Iowa Volume 2; Its History and Its Foremost Citizens (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... our little life is rounded." The intimate friends of Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver cannot but find between the lines of this study of Lowell a personal note--a suggestion of the Dolliver of the library and the home, to whom books were friends and the great books unfailing fountains of inspiration; to whom in his youth poverty had been severe though kind, and to whom love had come later as a dominating force, enlisting his early ambitions in the service of the right. Another contribution to the Iowa magazine presents a beautiful phase of Dolliver's character--his gratitude for service rendered. The editor of The Midland, meeting him one day, expressed a second time his thanks for the Lowell paper and the hope that it might be followed by another. "I'm glad you've asked me," said he, with that refreshing frankness which his friends delight to recall. "If you'd like a sketch of Governor Carpenter who had recently died I'd be glad to write one; for the governor was one of the best friends I ever had, and I'd like to pay a grateful tribute to his worth.' And so, a few weeks later, on came from Washington a manuscript containing a tribute of love and respect such as few men feel moved to pay.2 The sketch is a simple expression of a young man's loving regard for one who, from time to time, in other years, had turned aside from public service and absorbing occupations to say the word that needed to be said, and do the deed that needed to be done, for the encouragement of a young attorney in his early struggle for a foothold in his profession. Had Jonathan P. Dolliver chosen literature as his vocation, he might or might not have succeeded financially, for the literary world is "uncertain, coy and hard to please," and, like the social worl...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... our little life is rounded." The intimate friends of Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver cannot but find between the lines of this study of Lowell a personal note--a suggestion of the Dolliver of the library and the home, to whom books were friends and the great books unfailing fountains of inspiration; to whom in his youth poverty had been severe though kind, and to whom love had come later as a dominating force, enlisting his early ambitions in the service of the right. Another contribution to the Iowa magazine presents a beautiful phase of Dolliver's character--his gratitude for service rendered. The editor of The Midland, meeting him one day, expressed a second time his thanks for the Lowell paper and the hope that it might be followed by another. "I'm glad you've asked me," said he, with that refreshing frankness which his friends delight to recall. "If you'd like a sketch of Governor Carpenter who had recently died I'd be glad to write one; for the governor was one of the best friends I ever had, and I'd like to pay a grateful tribute to his worth.' And so, a few weeks later, on came from Washington a manuscript containing a tribute of love and respect such as few men feel moved to pay.2 The sketch is a simple expression of a young man's loving regard for one who, from time to time, in other years, had turned aside from public service and absorbing occupations to say the word that needed to be said, and do the deed that needed to be done, for the encouragement of a young attorney in his early struggle for a foothold in his profession. Had Jonathan P. Dolliver chosen literature as his vocation, he might or might not have succeeded financially, for the literary world is "uncertain, coy and hard to please," and, like the social worl...

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Rarebooksclub.com

Country of origin

United States

Release date

May 2012

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First published

May 2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 12mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

228

ISBN-13

978-1-151-21036-4

Barcode

9781151210364

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1-151-21036-6



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