Edgar Saltus: The Man

by Marie Saltus

Edgar Saltus: the Man

By Marie Saltus

... "even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea."
1925
PASCAL COVICI · Publisher
CHICAGO
Copyright 1925
PASCAL COVICI · Publisher
CHICAGO
To the Ego using the personality,
EDGAR SALTUS
Peace and Progress.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Marie Saltus, Edgar Saltus [Frontispiece]
Facing Page
Francis Henry Saltus [6]
Father of Edgar Saltus.
Edgar Saltus [10]
At Two Years of Age, sitting on the Lap of His
Mother, Eliza Evertson Saltus.
Edgar Saltus [12]
Sixteen Years of Age.
Fac-simile of Document given to Marie Saltus [116]
Fac-simile of Letter sent to Marie Saltus [128]
Fac-simile of Telegram sent to Marie Saltus [214]
Mrs. J. Theus Munds [270]
The Daughter of Edgar Saltus, and Her Little Son.
Marie Saltus [310]
Sitting at the Table on which her Husband wrote
his Books, burning Incense before a Siamese Buddha,
and meditating on a Stanza from the Bhagavad-Gitâ.

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FOREWORD

Without the explanation of reincarnation, the riddle of Edgar Saltus would rival that of the Sphinx. Super-developed in some things, correspondingly deficient in others, he presented an exterior having the defects of his finest qualities, suffused with complexes and contradictions.