1908

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 January 1908

  • Description: Two or three weeks ago Elinor Glyn called on me...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 February 1908

  • Description: Apparently we do not need to go abroad to find quaint and delightful samples...

Autobiographical Dictation of 13 February 1908

  • Description: My first day in Bermuda paid a dividend...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 February 1908

  • Description: One's first contact with a fresh, new, thrilling novelty is for him a memorable event...

Autobiographical Dictation of 19 February 1908

  • Description: I sail for Bermuda three days hence, but not for my health...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 April 1908

  • Description: Miss Lyon and the Rogerses and I arrived back from Bermuda three days ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 17 April 1908

  • Description: One day at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, Mrs. Clemens and I were mourning for our lost little ones...

Autobiographical Dictation of 27 April 1908

  • Description: District-Attorney Jerome has been telling some straight truths at a banquet the other night...

Autobiographical Dictation of 28 April 1908

  • Description: Lord Dundreary has been revived, after an age-long silence...

Autobiographical Dictation of 29 April 1908

  • Description: Last night I read in the Atlantic a passage from one of Rev. Dr. Van Dyke's books...

Autobiographical Dictation of 21 May 1908

  • Description: Last night I read in the Atlantic a passage from one of Rev. Dr. Van Dyke's books...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 May 1908

  • Description: The Harpers have now been my publishers four years and a half...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 June 1908

  • Description: I clip the following from the newspapers...

Autobiographical Dictation of 26 June 1908

  • Description: We entered into occupation of this new house eight days ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 3 July 1908

  • Description: To-morrow is Hell-fire Day, that English holiday which we have celebrated, every Fourth of July...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 July 1908

  • Description: Joel Chandler Harris is dead...

Autobiographical Dictation of 7 July 1908

  • Description: But not now—after a few minutes...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 July 1908

  • Description: To resume about the Aldrich Memorial affair...

Autobiographical Dictation of 9 July 1908

  • Description: Governor Guild, talking at ease, made a graceful and animated speech...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 July 1908

  • Description: A few days ago I wrote John Howells some strong and spontaneous praises...

Autobiographical Dictation of 14 July 1908

  • Description: The principal editorial comment in Collier's Weekly...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 July and 12 September 1908

  • Description: Thirty-five years ago in a letter to my wife ostensibly...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 August 1908

  • Description: Early in the evening of the first day of this month...

Autobiographical Dictation of 6 October 1908

  • Description: I called this house Innocence at Home but my daughter Clara has abolished that name...

Autobiographical Dictation of 31 October 1908

  • Description: Paragraph clipped from the news columns a day or two ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 2 November 1908

  • Description: Several times in this Autobiography I have spoken of an unpublished philosophy of mine...

Autobiographical Dictation of 5 November 1908

  • Description: Meantime a letter has arrived which continues this subject...

Autobiographical Dictation of 12 November 1908

  • Description: The following telegram appeared in the newspapers yesterday morning...

Autobiographical Dictation of 24 November 1908

  • Description: Lord Northcliffe came up with Colonel Harvey to talk over my new copyright scheme...

Autobiographical Dictation of 8 December 1908

  • Description: Speaking of burglars, here's a curious coincidence...

Autobiographical Dictation of 10 December 1908

  • Description: It always distresses me when I do something sly and furtive...

Autobiographical Dictation of 16 December 1908

  • Description: I passed my seventy-third birthday a couple of weeks ago...

Autobiographical Dictation of 22 December 1908

  • Description: The mails bring me many interesting letters, and now and then a remarkable one...

Autobiographical Dictation of 25 December 1908

  • Description: Ten days ago Robert Collier wrote me that he had bought a baby elephant...