Memories of a Hostess

Front matter

Reading edition

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)

Mrs. Fields

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

First Impression, October, 1922 Second Impression, December, 1922

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