REPUBLISHED BY GALE RESEARCH COMPANY, BOOK TOWER, DETROIT, 1967
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY HENRY CHILDS MERWIN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1911
Library of Congress Card Number: 67-23887
TO
Anne Amory Merwin
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
PREFACE
It is a pleasure for the Author of this book to record his indebtedness to others in preparing it. Mrs. T. Edgar Pemberton, and Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, the publishers of Pemberton’s Life of Bret Harte, have kindly consented to the quotation from that interesting book of several letters by Mr. Harte that throw much light upon his character. Similar permission was given by Mr. Howells and his publishers, the Messrs. Harper and Brothers, to make use of Mr. Howells’ account of Bret Harte’s visit to him at Cambridge; and of this permission the Author has availed himself with a freedom which the Reader at least will not regret.