| Other author/creator | Miller, Horace, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Miller, Hannah, inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1920-2011, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994, former owner. |
| Contents |
Introductory: "A memory," by DeLong Rice -- "The fiddle and the bow" -- The paradise of fools -- "Visions and dreams" -- "Love, laughter and song" -- "Sentiment" -- "The old plantation" -- Dixie -- Castles in the air -- Temptation -- Uncle Sam -- Addresses Tennessee centennial -- Notable speeches -- Love letters. |
| Local note | Bookplate attached to inside front cover "Horace & Hannah Miller." Inscribed on front fly-leaf "To Eleanor and Peter Taylor from Hannah Doak Miller ... March 12, 1978." Attached to next page: clipping from Johnson City Press-Chronicle, Friday Evening, January 20, 1978, "Robins Roost ... [home of Robert Love Taylor]." Attached to back fly-leaves: clippings from Johnson City Press-Chronicle: Wednesday Evening, June 2, 1976, "Robert Love Taylor must have been a fantastic speaker," by Tom Hodge; Thursday Evening, March 11, 1976, "A famous lecture of Gov. Bob Taylor remembered," by Tom Hodge; Sunday, January 9, 1972, "JudgeTaylor meet Judge Taylor;" Thursday Evening, April 1, 1976, "Reader recalls when Bob Taylor first ran for election," by Tom Hodge. Attached to back fly-leaf an advertisement for Peter Taylor's play "Stand in the mountains." Laid in: typscript reprint from Library of Southern literature, volume XVI, page 95, : East Tennessee: an apostrophe by Landon C. Haynes. Stuart Wright Book Collection. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Peter Hillsman Taylor Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Between the Covers with the assistance of Stuart Wright, 11/15/2014 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Taylor, Robert L. (Robert Love), 1850-1912. Lectures and best literary productions of Bob Taylor. Nashville, Tenn., The Bob Taylor Pub. Co., 1913 [©1912] |
