Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-23

Mr.. Lanman has found his literary work
fairly profitable, every one of his numer
GUS works having proven successful in a
way, as is also his more recent
work in the field of art.
A half mile from Mr.. Lanman's tasteful
home, on a high bluff overlooking the Po-
tomac, stands the cottage home of an
other of W~ashingtOn's bOok-makers, one
whose name is familiar in almost every
household, Mrs. f. D. n. Southworth.
And she is the most remarkable of them
all in the number of works produced.
While Mr.. Blaine has written n volume
and is upon the second, while Mrs. Dahl
green has written two or three, while
MCPHERSON has written nearly a dozen,
while Mr.. BancrOfts works number
almost a score OF volumes, and while Mr.,
Lanman's works are in the thirties, as to
number, she has written nearly as many
as all of them together. Her works num-
Der sIXty-toUr, and she is still at work,
at is a little singular" said a friend of
this talented and Woodworking story
writer, "that she has written lust as
many stories as she is years old. She is
now in her Goth year, and is writing her
siXty-fifth story"
Sand how long has she been writing ?'
about forty years. She married in
lo4l,unhappily as it afterwards turned out.
and only two years thereafter a separa-
ton took place, since which time she has
supported herself by her pen. She has al
ways counted this her home, though she
has spent a considerable portion of her
time with her two children, in Workers,
where they have homes, ard where they
are of course anxious to have her STAY as
much as she will. Then, too, it is quite
as convenient for her, as she gets
her copy quickly to the publishers of the
Ledger, for whom she works exclusively,
and gets her proofs back for revision in a
short time. She usually writes until
about Thursday night, sends her copy to
the office, spends Friday and Saturday in
miscellaneous work and play, resting,
exercising and attending to business,
reYlses her proofs on Monday and sets in
for another week Of hard work. She reads
the newspapers carefully. getting many
hints for her stories from the incidents in
real life told in them, and writes inces-
sanity, doing all her work with her own
hands, writing her manuscript in a heavy
hand with a large gold pen, revising her
W proofs, and depending on no one but
herself. She often works far into the
night, sometimes until morning, sleeping
late, and breakfasting perhaps at 10 or II
or u O'clock"
"And does her health continue good
under this heavy strain ?"
at seems to. l have known her a quar-
ter OF a century, and never saw her in
apparently better health thar now"
CAN her work is for Mr.. Bonner and
the Ledger?"
Eyes. Her stories are published first
there, and then in book form. She writes
for nobody else, and has not furnished a
page OF manuscript to any other publisher
for years. Yes, she has accumulated
some money meantime, nobody can tell
how much, for she manages her own af-
fairs and never talks about them. The
.supp0sitiOn is that she gets about $10,0 900
a year from Bonner, though as she is very
charitable she does not accumulate, per-
haps, as much as she might otherwise"