This was all very different background froan 

 Philadelphia or Hew York. 



dllbs X was going to say that by 1906 » the time of the 

 fire, many of the people whom you hare mentioned 

 had already gone to New York, People like 

 Ambrose Bleree^ Gelett Burgess, Will and Wallace 

 Irwla had left* Was there much literary activity 

 going on? 



Cogglns: Oh yes* There were mmj in the Cslifomla 



Penwomen's Oroup and the Odifomia Writers* Group. 

 There were lots of people writing poetry. There 

 still are, very much the same type of person* 

 There were a lot of these poets still here. 

 Charles Stoddard, I think, was here ^en I came. 

 I know he was. Joaquin was here* Ine Coolbrlth 

 was here. Most of the list I gave you were here. 



Glib: So it wouldn't be a fair generalization to say 

 there had been a cookie te exodus* 



Cogglns: No. George Sterling was here. The best-known 

 poets were still here. Irwin and Burgess were 

 perhaps best known for their other writings. 



Glib: Did your work bring you much into contact with all 

 these people? 



