Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . view quoted above, when Icalled upon him to pay him six thousand dollars, hisshare of the profits. I found him in a small hall room,and paid him over the money that started him on hiscareer now so well known. The small hall room was in a house on VarickStreet, the first to the right hand from Canal Street,between that thoroughfare and St. Johns Park. Inafter-years Artemus paused in one of his sketches tonote with emotion that the house in Varick Street inwhich he used to board was being torn down and thatsome of the timbers,
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . view quoted above, when Icalled upon him to pay him six thousand dollars, hisshare of the profits. I found him in a small hall room,and paid him over the money that started him on hiscareer now so well known. The small hall room was in a house on VarickStreet, the first to the right hand from Canal Street,between that thoroughfare and St. Johns Park. Inafter-years Artemus paused in one of his sketches tonote with emotion that the house in Varick Street inwhich he used to board was being torn down and thatsome of the timbers, converted into canes, were cheapat a dollar. They would have been, indeed, had theyexisted. A week after the publication of the book Vanity Fairhonored its ex-editor with a first-page cartoon showingArtemus Ward as a Popular Lecturer, which he hadbecome. The immediate success of the volume madeit easy for him to pick his ground for platform work,which he did with such skill that there were few failuresto draw. He was his own press agent, and one of the best. [120]. ARTEMTJS WARD AS A PUBLIC LECTURER (Cartoon from Vanity Fair, May 24, 1862) NEW YORK —VANITY FAIR His easy intimacy with the profession and liking for theprinting trade made him steer for the newspaper-officeas soon as he reached a town. That he sometimescalled on others for aid is evidenced by this appeal sentto James R. Osgood, from Waterford, July 29, 1862: Carleton says the newspaper will print it quickerfor the author than for the publisher—as they (you andI know him unjustly) regard publishers as pirates andbloodthirsty robbers. Can you get it into the Postand into the Transcript, which I suppose nobody inBoston can drink tea without. Am I asking too much?Am I a nuisance? Osgood was also an Oxford bear, as natives of thatMaine County like to call themselves, having beenborn in Fryeburg, a few miles west of Waterford. Hewas then beginning a notable career as a publisher inBoston. Search of the Transcript fi
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