERICA; IX ~lo:-;(!{)w, B{mAI'~~HT, LONDON; X (~A!l]>l
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CONTENTS; CUAPTER; I TilE EARLY DAYS •; II COLLEGE DAYS •; III Fm::)T NEW::;PAPER EXPERIENCES; Jr NEW YORK •; V FIRST TnVEL ARTICLES •; "1 TIm lhml'rmmANEAN AND PARIS; Y I 1 FmHT PLAYS; YII 1 CY;NTltAL AND SOUTil AMERICA; IX ~lo:-;(!{)w, B{mAI'~~HT, LONDON; X (~A!l]>l
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosop
