The complete online text of Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick (novelist).

Robert Herrick was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a genteelly impoverished family that traced its New England lineage back to 1636. Schooled locally, he also graduated from Harvard, where he benefited from a recent interest in encouraging creative...

Although he is largely forgotten today, Robert Herrick was regarded in the decade before World War I as an important inheritor of the realist tradition and a controversial critic of American materialism. Herrick was one of a number of middle-class, gener...

Herrick's three collections of short stories written over a thirty-year period from 1895 to 1925 do not alter the reputation established for him by his seventeen novels and five novellas. He is considered a brilliant, minor realist who fused Theodore Dre...

THE LOVE LETTER I've heard of secret drawers in old desks, of course; who hasn't? But the day I bought my desk I wasn't thinking of secret drawers, and I know very well I didn't have any least premonition or feel of...

"Jesus. It's big. What is it?" "Open it," Jim replies with an almost graceful jerk of the head. "Go on, love, unwrap it." He is pleased with her curiosity. Usually she is right on to him. Not this time. The corners of...