Author: Mary E. Phillips

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781330102862

Excerpt from Reminiscences of William Wetmore Story, the American Sculptor and Author: Being Incidents and Anecdotes Chronologically Arranged Material for the following pages was obtained through a letter of introduction to the late Mr. Story from Miss Eliza Allen Starr of Chicago, Illinois. This letter was written eight or ten years ago with the purpose of enabling the bearer to obtain all possible information for Miss Starr's "Lectures Upon Living Artists." It naturally gave unusual opportunities for hearing from Mr. Story's own lips much that was of the greatest interest and value, and resulted in an acquaintance which afterward became friendship. Most generously has Miss Starr paid an artist's tribute to an artist's memory by devoting her own manuscript, and several manuscripts in Mr. Story's handwriting, to the purposes of the present volume, which also includes incidents and anecdotes furnished by other friends, as well as notices and descriptions from the public press. Besides, frequent reference has been made to the works of the poet-artist himself, whose genius now belongs to the world by right of inheritance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.