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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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orld as Agassiz has done, not to speak of hisuntiring efforts in the other avenues of influence! Itmeans just this, said Holmes : Agassiz will not listento the Darwinian theory; his whole effort is on the otherside. Now Agassiz is no longer young, and I was readingthe other day in a book on the Sandwich Islands ofan old Fejee man who had been carried away amongstrangers, but who prayed he might be carried home,that his brains might be beaten out in peace by his sonaccording to the custom of those lands. It flashed overme then that our sons beat out our brains in the sameway. They do not walk in our ruts of thoughts or beginexactly where we leave off, but they have a new stand-point of their own. At present the Darwinian theorycan be nothing but an hypothesis; the important linksof proof are missing and cannot be supplied; but in them.yriad ages there may be new developments. I thought the young ladies looked a little tired sit-ting, so about nine oclock we left the table — still the
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LOUIiS AGASSIZ DR. HOLMES, FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR 49 talk went on for about four hours when they broke up. With two letters from Dr. Hobnes this rambling chron-icle of his friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Fields must end.The first of the communications is a mere fragment ofhis everyday humor: Beverly-Farms-by-the-Depot July \Mi, 1878Dear Mr. Fields : — The Corner sends me a book directed to me here,but on opening the outside wrapper I read James T.Fields, Esq., Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. The book,which is sealed up (or stuck up, like many authors),measures 7x5, nearly, and is presumably idiotic, likemost books which are sent us without being ordered.Perhaps you have received a similar package whichon opening you found directed to O. W. Holmes, Esq.,Peak of Teneriffe, Boston. If so, when the weathergrows cool again and we can make up our minds to facethe title page of the dreaded volume, we will make anexchange. Always truly yours, O. W. Holmes The second letter, written ten years after D

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