boyesen

Updated: June 14, 2025

At any rate, as a susceptible young editor, I was asked to meet my potential contributor at the professor's two o'clock dinner, and when we came to coffee in the study, Boyesen took from the pocket nearest his heart a chapter of 'Gunnar', and read it to us.

William Dean Howells - Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

At any rate, as a susceptible young editor, I was asked to meet my potential contributor at the professor's two o'clock dinner, and when we came to coffee in the study, Boyesen took from the pocket nearest his heart a chapter of 'Gunnar', and read it to us.

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship