M. A. DeWolfe Howe

Biographer and editor whose roots go back to Bristol, Rhode Island, MARK ANTONY DEWOLFE HOWE is the oldest and dearest of Atlantic contributors, having made his first appearance in our columns sixty-three years ago last spring. Mr. Howe published his autobiography, A Venture in Remembrance, at the age of seventy-seven. Then as the light began to fail he was more and more confined to his apartment on Louisburg Square; here he has continued to write his poems and his essays, and, when blindness made reading impossible, he has enjoyed the companionship of Talking Books.

Biographer and editor whose roots go back to Bristol, Rhode Island, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE HOWE is the Dean of Atlantic contributors, having made his first appearance in our columns sixty years ago last spring. Mr. Howe published his autobiography, A Venture in Remembrance, at the age of seventy-seven; in the dozen years intervening, despite the physical handicaps which accompany his sapience, he has worked with unflagging zeal at six books and a postscript to his reminiscences, from which we have selected these appealing pages.