| Mrs. Fields | Frontispiece |
| From an early photograph |
| A Note of Acceptance | 9 |
| Autograph of Julia Ward Howe |
| The Offending Dedication | 15 |
| From First Edition of Hawthorne’s “Our Old Home” |
| An Early Photograph of Dr. Holmes | 18 |
| Reduced Facsimile of Dr. Holmes’s 1863 Address to the Alumni of Harvard | 23 |
| From the Play-bill of the Night of Dr. Holmes’s “great round fat tear” | 24 |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) |
| Facsimile of the Conclusion of Ultimus Smith’s Declaration | 26 |
| Mrs. Fields | 32 |
| From a crayon portrait made by Rowse in 1863 |
| Fields, the Man of Books and Friendships | 34 |
| Louis Agassiz | 48 |
| Hawthorne in 1857 | 54 |
| From a Letter of Hawthorne’s after a Visit to Charles Street | 61 |
| Emerson | 86 |
| From the Marble Statue by Daniel Chester French in the Concord Public Library |
| A Corner of the Charles Street Library | 98 |
| From a Note of Emerson’s to Mrs. Fields | 100 |
| Facsimile of Autograph Inscription on a Photograph of Rowse’s Crayon Portrait of Lowell given to Fields | 106 |
| James Russell Lowell | 106 |
| From the Crayon Portrait by Rowse in the Harvard College Library |
| Facsimile of Lowell’s “Bulldog and Terrier” Sonnet | 121 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 124 |
| From a Photograph taken in middle life |
| From a Note of “Dear Whittier” to Mrs. Fields | 130 |
| Proposed Dedication of Whittier’s “Among the Hills” to Mrs. Fields | 132 |
| Charles Dickens | 136 |
| From a portrait by Francis Alexander, for many years in the Fields house, and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts |
| “The Two Charles’s,” Dickens and Fechter | 140 |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) |
| Reduced Facsimile of Dickens’s Directions, Preserved among the Fields Papers, for the Brewing of Pleasant Beverages | 147 |
| Facsimile Play-bill of “The Frozen Deep,” with Dickens as Actor-Manager | 188 |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) |
| Facsimile Note from Dickens to Fields | 192 |
| James T. Fields at Fifteen | 196 |
| From a drawing by a French Painter |
| Facsimile Note from Booth to Mrs. Fields | 201 |
| Booth as Hamlet | 202 |
| Jefferson in the Betrothal Scene of “Rip Van Winkle” | 208 |
| A Nast Cartoon of Dickens and Fechter | 210 |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) |
| James E. Murdock and William Warren | 218 |
| Charlotte Cushman: from a Crayon Portrait | 220 |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) |
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