Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis

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Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis is edited by Charles Belmont Davis, and its contents list newspaper experiences, travel articles, and plays. The biographical account records Richard Harding Davis's birth in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864. The account describes letters sent to his family during early days at Bethlehem as full of social activities, with occasional references to schoolwork.

A letter dated May 7, 1897 describes a ride from Santa Maura to a place opposite Prevesa where people had said there would be bombardment. The letter's writer thinks the ride may have been the most beautiful of his life, while reporting that the expected bombardment did not occur. Another letter describes riding, marching, and escaping into a lake while aching and preoccupied with orders and commands.

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Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis was an American reporter, fiction writer, and playwright whose energetic accounts helped define the public image of the foreign correspondent at the turn of the twentieth century.