Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . record of the incidentsand accidents (if any), and anecdotes of the tripmight prove interesting. I set them down imme-diately, while the impressions were fresh. Theyfollow, with the exception of much which hasbeen used to illustrate previous chapters, and theaddition of a few which subsequent recollectionmade possible. A great deal that I recorded wasnever meant for publication, merely for my ownremembrance. However, I sent the manuscriptentire to Jefferson, who commended certain parts,blue-pencilled and objected to others. He feltsure that
Joseph Jefferson; reminiscences of a fellow player . record of the incidentsand accidents (if any), and anecdotes of the tripmight prove interesting. I set them down imme-diately, while the impressions were fresh. Theyfollow, with the exception of much which hasbeen used to illustrate previous chapters, and theaddition of a few which subsequent recollectionmade possible. A great deal that I recorded wasnever meant for publication, merely for my ownremembrance. However, I sent the manuscriptentire to Jefferson, who commended certain parts,blue-pencilled and objected to others. He feltsure that my eagerness to Include all that hadbeen said and done had made me overlook theultimate effect that the printed form, unaccom-panied by cheerful manner and good feeling, wouldhave upon those concerned, and that he wantedto be as frank with me as if I were at his elbow. My book, he writes a few days later, gaveme my first experience. I told too much. Gilderwarned me. I would not hold back till I saw it in cold type, then I cried Peccavi! and saw 196. iLy-^-^^y^^^^s:d^/i^^.- ^(i^-^ . THE ALL-STAR RIVALS how right he was. I will read you some ofThe Rejected Addresses when we meet, sothat you can judge. On Saturday, November 7th, he writes: Iwill send you the Star Trip. I am still in myoriginal frame of mind regarding it. It puts youin the light of a hero-worshipper and me on atheatrical throne chair with an assumed air ofmodesty, but slyly acquiescing in the praise. Ofcourse I have nothing more to say, and so leaveit for you to decide, except as to certain I feel at liberty to chat about or criticisean actor or actress in writing or in conversation,to indorse the publication of harsh or censurableremarks would place me justly in an unenviableposition. I wrote him that I cared more forhis good opinion than for the publication oftwenty journals, however frankly kept, and thatI had no idea that many of the things set downwould pass muster with him, but that I had letthe
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