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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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ead a little more I shall try to tell himwhat pleases me mosty — as I suppose like most authorshe likes as many points for his critical self-triangula-tion as will come unasked for. Hawthornes book has been not devoured, but boltedby my children. I have not yet had a chance at it, butI dont doubt I shall read it with as much gusto as they,when my turn comes. When you write tc him, thankhim if you please for me, for I suppose he will hardlyexpect any formal acknowledgment. I bloomed out into a large smile of calm delight onopening the delicate little Epistle Dedicatory where-in your name is embalmed. I cannot remember thatour friend has tried that pace before; he wrote somepleasing lines I remember to Longfellow on the ship inwhich he was to sail when he went to Europe someyears — a good many — ago. Dont be too proud ! \Vait until you get a prose dedi-cation from a poet, ■— if you have not got one already, —and then consider yourself immortal. Yours most truly, O. W. Holmes
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AN EARLY PHOTOGRAPH OF DR. HOLMES DR. HOLMES, FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR 19 This letter contains several provocations to curiosity.Aleck, . . . the most illustrious of all the Smiths,was obviously Alexander Smith, the Scottish poet ofenormous but strictly contemporaneous vogue, in whomthe English reviewers of the time detected a kinship toTennyson, Keats, Shelley, and Shakespeare. George S.Hillards new book was Six Months in Italy, andHawthornes, not devoured, but bolted by theHolmes children, was Tanglewood Tales. The deli-cate little Epistle Dedicatory has been found elu-sive. From this early letter of Dr. Holmes a seven-leaguestep may be taken to a passage in a diary Mrs. Fieldswas writing in i860, — the year following the removalof the Holmes household from Montgomery Place toCharles Street, — before her long unbroken series ofjournals began. The occasion described was one ofthose frequent breakfasts in the Fields dining-room,which bespoke. In the term of a later poet, the wideunhast

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