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Upton Sinclair Was Guest of Harry Kemp This Afternoon. ON HIS WAY TO CALIFORNIA. But Stopped Of to See Lawrence's Tramp Poet. Sinclair Is Author of “The Jun gle’ and Other Well Known Nov els—Writing Book Now. Upton, Sinclair, of New York City, novelist, socialist and one of the foremost writers of the present day, was_ ji Lawrence this afternoon the guest of Harry Kemp, the teaip po et. i Mr. Sinclair was on his way to California, but stopped here for the afternoon to meet Kemp and get acquainted with him. Sinclair fist. learned of Kemp through some of his poems a which have appeared in’ the foremost Americanmagazines. ‘The two soon began writing to each other and struck up quite an acquaintanes, al though they had never met. Kemp had intended to visit Sinclair this summer on the Bermuda Islands, but as ‘Mrs. Sinclair was sick he was forced to give up his intended visit. Sinclair is not in the best of health and has been working hard all summer on a new novel, which will be published this winter. It will be the third of the series de scribing the rich men of New York city and the evils of Wall street. ’ Upton Sinclair is probably best known to Lawrence as the author of “The Jungle,”’ the novel describing the packing house districts of Chi cago, which created such ‘ sensation” two years ago and finally fed up to the beef trust investigation. Since then he has issued*‘ The’ Metropoli tan,’ and ‘*The Money Changers.’? Both of these took up New York so ciety. The first describes the utter extravagance of the over-rich, Mr. Sinclair getting his material for the novel by working as a butler in the, home of one of the wealthiest fami lies, for several weeks until his iden tity was discovered and he was dis charged. ‘The Money hangers’ was only issued just a short time ago. It deals With the Wall street problem. Sinclair is an ardent socialist and spent most of the afternoon discuss ing socialism all the cause with Kemp, who is also an ardent believ er in socialism. Sinclair is a young fellow, At first glance he does not look to be over 23 or 24, although he has passed that mark by several years. He is a pleasant talker, although he just can’ keep off his favorite subject, socialism, “I don’t suppose what I would say about the coming election would have much consequence here, as there are so few socialists,” said Sinclair to a World reporter ? but I feel sire the strength of the So cialist Genet will be a surprise. The people are getting tired of the old Parties and are eager for st chnoge. I feel certain that we will poll more than a million and a half votes this fall? Sinclair was very anxious to get acquainted with Kemp and the two went of for a fone walk in the country together the first thing af ter they hit town. Both had been eager to meet the other so the after noon was a pleasant one. This afternoon Sinclair went to the university where he addressed the Press elit, of which Harry Kemp is a member. Sinclair is on his way to Califor nia to visit one of the large gold mines. He wants to see it from personal observation, to use the ma terial in a new novel he is writing.
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Lawrence Daily World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Wed, Oct 07, 1908
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