“I’d look down at Abbie Carmichael’s grave as I passed--such a dingy little grave, with such a meek little monument over it. We used to think she was a great trial in the missionary society, always wanting to turn it into a spiritual meeting instead of attending to the business and collecting dues. She was hungry for the bread of life from morning till night. Now she was satisfied, with her dust lying so close to the roots of the great trees. “I always feel as if I can bear with the living more patiently after I’ve spent an hour in this churchyard and seen how far removed the dead are from their transgressions.” BOOKS BY CORRA HARRIS _A Circuit Rider’s Wife_, 1910. _Eve’s Second Husband_, 1911. _The Recording Angel_, 1912. _In Search of a Husband_, 1913. _The Co-Citizens_, 1915. _A Circuit Rider’s Widow_, 1916. _Making Her His Wife_, 1918. _From Sunup to Sundown_, 1919. (_With Faith Harris Leech, her daughter._) _Happily Married_, 1920. _My Son_, 1921. _The Eyes of Love_, 1922. _First two published by Henry Altemus, Philadelphia; next six by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York; last three by George H. Doran Company._ CHAPTER XIII MARY AUSTIN [Spellings and punctuation, even though inadvertent, have been faithfully transcribed for the sake of preserving something intensely human in the personal sketch below.] [Typewritten] Independence, Cal. Nov. 25th, 1902. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; Gentlemen, Enclosed you will find the biographical sketch of my life and some account of my work, in reply to your request for the same. I have no doubt that you can get some expression of opinion from Mr. Muir in regard to my book “A Land of Little Rain”. but I will take pains to make sure of the matter and write you again in regard to it. Chas. F. Lummis, editor of Out West, and George Hamlin Fitch, literary editor of The San Fransisco Chronicle, and also the reviewer of the Argonaut can be counted on to give me some friendly notice, especially Lummis as he is my first and warmest friend in the west.... I have written the biographical sketch in the third person to avoid the use of so many “I’s,” which always makes me miserable, you can cut out all that is not to the point. Sincerely yours MARY AUSTIN. [Written] P. S. I am afraid you will be disappointed with the notes but it is the best I can do. [Enclosure. Typewritten]