INDEX

Page numbers set in bold-faced type indicate, generally speaking, the more important references to the persons concerned. As a complete list of the pages on which Mr. or Mrs. Fields, or both, are mentioned would include substantially the whole book, only a few of the more significant references to them have been selected for inclusion under their names.

Adams, Annie, marries J. T. F., 11.

And see Fields, Annie.

Adams, Charles F., Jr., 278.

Adams, Lizzie, 20.

Adams, Zabdiel B., 11.

Agassiz, Alexander, 256, 257, 258.

Agassiz, Elizabeth C., 159.

Agassiz, Louis, 48, 93, 105, 141.

Alcott, A. Bronson, 63, 72-77, 81, 82, 95.

Alcott, Mrs. A. Bronson, 63.

Alcott, Louisa M., 73.

Alden, Henry M., 57, 89.

Aldrich, Lilian (Woodman), 126, 203, 229, 290.

Aldrich, Thomas B., 11, 116, 126 and n., 127, 197 ff., 226-229, 290, 291-293.

Andrew, John A., 11, 36 n., 302.

Andrew, Mrs. John A., 28, 213, 214.

Appleton, Thomas Gold, 115, 116, 126, 152, 154, 209, 211, 212, 213, 216, 246, 253.

Aristotle, 133.

Arnold, Matthew, 288.

Astor, John Jacob, 76, 77.

Atlantic Monthly, 6, 13, 14, 107, 111, 191 n., 209, 233, 252, 281, 282, 302.

Bacon, Francis, Lord, 112.

Baker, Sir Samuel, 149.

Barbauld, Anna L. A., 101.

Barker, Fordyce, 151, 185.

Barlow, Francis C., 61.

Barrett, Lawrence, 240.

Bartol, Cyrus A., 114, 215, 239.

Beal, James H., 143.

Beal, Louisa (Adams), 42, 143.

Beal, Thomas, 199.

Beecher, Henry Ward, 89, 224, 263, 267-269, 270.

Bell, Helen (Choate), 98, 143, 288.

Bellows, Henry W., 199.

Bentzon, Th. See Blanc, Marie T.

Bigelow, George T., 36.

Bigelow, Mr. and Mrs., 143, 144.

Blagden, Isa, 260.

Blake, Harrison G. O., 89, 90.

Blanc, Marie Thérèse, 288, 289, 293.

Blessington, Countess of, 274.

Blumenbach, Johann F., 128, 129.

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 58.

Booth, Edwin, 28, 198-203, 210, 240-241.

Booth, J. Wilkes, 28, 198, 199.

Booth, Junius Brutus, 196.

Booth, Mary (Mrs. Edwin), 241.

Booth, Mary A. (Mrs. J. B.), 198.

Boswell, James, 60.

Boutwell, George S., 89.

Bradford, George, 81, 82, 90.

Bright, John, 177.

Brontë, Charlotte, 131, 266.

Brooks, Phillips, 36 n., 94, 288.

Brown, John, Pet Marjorie, 59.

Browne, Charles F., 21.

Brownell, Henry Howard, 29.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 270.

Browning, Robert, 43, 142, 260, 269.

Brunetière, Ferdinand, 288.

Bryant, William Cullen, 239, 257.

“Buffalo Bill.” See Cody, W. F.

Bugbee, James M., 126.

Bull, Ole, 225.

Burr, Aaron, 270, 271.

Butler, Benjamin F., 95.

Cabot, Mrs., 236.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 110.

Carleton, G. W., 233.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 75, 142, 220.

Carlyle, Thomas, 73, 75, 79, 89, 141, 142, 165, 167, 190, 191, 220.

Channing, W. Ellery, 81, 98, 114.

Cheney, Arthur, 216.

Cheney, Ednah D., 114.

Child, Lydia M., 265, 266.

Childs, George W., 64.

Choate, Rufus, 288.

Cicero, 45.

Clapp, Henry, 185.

Clarke, James Freeman, 72, 114.

Clarke, Sara, 205.

Clemens, Samuel L., 232, 233, 244-257, 305.

Clemens, Mrs. S. L., 245 ff.

Cobden, Richard, 177.

Cody, William F., 294.

Colchester (medium), 168, 169, 170.

