This was several years before Field made the Saints' and Sinners' Corner in McClurg's Chicago book-store famous throughout the Bibliomaniac world by fictitious reports relating to it printed occasionally in his "Sharps and Flats" column.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
"The new volume" referred to in Field's letter to Mr. Gray was that which subsequently took the form of "Echoes from the Sabine Farm," published by his friend and fellow-Bibliomaniac, Francis Wilson.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
His column, too, reflected the genial, mellow spirit that played through all his speech and ways during the early autumn days of 1895. No other work that he had done so completely satisfied him as "The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac."
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson