Education
Royce graduated from the Springfield High School in 1897 but did not attend college.
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He later said that his "only university has been the New York Public Library."
In 1935, Royce was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor and was made an honorary citizen of Issoudun, where "s Louisiana Rabouilleuse was set. Royce worked first in a bookshop in Springfield, before moving to New York where he spent twelve years with the American News Company followed by seven years at Max Harzof"s Lexington Book Shop. According to Harzof, Royce"s "main virtue was that he could be implicitly trusted with bags of uncounted gold".
In 1917 Royce joined the Gabriel Wells bookselling firm where he stayed for over 30 years.
In Wells, Royce met someone with a fascination with as great as his own and the shop became a centre for the sale of all types of iana. lieutenant was Wells who prevented "s house at Passy from destruction.
Royce married Eda Maria Wallin in 1908. They had two daughters, Eva Allen Qoyce and Abbie Anna Royce.
Royce"s papers, including those of the Society of America, are in the library of Syracuse University.
, Immortal. 1926.
A Bibliography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929.
Indexes to A Bibliography.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930. as he should be read. 1946.
Poetry
Remember Pearl Harbor! n.d.
The Bookman"s Lament. n.d.
was Right, A Sonnet Sequence. New York, A. Giraldi, 1943.
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