Scrapbook, "Poets and Humorists of the American Press: Autobiography of Thomas A. Daly"

Scrapbook, "Poets and Humorists of the American Press: Autobiography of Thomas A. Daly"

Autobiography of Daly as told through lines from his diary. On March 6, 1891, he wrote, "A negro dialect sketch that I submitted to the editor yesterday is in this morning’s paper," and the next day "the managing editor hunted [him] up to-day and told [him] the dialect sketch in yesterday's paper really was 'literature,' and that [he] should be in the editorial department. He [the editor] was perfectly sober at the time." Just four days after the piece was originally published, Daly wrote that the editor gave him a job, and he was to begin working on March 11, 1891. The next day the managing editor approached him and told him it was “literature” and by March 10, 1891, he had a job. A diary entry for April 1905 is included in this piece and June 1905, the next diary entry, is listed as "anticipated." This article was likely published between these two dates.

Daly returned to racial caricatures when he published an article on William and Julia Moulden in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in 1936.

Thomas A. Daly

1905

Newspaper clipping in a scrapbook

English