ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Mrs. Fields Frontispiece
From an early photograph
A Note of Acceptance 9
Autograph of Julia Ward Howe
The Offending Dedication 15
From First Edition of Hawthorne’s “Our Old Home”
An Early Photograph of Dr. Holmes 18
Reduced Facsimile of Dr. Holmes’s 1863 Address to the Alumni of Harvard 23
From the Play-bill of the Night of Dr. Holmes’s “great round fat tear” 24
(Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library)
Facsimile of the Conclusion of Ultimus Smith’s Declaration 26
Mrs. Fields 32
From a crayon portrait made by Rowse in 1863
Fields, the Man of Books and Friendships 34
Louis Agassiz 48
Hawthorne in 1857 54
From a Letter of Hawthorne’s after a Visit to Charles Street 61
Emerson 86
From the Marble Statue by Daniel Chester French in the Concord Public Library
A Corner of the Charles Street Library 98
From a Note of Emerson’s to Mrs. Fields 100
Facsimile of Autograph Inscription on a Photograph of Rowse’s Crayon Portrait of Lowell given to Fields 106
James Russell Lowell 106
From the Crayon Portrait by Rowse in the Harvard College Library
Facsimile of Lowell’s “Bulldog and Terrier” Sonnet 121
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 124
From a Photograph taken in middle life
From a Note of “Dear Whittier” to Mrs. Fields 130
Proposed Dedication of Whittier’s “Among the Hills” to Mrs. Fields 132
Charles Dickens 136
From a portrait by Francis Alexander, for many years in the Fields house, and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
“The Two Charles’s,” Dickens and Fechter 140
(Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library)
Reduced Facsimile of Dickens’s Directions, Preserved among the Fields Papers, for the Brewing of Pleasant Beverages 147
Facsimile Play-bill of “The Frozen Deep,” with Dickens as Actor-Manager 188
(Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library)
Facsimile Note from Dickens to Fields 192
James T. Fields at Fifteen 196
From a drawing by a French Painter
Facsimile Note from Booth to Mrs. Fields 201
Booth as Hamlet 202
Jefferson in the Betrothal Scene of “Rip Van Winkle” 208
A Nast Cartoon of Dickens and Fechter 210
(Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library)
James E. Murdock and William Warren 218
Charlotte Cushman: from a Crayon Portrait 220
(Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library)
Ristori and Fanny Kemble 222
The photograph of Fanny Kemble was taken in Philadelphia in 1863
Christine Nilsson as Ophelia 226
Facsimile Letter from William Morris Hunt to Fields 231
Facsimile Page from an Early Letter of Bret Harte’s 235
Bret Harte and Mark Twain 242
From early photographs
Facsimile Verses and Letter from Mark Twain to Fields 248-9
Charles Sumner 258
From a Letter of Edward Lear’s to Fields 279
Sarah Orne Jewett 282
The Library in Charles Street 284
Mrs. Fields at the Window, Miss Jewett at the right
An Autograph Copy of Mrs. Fields’s “Flammantis Mœnia Mundi” before its Final Revision 287
Mrs. Fields on her Manchester Piazza 288
Mistral, Master of “Boufflo Beel” 294
Reduced Facsimile from Letter of Henry James 299
(Most of the photographs reproduced are in the collections of the Boston Athenæum and the Harvard College Library, to which grateful acknowledgments are made.)