GERALDINE FARRAR

THE STORY
OF AN AMERICAN SINGER

Photo by Victor GeorgSignature of Geraldine Farrar

GERALDINE FARRAR

THE STORY
OF AN AMERICAN SINGER

BY

HERSELF

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
MDCCCCXVI

COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GERALDINE FARRAR-TELLEGEN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published March 1916

A DEDICATION

In offering these little sketches of some of the interestingevents that have helped shape a careernow fairly familiar to the general public, it hasnot been my intention to weary the indulgentreader with a lengthy dissertation of literary pretension,or tiresome data resulting from the obviousand oft-recurring "I."

From out the storehouse of memory, impressionscrystallized into form without regard totime or place, and it was more than a passingpleasure to jot them down at haphazard; in thequiet of my library, on the flying train, or again,beneath the witchery of California skies, I scribbledas the mood prompted, as I would conversewith an interested and congenial listener.

It is not, perhaps, a New England characteristicto expand in affectionate eulogy for the satisfactionof a curious public, but the threads ofthese recollections are so closely interwoven withmaternal love and devotion, that this volumewould be incomplete without its rightful dedicationto

MY MOTHER

G. F.

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