Collins, Charles, 168.

Collins, Mrs. Charles (daughter of Dickens), 190.

Collins, W. Wilkie, 145, 189.

Collyer, Robert, 215.

Conway, Judge, 219.

Cooke, George W., 120.

Crabbe, George, 186.

Crawford, Thomas, 264.

Crawford, Mrs. Thomas, 264, 265.

Cubas, Isabella, 22, 23.

Curtis, George William, 14, 33, 184, 188.

Curtis, Mrs. G. W., 14.

Cushing, Caleb, 266, 267.

Cushman, Charlotte, 123, 219-222.

Dana, Charlotte, 161.

Dana, Richard H., Jr., 93, 95, 116, 144, 250, 278.

Dana, Mrs. R. H., Jr. 92, 93.

Dana, Sallie, 161.

Daniel, George, 95.

Dante Alighieri, 258.

Davidson, Edith, 99.

Davis, George T., 19, 20.

Dennet, of the Nation, 127.

De Normandie, James, 81.

Dewey, Dr., 219.

Dickens, Bessy, 194.

Dickens, Catherine (Hogarth), 160.

Dickens, Charles, in America, 138-188;

his readings, 140, 144, 145, 152, 157, 171, 172, 181, 182;

letters of, to J. T. F., 150, 191; 12, 32, 33, 118, 119, 120, 135-195, 209, 210, 211, 212, 223, 240.

Dickens, Charles, Jr., 194.

Dickens, John, 175.

Dickens, Mary: quoted, 193; 140, 164, 169, 194.

Dickinson, Lowes, 232.

Dodge, Mary Abigail, 144, 220, 221.

Dolby, George, 136, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 149, 150, 161, 162, 165, 166, 171, 173, 178, 180, 185, 189, 190.

Donne, Father, 102.

Donne, John, 95.

Dorr, Charles, 149, 209.

Dorr, Mrs. Charles, 35, 149, 150, 209, 215.

Dryden, John, 109.

Dufferin, Earl of, 163.

Dumas, Alex., 211.

Dumas, Alex., fils., 211.

Du Maurier, George, 300.

Dunn, Rev. Mr., 122.

Ecce Homo, 167.

Eliot, Charles W., 41.

Eliotson, Dr., 182, 183.

Ellsler, Fanny, 24.

Emerson, Edith, 89, 91.

And see Forbes, Edith (Emerson).

Emerson, Edward W., 94, 103, 104.

Emerson, Ellen, 88, 94, 96, 97, 99, 100, 103, 104.

Emerson, Lilian (Jackson), letter of, to Mrs. F., 88; 61, 62, 89, 94, 95, 99, 101, 203.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, letter of, to J. T. F., 87; 14, 15 n., 24, 61, 62, 67, 73, 74, 79, 83, 84, 86-105, 130, 131, 141, 158, 161, 165, 203, 206, 238, 239, 289.

Emerson, W. R., 219.

England, Hawthorne on, 59, 60.

Everett, Edward, 116, 270, 271.

Everett, William, 270.

Every Saturday, 197.

Falstaff, Sir John, 110.

Fechter, Charles, 139, 146, 148, 149, 159, 179, 190, 191, 209 ff.

Field, John W., 124.

Field, Kate, 152, 259, 260, 261.

Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones, 110, 111.

Fields, Annie, disposition of her papers, 3;

her Journals, 4, 12;

H. James quoted on, 5;

marriage, 11;

her neighbors, 11;

and Leigh Hunt, 15, 16;

letter of Holmes to, on her memorial volume, 50, 51;

her books, 53;

H. James, Sr., quoted on, 85;

“Thunderbolt Hill,” 101;

her character as revealed in her diary, 132-134;

her championship of Dickens, 156, 157;

the variety of her friendships, 196 ff.;

her ode for the installation of the Music Hall organ, 219, 220, 221;

with J. T. F., visits Mark Twain at Hartford, 246 ff.;

and the cause of equal rights for women, 275, 278;

her skill in digesting reports of conversations, 279, 280;

her intimate friendship with Miss Jewett, 281 ff.;

her poetry, 285, 286;

list of her published prose works, 286;

friends of her later years, 288;

travelling with Miss Jewett, 289 ff.;

and the President of Haiti, 290, 291;

visits Mistral, 293-297;

visits H. James, Jr., at Rye, 297-301;

quoted, on Miss Jewett, 302;

her last years, 301, 305;

the last words in her diary, 305;

her death, 305.

