instance, was known all over the state* Edwin 

 Markium was known. Herbert Bashford, who had been 

 the literary editor for the Bullet in < was known. 

 Ina Coolbrith was a celebrated person* Clax»€nce Urray 

 and Edward Rowland Sill, who wrote that poem, 

 "Ood Be Merciful to Me, a Pool," Burgess was no 

 longer h«r# Imt his poems, his "Purple Cow** and 

 ** Chewing 0^x^i Man,** were known all over. Charles 

 Keeler was a well-known figure. People would point 

 him out. David Starr Jordan even wrote poetry. 

 Mayor Taylor wrote poetry. Palmer Cox, who I 

 believe came from Vallejo, had written his Brownie 

 stories in poems. Bret Harte, Charles Stoddard, and 

 George Sterling were very generally known. Clark 

 i^ahton Smith, a young nan in Auburn who had never 

 seen a trolley car, never used a telephone, and 

 wrote a striking poem on Nero, a philosophical 

 analysis of Nero's mind. Will Irwin and Wallace Irwin 

 wrote verse. Jeffers was not so well known at that 

 time. Mary Austin was out here in Carmel. 

 Henry Meade Bland, who was a teacher of literature 

 in the San Jose school, had whole classes of poet8# 

 He used to publish a little magazine for them. 



