Lorado

Touring happily through MX from Nuervo Lorado (sp), getting lost, finding our way, who cared ... enjoying the sites with five months ahead of us.

Grand Plaza - Acapulco 2005

Lorado was not markedly favorable to me as a brother-in-law.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

Midland Arts. Feeling very keenly the lack of such a rendezvous I said to Lorado, "I believe the time has come when a successful literary and artistic club can be established and maintained."

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

Lorado said, "A Honeymoon in the heart of the Rockies is just like you" -- but I cared nothing for his gibes so long as Zulime was content, and I had but to over-hear her account of her trip to be reassured.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

In calling upon Lorado one afternoon soon after my return to Chicago I was surprised and a little disconcerted to find two strange young ladies making themselves very much at home in his studio.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

He was a singular character, as improvident as Lorado but in a far different way.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

Lorado wrote, "and as soon as you get back, Mr. Heckman wants to take us all out to look at the site for the proposed camp."

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

None of his children appeared interested in his allusions to Hammurabi or Charlemagne, on the contrary, monologues of any kind were taboo in the artistic circles where Lorado reigned.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

To be honest about it, mother, I am not sure that she is interested in me even now; although one of her friends has just written me to say that Lorado was mistaken, and that Zulime is not engaged to any one.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

My thoughts often returned to the friendly circle in Taft's studio, and late in February I was keenly interested in a letter from Lorado in which he informed me that Wallace Heckman, Attorney for The Art

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900