Excerpt from A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Materials From the Upton Sinclair Archives I am now seventy-one years old, and my wife is sixty-six, and the time seems to have come when we ought to put them in a safe place. They have been very carefully guarded; my wife has made it her business to keep them safe. At the present time we have in our home at Monrovia no fewer than three storerooms, two of which are entirely filled and one nearly filled with various kinds of papers which have accumulated over a ...
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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Materials From the Upton Sinclair Archives I am now seventy-one years old, and my wife is sixty-six, and the time seems to have come when we ought to put them in a safe place. They have been very carefully guarded; my wife has made it her business to keep them safe. At the present time we have in our home at Monrovia no fewer than three storerooms, two of which are entirely filled and one nearly filled with various kinds of papers which have accumulated over a period of years - ever since the date of the Heli con Hall fire, March 1907, in which most of what I had then was destroyed, although I have a number of treasures which happened to be in my mother's home at the time of this fire. Among them is an early scrapbook containing the jokes and short stories by which I earned my living from the age of fifteen. The voluminous writings which I did for the so-called half-dime libraries during the ages from seventeen to twenty I never made any attempt to collect or preserve because they were of pretty poor quality; but five vol umes of them were collected and published in book form by Street 8c Smith, and I have one set of these five volumes. These are the West Point stories, the stories of West Point life which I began writing under the penname of Lt. Fred erick Garrison, and which I continued at the time the spanish-american War broke out in Cuba and nearby places. I understand that these original publications, the Starry Flag Weekly, and also the Annapolis stories in the so-called True Blue Library are considered collectors' items, but I have never done anything about them as I have never had any interest in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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