The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature

Ella Sterling Mighels

Jan 1893 · Cooperative Printing Company

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Keynote: Aware that this "Story of the Files" of Californian magazines and journals, is, like all things human, far from being perfect, the author has only to say that it has been prepared mainly for the purpose of preserving the names, pictures and histories of the writers of long ago, those who are now dead and forgotten. The record of the writers of today may be added to and bettered by him who comes after. In these words of one of the brightest of the old-time journalists is to be found the pervading spirit of the "Story of the Files:" "No matter where uttered, a great thought never dies. It does not perish amid the snows of mountains, or the floods of rivers, or in the depths of valleys. For a time it may seemingly be forgotten, but it is somewhere embalmed in memory, and after awhile reappears on the horizon like a long-gone star returning on its unchanging orbit, and on its way around the endless circle of eternity."--October 1892, San Francisco, California.