Don Horacio 



DON HORACIO" was a fa- 

 vorite name of the Quixotic 

 friend for love of whom King sought 

 the precious " Helmet of Mambrino," 

 in the province of La Mancha, and 

 to whom he addressed the delightful 

 epistle which accompanied his gift 

 of the barber's basin he found there. 

 To certain fellow-lovers of roman- 

 tic literature Don Horacio was also 

 known as " The Bachelor of San 

 Francisco." To everyday and com- 

 monplace acquaintance his matter- 

 of-fact name was Horace F. Cutter. 

 He was born in Boston more than 

 eighty years ago.* In his boyhood 

 he was a pupil at the Boston Latin 

 school and, as he always remembered 



* July 4, 1821. 

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