A much misunderstood man:

selected letters of Ambrose Bierce

Ohio State University Press, 2003 - Literary Collections - 258 pages

"The letters reveal many sides of Bierce that he deliberately concealed in his literary work: the caring father who keenly felt the deaths of his two sons and took constant interest in the welfare of his only daughter; the literary giant of San Francisco who gathered around him a substantial cadre of disciples whose work he encouraged and meticulously criticized; the vigorous castigator of chicanery, hypocrisy, and injustice wherever he saw it; and the author of coyly flirtatious letters to a number of female correspondents. For the first time, a well-rounded picture of Bierce the man and writer emerges in his own words. The volume ends chillingly with Bierce's last surviving letter, written from Chihuahua, Mexico, on December 26, 1913, which concludes: "As for me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination." Bierce was never heard from again.".

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Selected pages

To Clara Wright 8 June 1864	1

To Bret Harte December 1870	3

To John H Carmany February 1871?	4

To John H Carmany 15 March 1871	5

To Timothy H Rearden 8 January 1872	6

To Charles Warren Stoddard 29 December 1872	7

To Charles Warren Stoddard 16 March 1873	8

To Charles Warren Stoddard 28 September 1873	10

To Robert H Davis 12 October 1904	128

To Herman Scheffauer 4 5 November 1904	129

To George Sterling 18 February 1905	131

To Herman Scheffauer 10 April 1905	132

To George Sterling 16 May 1905	135

To Myles Walsh 6 June 1905	136

To George Sterling 16 June 1905	137

To S O Howes 17 September 1905	140

To Charles Warren Stoddard 22 November 1873	11

To Charles Warren Stoddard January 1874?	12

To Charles Warren Stoddard 26 April 1874	13

To Charles Warren Stoddard 4 July 1874	14

To Charles Warren Stoddard 2 June 1875	15

To Laura Bierce 13 February 1876	16

To Laura Bierce 30 April 1876	17

To Helen Bierce 2 April 1885	18

To John H Boalt 16 April 1885	19

To Sergt Abe Dills 13 August 1887	20

To Helen Bierce September 1890?	21

To Ella Sterling Cummins 13 March 1892	22

To Blanche Partington 31 July 1892	23

To Blanche Partington 15 August 1892	24

To Blanche Partington 17 August 1892	26

To Blanche Partington 28 September 1892	28

To Blanche Partington 25 December 1892	29

To Blanche Partington 9 January 1893	30

To Gustav Adolphe Danziger 1 February 1893	31

To Blanche Partington 5 February 1893	33

To Gustav Adolphe Danziger 11 February 1893	34

To James Tufts 16 April 1893	35

To Percival Pollard 22 April 1893	36

To Blanche Partington 26 April 1893	37

To Percival Pollard 20 July 1893	38

To Stone Kimball 7 November 1893	39

To Stone Kimball 4 December 1893	40

To Mrs E L G Steele 3 July 1894?	41

To Carroll Carrington 26 June 1895	42

To Herman Scheffauer 12 August 1895	43

To Ray Frank 5 September 1895	45

To Lily Walsh 13 October 1895	47

To C W Doyle 22 November 1895	48

To C W Doyle 22 December 1895	49

To Myles Walsh 16 February 1896	50

To C W Doyle 22 March 1896	51

To C W Doyle 25 May 1896	52

To Ray Frank 30 October 1896	53

To C W Doyle 8 February 1897	54

To Edwin Markham 19 May 1897	55

To Ray Frank 3 October 1897	56

To Percival Pollard 12 October 1897	58

To C W Doyle 26 December 1897	59

To Jean Hazen 16 March 1898	60

To Percival Pollard 8 January 1899	62

To Eleanor Vore 27 January 1899	63

To Edwin Markham 14 March 1899	64

To Edmund Clarence Stedman 19 March 1899	65

ToS O Howes 4 May 1899	67

To S G Blythe 27 November 1899	68

To Herman Scheffauer 8 June 1900	69

To Gustav Adolphe Danziger 21 August 1900	70

To Herman Scheffauer 1 December 1900	72

To Gustav Adolphe Danziger late December 1900?	74

To C W Doyle 23 January 1901	75

To Herman Scheffauer 29 March 1901	77

To Herman Scheffauer 2 April 1901	78

To Myles Walsh 7 September 1901	79

To George Sterling 16 December 1901	80

To George Sterling 15 March 1902	82

To Robert H Davis summer 1902?	86

To George Sterling 10 July 1902	87

To Herman Scheffauer 2 August 1902	88

To Herman Scheffauer September 1902?	90

To Herman Scheffauer 5 October 1902	92

To Herman Scheffauer 23 October 1902	94

To Herman Scheffauer 5 February 1903	98

To George Sterling 1 March 1903	99

To Herman Scheffauer 27 March 1903	100

To Herman Scheffauer 6 May 1903?	103

To George Sterling 13 June 1903	104

To Herman Scheffauer July 1903	106

To Herman Scheffauer 4 August 1903	109

To George Sterling 12 September 1903	110

To Herman Scheffauer 27 September 1903	111

To Herman Scheffauer 12 October 1903	113

To Herman Scheffauer 11 November 1903	114

To George Sterling 8 January 1904	115

To George Sterling 31 January 1904	117

To Herman Scheffauer 12 February 1904	118

To George Sterling 29 February 1904	120

To Herman Scheffauer 20 March 1904	122

To George Sterling 11 May 1904	123

To Herman Scheffauer 17 July 1904	124

To George Sterling 4 August 1904	125

To George Sterling 5 October 1904	126

To S O Howes 4 November 1905	141

