CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
I PRELIMINARY
II THE HOUSE AND THE HOSTESS
III DR. HOLMES, THE FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR [3]
IV CONCORD AND CAMBRIDGE VISITORS
V WITH DICKENS IN AMERICA [22]
VI STAGE FOLK AND OTHERS
VII SARAH ORNE JEWETT
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
MEMORIES OF A HOSTESS
By the Same Author
BIOGRAPHICAL
- American Bookmen (1898)
- Phillips Brooks (in “Beacon Biographies,” 1899)
- Life and Letters of George Bancroft (1908)
- Life and Labors of Bishop Hare (1911)
- Letters of Charles Eliot Norton (with Sara Norton, 1913)
- George von Lengerke Meyer: His Life and Public Services (1919)
- Memoirs of the Harvard Dead (1920, 1921, ——)
HISTORICAL
- Boston, the Place and the People (1903)
- Boston Common: Scenes from Four Centuries (1910)
- The Boston Symphony Orchestra (1914)
- The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1918)
- The Atlantic Monthly and Its Makers (1919)
VERSE
- Shadows (1897)
- Harmonies (1909)
EDITED
- The Beacon Biographies (31 volumes, 1899-1910)
- The Memory of Lincoln (1899)
- Home Letters of General Sherman (1909)
- Lines of Battle, by Henry Howard Brownell (1912)
- The Harvard Volunteers in Europe (1916)
- A Scholar’s Letters to a Young Lady (1920)
Memories of a Hostess
A CHRONICLE OF
EMINENT FRIENDSHIPS
DRAWN CHIEFLY FROM THE DIARIES OF
Mrs. JAMES T. FIELDS
BY
M. A. DeWOLFE HOWE
“I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn”
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
BOSTON
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE
First Impression, October, 1922
Second Impression, December, 1922
Printed in the
United States of America