Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) DOMESDAY BOOK SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS SOME PRESS OPINIONS "One of the greatest books of the present century."--_Nation._ "The 'Spoon River Anthology' has certain qualities essential to greatness--originality of conception and treatment, a daring that would soar to the stars, an instant felicity and facility of expression."--C. E. LAWRENCE in _The Daily Chronicle_. "Mr. Edgar Lee Masters will become a classic ... so close-packed is the book's pregnant wit, so outspoken its language, so destructive of cant and pharisaism and the veneer of the proprieties, so piercingly true in insight."--EDWARD GARNETT in _The Manchester Guardian_. "It is a remarkable book and it grips."--_Daily Telegraph._ "This book is of a quality that will endure.... Mr. Masters has been daring with the certainty of success."--_Liverpool Daily Post._ "A quite remarkable volume of verse ... quite masterly."--_Sphere._ "Its reality, ingenuity, irony, insight, and vision are unique."--_Bookman._ DOMESDAY BOOK BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS AUTHOR OF "SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY," ETC. LONDON EVELEIGH NASH COMPANY LIMITED 1921 COPYRIGHT IN THE U. S. A. BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY _Printed in the United States of America_ TO MY FATHER HARDIN WALLACE MASTERS SPLENDID INDIVIDUAL OF A PASSING SPECIES--AN AMERICAN CONTENTS PAGE DOMESDAY BOOK 1 THE BIRTH OF ELENOR MURRAY 4 FINDING OF THE BODY 9 THE CORONER 13 HENRY MURRAY 23 MRS. MURRAY 36 ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER 50 GREGORY WENNER 59 MRS. GREGORY WENNER 71 DR. TRACE TO THE CORONER 80 IRMA LEESE 84 MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER 94 ARCHIBALD LOWELL 101 WIDOW FORTELKA 110 REV. PERCY FERGUSON 118 DR. BURKE 126 CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF 138 THE GOVERNOR 152 JOHN SCOFIELD 158 GOTTLIEB GERALD 163 LILLI ALM 173 FATHER WHIMSETT 179 JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON 188 AT FAIRBANKS 210 ANTON SOSNOWSKI 219 CONSIDER FREELAND 229 GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN 237 WILL PAGET ON DEMOS AND HOGOS 247 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 254