Contains numerous uncollected letters, some of which contain verse
which appears only here. "My acquaintance with Mr. Riley began by
correspondence. I began it. A ridiculously young editor, with
soaring ambitions and the least money imaginable, I was gravely
trying to conduct the literary departments of a Chicago weekly. I
had a yearly allowance for my editorial purchases, and so long as I
kept within that sum I was permitted to have whatever my
eighteen-year-old tastes dictated and my purse would buy. "I
decided to have a Riley poem. To this end I skimped and saved until
I had amassed the staggering sum of twenty-five dollars, which
without any preliminary negotiations, I sent to Mr. Riley with a
polite note requesting twenty-five dollars worth of his very best
poetry. I had no idea of the temerity of my request. That
twenty-five-dollar check looked big enough to me to buy 'In
Memoriam' or 'Paradise Lost.'"
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