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Show LKJ WORLD MOURNS FOR FAMOUS NOVELIST Philadelphia, Jan 6. Among the papers and manuscripts which as recently re-cently as last week occupied the principal energies of Dr. S Weir Mitchell, the famous novelist, poet and physician who died on Sunday, Is an unfinished poem, which Dr. Mitchell was to have read today at a dinner of the Franklin Inn club In commemoration of the birth of Benjamin Ben-jamin Franklin. The dinner had been postponed and most of thoso who had planned to hear It from the mouth of its author today attended the funeral. Hundreds of telegrams and letters of condolence poured Into the Mitchell Mitch-ell residence yesterday from all parts of the world. |