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Title: Boston days, the city of beautiful ideals; Concord, and its famous authors; the golden age of genius; dawn of the twentieth century
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Whiting, Lilian, 1847-1942
Subjects: American literature
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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more important.He was an educator of public taste. His genial andsympathetic personality made him the centre of a not-able group of authors, both American and English.It was he who brought out the first edition in Americaof Tennysons poems. He published for Thackerayand Dickens. Meantime our American classics —Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Mrs. Stowe,Thoreau, Whipple — were appearing from his house.When over thirty years of age Mr. Fields married MissAnnie Adams, a girl of seventeen, whose character andgifts, as she developed into womanhood, were remark-ably sympathetic with his own. A very beautiful picture of Mrs. Fields, taken in herearly womanhood, was a great favorite of Mr. Long-fellow, a copy of it always remaining on the man-tel of that upper chamber of his house which wasonce Washingtons chamber and in which the poetwrote Hyperion. The hospitable home of Mr. andMrs. Fields has played a notable part in the literarydrama of Boston. In an upper room of their house
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Sarah Ho/land Adams DAWN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 441 Emerson often slept on occasions when he wastheir guest. A note in the diary of Mrs. Fieldsrecords, on one of his visits, that We surrounded thetea-table in the library and he . . . talked much ofthe Grimms. His friendship for Herman Grimm hadextended over many years, and they had an interestingcorrespondence. Mr. Whittier was an always welcome, albeit rathershy, guest among the Boston group. He was often aguest for weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fields,and frequently, too, at the home of Governor andMrs. Claflin. One of the most interesting figures in cosmopolitansociety — for Europe as well as her own country claimsher —is Miss Sarah Holland Adams, a sister of Mrs.Fields, an eminent German translator, and a lady ofthe most exquisite culture. For twenty yearsshe lived abroad, largely in Berlin, where she wasin touch with court circles and the best society ofGermany in the world of thought and letters, andwhere one of her es

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