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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 24 (search)
ys simple and modest. He is terribly tired of The Heathen Chinee, and almost annoyed at its popularity when better things of his have been less liked --the usual experience of authors. I find again, May 15, 1871: I went up last Wednesday night to the Grand Army banquet [in Boston] and found it pleasant. The receptions of Hooker and Burnside were especially ardent. At our table we were about to give three cheers for Bret Harte as a man went up to the chief table. It turned out to be Mayor Gaston. This mistake, however, showed Harte's ready popularity at first, though some obstacles afterwards tended to diminish it. Among these obstacles was to be included, no doubt, the San Francisco newspapers, which were constantly showered among us from the Pacific shores with all the details of the enormous debts which Bret Harte had left behind him, and which he never in his life, so far as I could hear, made a serious effort to discharge. Through some distrust either of my friendship or o