The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers - Henry Childs Merwin

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Author with some information about his uncle’s early life, but he has also read the proofs, and has made more than one valuable suggestion which the Author was glad to adopt. It is only fair to add that Mr. Knaufft does not in all respects agree with the Author’s estimate of Bret Harte’s character. Another critic, Prescott Hartford Belknap, has put his fine literary taste at the service of the book, and has saved its writer from some mistakes which he now shudders to contemplate.

      Most of all, however, the Author is indebted to his accomplished friend, Edwin Munroe Bacon, who, though much engaged with important literary work of his own, has read the book twice, once in MS. and once in print—a signal, not to say painful proof of friendship which the Author acknowledges with gratitude, and almost with shame.

      H. C. M.

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Bret Harte (Photogravure) Frontispiece.
From a photograph by Hollyer taken in 1896.
Bernard Hart, Bret Harte’s Grandfather 6
From a painting in the possession of Messrs. Arthur Lipper & Co., New York.
San Francisco, November, 1844 24
After a sketch by J. C. Ward.
Bret Harte in 1861 32
The facsimile of Bret Harte’s handwriting is taken from the back of the photograph in the possession of Miss Elizabeth Benton Frémont.
Storeship Apollo, used as a Saloon 40
After a drawing by W. Taber.
Grand Plaza, San Francisco, 1852 60
From an old print.
The First Hotel at San Francisco 86
After a drawing by W. Taber.
Miners’ Ball 94
After a drawing by A. Castaigne.
The Two Opponents Came Nearer 114
After a drawing by Frederic Remington illustrating “The Iliad of Sandy Bar.”
Sacramento City in 1852 120
From an old print.
The Post-Office, San Francisco, 1849–50 144
After a drawing by A. Castaigne.
He Looked Curiously at his Reflection 166
After a drawing by E. Boyd Smith, illustrating “Left Out on Lone Star Mountain.”
Dennison’s Exchange, and Parker House, December, 1849, before the Fire 178
After a drawing by W. Taber.
Main Street, Nevada City, 1852 196
From a photograph in the possession of Colonel Thomas L. Livermore.
The Bells, San Gabriel Mission 212
From a photograph.
I Thought You Were that Horse-Thief 248
After a drawing by Denman Fink, illustrating “Lanty Foster’s Mistake.”
The Home of “Truthful James,” Jackass Flat, Tuolumne County, California 310
From a photograph.

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      Francis Brett Harte was born at Albany in the State of New York, on August twenty-fifth, 1836. By his relatives and early friends he was called Frank; but soon after beginning his career as an author in San Francisco he signed his name as “Brett,” then as “Bret,” and finally as “Bret Harte.” “Bret Harte,” therefore, is in some degree a nom de guerre, and it was commonly supposed at first, both in the Eastern States and in England,

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