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Discussion in detail of writing Bret Harte, Ordeal by Hunger, East of the Giants, Doctor's Orals, Storm, Fire, Names on the Land, and other works; study at Princeton, Berkeley, and Columbia; reviewers, fans, and agents; "mapping out a book"; plays and unfinished work; H. L. Davis, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost; marriage to Theodosia Burton; UC Berkeley: the Faculty Club, loyalty oath ( Year of the Oath), English department. With a supplementary transcribed conversation with CHARLES L. CAMP (1893-1975), Professor of Paleontology, Emeritus, on Western history, The Bancroft Library, the Drake Plate. Appended essays "On Awarding Honors" and "On Dishonesty, Seeming and Real," by Stewart.