The dean 

 of anglers 



Good 



citizens 

 too 



The Days of a Man 1892 



of Little Rain" and "The Flock" classics of their 

 kind. Of her later work I need not speak, as it 

 deals for the most part with a less specialized en- 

 vironment. 



Unique in her way among these so-called "Cali- 

 fornians" was Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson 

 now Mrs. Oilman lecturer, reformer, critic, and 

 author of clever, mainly satirical verse. During its 

 early years, Mrs. Stetson was a frequent visitor at 

 Stanford University. 



With Charles F. Holder of Pasadena, well known 

 as a man of letters, biographer, and naturalist, I 

 had many friendly relations. In California he was 

 perhaps most gratefully recognized as the dean of 

 anglers, the special expert and exponent of the joys 

 of fishing for tuna, swordfish, and other monsters of 

 the sea at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island; of a 

 book called "Fish Stories," Holder and I were joint 

 authors. George Wharton James, gentle apostle of 

 the out-of-doors, friend of the Indians and historian 

 of the Missions, I first met on Mount Lowe above 

 Pasadena, where he appeared as expositor of the 

 geological and scenic surroundings. 



Prominent in general Los Angeles circles was Dr. 

 Norman Bridge, an able physician, a successful 

 financier, a generous friend, and the author of charm- 

 ing essays on current social topics in literature and 

 philosophy. In the same city labored "Bob" 

 (Robert J.) Burdette, affectionately remembered the 

 country over for the warm heart and fine wit he had 

 displayed as humorist of the Burlington Hawkeye. 

 I knew him also as a veteran of the Civil War, author 

 of "The Drums of the Forty-seventh," a history 

 of his regiment, and, incidentally, a telling arraign- 