To John OHara Cosgrave 19 November 1905	142

To George Harvey 19 November 1905	144

To George Sterling 3 December 1905	145

To George Sterling 3 February 1906	146

To George Sterling 12 March 1906	147

To George Sterling 20 April 1906	149

To George Sterling 6 May 1906	150

To S O Howes 9 June 1906	152

To George Sterling 11 June 1906	153

To William Randolph Hearst 12 October 1906	155

To Perriton Maxwell 23 November 1906	156

ToS O Howes 19 February 1907	157

To George Sterling 21 February 1907	158

To George Sterling 11 June 1907	159

To William Randolph Hearst 8 July 1907	160

To William Randolph Hearst 13 July 1907	161

To George Sterling 17 August 1907	162

To George Sterling 7 September 1907	164

To Herman Scheffauer 30 September 1907	165

To W C Morrow 9 October 1907	166

To Robert H Davis 13 October 1907	167

To James D Blake 29 October 1907?	169

To Helen Bierce Cowden 14 November 1907	170

To S O Howes 30 November 1907 1 December 1907	171

To S S Chamberlain 22 March 1908	172

To S O Howes 24 March 1908	173

To William Randolph Hearst 30 March 1908	174

To Herman Scheffauer 31 March 1908	175

To Walter Neale 28 April 1908	178

To George Sterling 8 May 1908	179

To William Randolph Hearst 18 May 1908	180

To William Randolph Hearst 23 May 1908	182

To Walter Neale 7 June 1908	183

To George Sterling 11 July 1908	185

To George Sterling 14 August 1908	187

To George Sterling 6 November 1908	189

To Herman Scheffauer 10 January 1909	190

To William Randolph Hearst 7 March 1909	191

To George dUtassy 23 March 1909	193

To Harry Cowden 8 August 1909	194

To S O Howes 6 September 1909	196

To George Sterling 29 January 1910	198

To S O Howes 7 March 1910	199

To George Sterling 7 March 1910	201

To Walter Neale 24 May 1910	202

To Walter Neale 15 July 1910	203

To George Sterling 1 September 1910	204

To William E Connelley 4 October 1910	205

To Lora Bierce 29 November 1910	206

To George Sterling 15 February 1911	207

To Ruth Robertson 1 March 1911	209

To Colonel Archibald Gracie 9 March 1911	210

To Walter Neale 22 March 1911	212

To Samuel Loveman 28 May 1911	213

To George Sterling 31 July 1911	214

ToS O Howes 17 September 1911	215

To George Sterling 29 September 1911	216

To Walter Neale 21 October 1911	217

To George Sterling 16 November 1911	218

To Mrs Percival Pollard 17 December 1911	219

To Walter Neale 3 January 1912	220

To George Sterling 25 April 1912	221

To Walter Neale 22 May 1912	222

ToS O Howes 14 June 1912	223

To Walter Neale 2 July 1912	224

To the Editor of Town Talk 6 August 1912	225

To George Sterling 9 September 1912	226

To Blanche Partington 8 November 1912	227

To Walter Neale 8 January 1913	228

To Walter Neale 23 January 1913	232

To Helen Bierce Cowden 27 January 1913	234

To H L Mencken 21 April 1913	235

To Willard Huntington Wright 9 May 1913	236

To Amy L Wells 13 June 1913	237

To Amy L Wells 10 July 1913	238

To Amy L Wells 5 August 1913	239

To Helen Bierce Cowden 10 September 1913	240

To Eleanor Vore Sickler 21 September 1913	241

To Amy L Wells 21 September 1913	242

To Lora Bierce 1 October 1913	243

To Helen Bierce Cowden 4 November 1913	244

Bibliography	247

Index	249

Copyright

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About the author (2003)

Ambrose Bierce was a brilliant, bitter, and cynical journalist. He is also the author of several collections of ironic epigrams and at least one powerful story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Bierce was born in Ohio, where he had an unhappy childhood. He served in the Union army during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a columnist for the newspaper the Examiner, for which he wrote a number of satirical sketches. Bierce wrote a number of horror stories, some poetry, and countless essays. He is best known, however, for The Cynic's Word Book (1906), retitled The Devil's Dictionary in 1911, a collection of such cynical definitions as "Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." Bierce's own marriage ended in divorce, and his life ended mysteriously. In 1913, he went to Mexico and vanished, presumably killed in the Mexican revolution.

DAVID E. SCHULTZ is a technical editor with an environmental engineering firm. He has edited a critical edition of H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book (1987), and with S. T. Joshi has edited various annotated editions of Lovecraft's letters. He and Joshi also compiled Ambrose Bierce: A Bibliography of Primary Sources (Greenwood, 1999).

Bibliographic information

Title	A much misunderstood man: selected letters of Ambrose Bierce
Author	Ambrose Bierce
Editors	Sunand T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz
Publisher	Ohio State University Press, 2003
ISBN	081420919X, 9780814209196
Length	258 pages
Subjects	Literary Collections › Letters Biography & Autobiography / Literary Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism Literary Collections / Letters

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