“Its reality, ingenuity, irony, insight, and vision are unique.”—Bookman.

DOMESDAY BOOK

BY
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
AUTHOR OF “SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY,” ETC.

LONDON
EVELEIGH NASH COMPANY
LIMITED
1921

Copyright in the U. S. A.
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

TO MY FATHER
HARDIN WALLACE MASTERS
SPLENDID INDIVIDUAL OF
A PASSING SPECIES—AN AMERICAN

CONTENTS

PAGE
Domesday Book[1]
The Birth of Elenor Murray[4]
Finding of the Body[9]
The Coroner[13]
Henry Murray[23]
Mrs. Murray[36]
Alma Bell to the Coroner[50]
Gregory Wenner[59]
Mrs. Gregory Wenner[71]
Dr. Trace to the Coroner[80]
Irma Leese[84]
Miriam Fay’s Letter[94]
Archibald Lowell[101]
Widow Fortelka[110]
Rev. Percy Ferguson[118]
Dr. Burke[126]
Charles Warren, the Sheriff[138]
The Governor[152]
John Scofield[158]
Gottlieb Gerald[163]
Lilli Alm[173]
Father Whimsett[179]
John Campbell and Carl Eaton[188]
At Fairbanks[210]
Anton Sosnowski[219]
Consider Freeland[229]
George Joslin on La Menken[237]
Will Paget on Demos and Hogos[247]
The House that Jack Built[254]
Jane Fisher[270]
Henry Baker, at New York[277]
Loveridge Chase[286]
At Nice[289]
The Major and Elenor Murray at Nice[305]
The Convent[312]
Barrett Bays[319]
Elenor Murray[356]
The Jury Deliberates[377]
The Verdict[395]