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405 DEJ;I abbreviations Academy American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City. Items reproduced courtesy of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Afternoon Hamlin Garland, Afternoon Neighbors: Further Excerpts from a Literary Log (New York: Macmillan, 1934). Back-Trailers Hamlin Garland, Back-Trailers from the Middle Border, illustrations by Constance Garland (New York: Macmillan, 1928). Companions Hamlin Garland, Companions on the Trail: A Literary Chronicle, decorations by Constance Garland (New York: Macmillan, 1931). Contemporaries Hamlin Garland, My Friendly Contemporaries: A Literary Log, decorations by Constance Garland (New York: Macmillan, 1932). Crosses Hamlin Garland, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (New York: Dutton, 1939). Daughter Hamlin Garland, A Daughter of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1921). Diary Hamlin Garland’s diary, 1898–1940, items gd 1–43. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Items reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library. Forty Years Hamlin Garland, Forty Years of Psychic Research (New York: Macmillan, 1936). Huntington The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Items reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library. Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland, Main-Travelled Roads, ed. Donald Pizer (Columbus: Merrill, 1970). A facsimile of the 1891 Arena edition. 406 notes to pages 2–5 Miami Eldon Hill Collection, the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, Miami University Libraries, Oxford, Ohio. nypl Manuscripts and Archives Division, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Roadside Meetings Hamlin Garland, Roadside Meetings, decorations by Constance Garland (New York: Macmillan, 1930). Selected Letters Hamlin Garland, Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland, ed. Keith Newlin and Joseph B. McCullough (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Son Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1917). “This Loving Daughter” Isabel Garland Lord, “This Loving Daughter” (an unpublished memoir of her father). Copy courtesy of her granddaughter, Victoria Doyle-Jones. Another copy is deposited in the Huntington Library, item fac 1285). Trail-Makers Hamlin Garland, Trail-Makers of the Middle Border, illustrations by Constance Garland (New York: Macmillan, 1926). usc Hamlin Garland Papers, Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections, University of Southern California. prologue 1. “Hamlin Garland Rites Held at Neshonoc,” West Salem Nonpareil-Journal, March 14, 1940, 1. 2. Diary, February 18, 1940. 3. Garland to Zulime Garland, April 25, [no year], item gd 335, Huntington ; “Hamlin Garland Returns; Admirers Besiege Author,” Chicago Daily News, [October 1938], clipping, Miami. 4. Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 3 (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961), 438. 5. Booth Tarkington, “Hamlin Garland,” in Commemorative Tributes of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1905–1941 (New York: American Academy, 1942), 400; Robert Morss Lovett to Eldon Hill, November 27, 1934, Miami; Henry James, “American Letter,” Literature, April 9, 1898, 422; S. S. McClure’s recollection of Howells’s comment, bound in a memorial volume celebrating notes to pages 5–13 407 Garland’s seventy-third birthday, as quoted by Eldon Hill in “Hamlin Garland: The Writer as Citizen” (unpublished biography, Miami), 309; Eldon Hill’s transcription of Robert Peattie’s unpublished autobiography, Miami; Theodore Roosevelt to Brander Matthews, May 21, 1894, in The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt and Brander Matthews, ed. Lawrence J. Oliver (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995), 81; Charles Lummis, “That Which Is Written,” Land of Sunshine, November 1886, 248. 6. Diary, April 9, 1899. 7. Harold Latham in “Centennial Tributes and a Checklist of the Hamlin Garland Papers in the University of Southern California Library,” in University of Southern California Library Bulletin 9, ed. and comp. Lloyd Arvidson (Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 1962), 13. 1. return of the private 1. Contemporaries, 519. 2. James D. Jones, “The Garland Heritage” (unpublished typescript, West Salem Historical Society, West Salem wi); Hamlin Garland, “Biographical Notes of R. H. Garland,” item 504, usc. Jones is a descendant of the McClintock branch of the family. During the composition of A Son of the Middle Border, Garland asked his father about his early memories and noted, “He had a clear notion of it all up to his Civil War experience. I realized that he must soon pass and that I should get as much of his history as I could” (Diary, December 27, 1911). Garland would later mine the “Biographical Notes” for much of the early family history in A Son of the Middle Border and Trail-Makers of the Middle Border. 3. Trail-Makers, 54–55. 4. Garland, “Biographical Notes of R. H. Garland,” 3. 5. Hamlin...