The Mississippi Quarterly, March 22nd, 2000
AMONG THE PAGE FAMILY PAPERS, recently acquired by the Virginia Historical Society, is a letter from Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) to his wife of only two years, Anne Seddon Bruce Page (1867-1888), in which he describes his first meeting with Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908).
At a time when the Chautauqua Movement was at its height in the United States, the youthful and energetic editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Henry Woodfin Grady (1850-1889), proposed for the Atlanta area a Piedmont Chautauqua to be excelled by no other in the country. With this plan in mind, he enlisted the aid of th...
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