[102] By the regulations then in force Consuls were forbidden to be absent from their posts for a period exceeding ten days, without first obtaining leave from the President.
[103] Pemberton’s “Life of Bret Harte,” page 334.
[104] Mary Stuart Boyd. See “Harper’s Magazine,” vol. 105, page 773.
[105] His friend and travelling companion, Colonel Arthur Collins.
[108] When news of the death of Dickens reached Bret Harte he was camping in the Foot-Hills, far from San Francisco, but he sent a telegram to hold back for a day the printing of the “Overland,” then ready for the press, and his poem was written that night and forwarded the next morning. A week or two later Bret Harte received a cordial letter from Dickens, written just before his death, complimenting the California author, and requesting him to write a story for “All the Year Round.”
[109] A miner, writing in August, 1850, from the Middle Fork of the American River, said: “When I came up here, the river was a roaring torrent, and its sombre music could plainly be heard upon the tops of the mountains rising to a height of about three thousand feet.”
[110] G. H. Denny, President of Washington and Lee University.
[111] Thomas E. Cramblet, President of Bethany College.