Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American Singer

THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN SINGER

BY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY MDCCCCXVI
COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GERALDINE FARRAR-TELLEGEN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published March 1916
In offering these little sketches of some of the interesting events that have helped shape a career now fairly familiar to the general public, it has not been my intention to weary the indulgent reader with a lengthy dissertation of literary pretension, or tiresome data resulting from the obvious and oft-recurring I.
From out the storehouse of memory, impressions crystallized into form without regard to time or place, and it was more than a passing pleasure to jot them down at haphazard; in the quiet of my library, on the flying train, or again, beneath the witchery of California skies, I scribbled as the mood prompted, as I would converse with an interested and congenial listener.
It is not, perhaps, a New England characteristic to expand in affectionate eulogy for the satisfaction of a curious public, but the threads of these recollections are so closely interwoven with maternal love and devotion, that this volume would be incomplete without its rightful dedication to
MY MOTHER
G. F.