Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis. Richard Harding Davis
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Richard Harding Davis
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664608369
Table of Contents
ALFRED DE MUSSET EST MORT DANS CETTE MAISON
TAKE ME BACK TO BROADWAY, WHERE THE ORCHIDS GROW WITH APOLOGIES TO THE WESTERN DIALECT POETS
CAMPAIGNING IN CUBA AND GREECE
THE SPANISH AND ENGLISH CORONATIONS
CHAPTER I
THE EARLY DAYS
Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Street, to which we had just moved. For more than forty years this was our home in all that the word implies, and I do not believe that there was ever a moment when it was not the predominating influence in Richard's life and in his work. As I learned in later years, the house had come into the possession of my father and mother after a period on their part of hard endeavor and unusual sacrifice. It was their ambition to add to this home not only the comforts and the beautiful inanimate things of life, but to create an atmosphere which would prove a constant help to those who lived under its roof—an inspiration to their children that should endure so long as they lived. At the time of my brother's death the fact was frequently commented upon that, unlike most literary folk, he had