The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-12-30
Joa0uin Miller In London.

A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier. Journal who has been Inter
viewing" Joaquin Miller thus represents
that poet as relating his experiences in
london: went to writing little things
and sending them to the papers. But
thew never published anything and
never got an answer. / began to feel
that London was great city, and that
after ali was only one of its atoms
Well, Itugged along not altogether nope,
lessly, and began arranging my poems
suitably for publication in book form;
and to seek for publisher. ! WORKED
hard all the forenoon, and IN the aiter'
noon walked against fate for publlsner,
but always got beaten. Then at nignt
| would come home with heart SO heaVy
and so utterly desolate that ! was sure l
could never look up again. Time aiter
time have stood before the melancholy
old fireplace with my poems in my hand
ready to fling them into the flames, ana
the resolve in my heart to fling myseii
over a bridge and make hole IN the
Thames. But (aughing lazily) ! was
generally too tired to make the effort 10
DO either, and would go to bed, have a
GOOD rest. get up in the morning, re-
, fre she'd and hopeful, only to go over the
same old, discoureging round again;
Through Whitelaw seid's advice had
. deposited ten Thousand dollars in gold
= hearing bonds in New York before leav'
= inc for Europe, and had only taken q
!, few hundred dollars with me. l re
7 oeiyed the interest on the bonds regular
Iy but about this time became terri
u bly pushed for money, and had to .pawr
nv watch and rings. sent to my broth
err; got help, but never could get a pun
g Usher. No hope came. resolved to Sc
Is the poems in type, and issued fifty copie
II under the title of the "Pacifc Poems,
- issued from the Chiswick press on Ne'
a. Years of 1873. Then l sent copy I
81 81 the leading newspapers and reviews, an
aIs well I locked the poems and the crit
w. w. cisms in my leather bag, and receive
's' the publishers as cOurteOusly as kne
!. howl l had got fame, and, thanks
~ nobody, l have had my price for woi
~ ever since. Then the Savage Club toe
me IN through Mr.. Graves, author OF u
w w Songs of Killarney" Imet noble 10
JIG Hood. who gave me a letter to fr'
Iockyer, brother-in-law of Dean Stanie
,oe and he made me at home in Londo
'o- Everybody seemed to want to take n
'o' by the hand that they would have throw
IN aside month before, and lead me
tho higher. From the Savage was sent
,,io ,%o the Whitefriar's, from that to 81; 4
w. ;rs bans, from that to the Garrick, ana IN
aw nS to the Pre-Raphaelites', then to the AZ
~ eneum, and was made an honorary me
soA 'ot ber of them all save the Garrick, VIII
Nv. ~. is the first actors club OF the wor
hns sm1 Then the "Songs of the Sierras' '
"'' issued by Iongman 4 Co., and eve
yUdd nervous, excited, wild with the TO
any ",'t binding success. In the midst OF
.mS UuS came a dispatch announcing my sist
anu ant death in Oregon, and that my 10
cav brother was dying in Eastern Penn
how vania. hastened to his bedside,
my while caring for him revised " The 80
ace, acc of the Sierras" for the American edi
WI, S;",, issued nv Roberts Bros. | had 60. !,
alu. alen ready for the press, and the poor fel
,our aoun who had helped me aud had una!
naIP faith in me wished me to read port
'a"e of it. But he never heard word.
r tho died next day.