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Identifier: memoriesofhostes02howe (find matches)
Title: Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960 Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
Subjects: Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Women -- Massachusetts Boston Diaries Friendship -- Massachusetts Boston Authors, American -- 19th century Biography Actors -- United States Biography Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ad themore he was astounded to find how the facts but passedthrough the alembic of Carlyles brain and had comeout and fitted themselves each as a part of the one greatwhole, making a compact result, indestructible and un-rivalled, and he always found himself turning awayfrom the books of reference and rereading this marvel-lous new growth from those dry bones with renewedwonder. The note from Dickens read : — Gads Hill PlaceHicham by Rochester, KentWednesday Sixth October, 1869 My dear Fields :—■ Delighted to enjoy the prospect of seeing you andyours on Saturday. Wish you had been at Birming-ham. Wish you were not going home. Wish you hadhad nothing to do with the Byron matter.^ Wish Mrs.Stowe was in the pillory. Wish Fechter had gone overwhen he ought. Wish he may not go under when heought nt. With love, Ever affectionately yours, Charles Dickens Mrs. Stowes unhappily historic article on The True Story of LadyByrons Life appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for September, 1869. he.
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Facsimile note from Dickens to Fields WITH DICKENS IN AMERICA 193 Among the papers preserved by Mrs. Fields there are,besides the manuscript letters of Dickens himself, many-letters written after his death by his sister-in-law. MissGeorgina Hogarth. From bits of these, and especiallyfrom a letter written by Dickenss daughter, while hisdeath was still a poignant grief, the affection in whichhe was held in his own household is touchingly imagedforth. All the Old World, wrote Miss Dickens, all theNew World loved him. He never had anything to dowith a living soul without attaching them to him. Ifstrangers could so love him, you can tell a little what hemust have been to his own flesh and blood. It is aglorious inheritance to have such blood flowing in onesveins. I m so glad I have never changed my name. i From one of Miss Hogarths letters a single passagemay be taken, since it adds something of first-handknowledge to the accessible facts about one piece ofDickenss writing which — in so

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