AN AMERICAN IDYLL - THE LIFE OF CARLETON H. PARKER By CORNELIA STRATTON PARKER INTRODUCTION WAS it all a thousand years ago? Time has nothing to do with it. Yet I know by count that it was two years and ten months past the cleavage between two worlds. Somehow, born of the struggle of those first months, grew the conviction that I must put down in black and white the record of fifteen years. Who would ever read that record was a hazy inconsequential thought, at best. We act first and reason afterwards. I thought of reasons for writing this book after it was written. Yet the truth of the matter was that I wrote it because something within me urged me on. Nor would I perhaps ever have had the courage to do anything with the material after it was written, had it not been for the enthusiasm of the three friends who read the manuscript. I must send it to the Atlantic Monthly. One of the three suggested that a few of Carl Parkers friends might be interested in getting the entire manuscript...

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