James T. Field: Biographical Notes, 4, 13, 16, 50;

Authors and Friends, 4, 31, 86, 87, 105, 129, 134, 279;

A Shelf of Old Books, 12 n.;

Hawthorne, 54.

Fields, Eliza J. (Willard), 11.

Fields, James T., early days in Boston, 10, 11, 196;

marries Annie Adams, 11;

their home on Charles St., 11, 12, 137, 138, 218, 219;

editor of the Atlantic, 14, 58, 67, 87, 107, 111, 119, 191 n., 233, 282;

as raconteur, 21;

Holmes quoted on his position in the literary world, 34;

retires from business, 40;

H. James, Sr., quoted on, 85;

his love of the theatre and stage folk, 196, 197;

his death, 280;

fosters Mrs. F.’s friendship with Miss Jewett, 283.

Yesterdays with Authors, 4, 54, 55, 62, 137, 176 n., 190.

Fields, Osgood & Co., 10.

Fiske, John, 48.

Forbes, Edith (Emerson), 91.

Forbes, William H., 91.

Forrest, Edwin, 207, 218.

Forrest, Mrs. Edwin, 218.

Forster, John, 154, 160, 163, 171, 213.

Foster, Charlotte, 259.

Frothingham, Octavius B., 274.

Froude, James A., 68, 293.

Fuller, Margaret, 24, 239.

Fulton, J. D., 122.

Furness, William H., 101 n., 102, 103.

Garrett (impressario), 214.

Gaskell, Elizabeth C. S., 131.

Godwin, Mrs. William, 16.

Goethe, Johann W. von, Wilhelm Meister, 132, 133.

Gorges, Sir F., 74.

Gounod, Charles, 44.

Grant, Julia Dent, 159.

Grant, Ulysses S., 159, 262.

Grau, Maurice, 222.

Greene, George W., 19, 20, 44, 45, 47, 126, 141, 256, 258, 260.

Gregory, Lady, 218.

Guiney, Louise Imogen, 288.

Haiti, President of, 290, 291.

Hale, Edward E., 93.

Hale, John P., 261.

Hallam, Henry, 89.

Hamilton, Gail. See Dodge, Mary Abigail.

Hammersley, Mr., 247.

Harper’s Weekly, 14.

Harris, William T., 81.

Harte, F. Bret, 117, 233-243.

Harte, Mrs. F. B., 239, 240.

Harvard College, Commemoration Day at, 36 n.

Hawthorne, Julian, 15, 144.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, death of, 27, 28, 67;

letters of, to J. T. F., 54, 55, 56;

his last letter, 65-67; 13, 14, 15 and n., 18, 19, 30, 32, 33, 54-72, 97, 105, 127, 236.

Hawthorne, Sophia (Peabody), letter to Mrs. F. on Hawthorne, 70-72; 61, 65, 66, 67, 68, 91, 144, 246.

Hawthorne, Una, 15, 97, 221.

Hawthorne, E. M., sister of Nathaniel, 69.

Hayes, Isaac I., 33, 34.

Herbert, George, 95.

Herrick, Robert, 95.

Higginson, Thomas W., 114.

Hill, Thomas, 92.

Hillard, George S. 17, 18, 19, 143.

Hoar, Ebenezer R., 37, 90, 91, 141.

Hogarth, Georgina, quoted, 193, 194; 140, 155, 165, 195.

Holmes, Amelia (Jackson), 30, 34, 39, 40, 41, 51, 153, 203, 213, 214, 221.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, his relations with the Fieldses, generally, 17-52;

letters of, to J. T. F., 17, 49,

and to Mrs. F., 50; 11, 13, 54, 90, 94, 96, 110, 111 n., 115, 116, 117, 118, 135, 141, 142, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208, 221, 256, 257, 273, 288.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 21, 31.

Home (medium), 163, 168.

Horace, 238.

Howe, Julia Ward, 9, 10, 61, 90, 114 and n., 221.

Howe, Laura (Mrs. Richards), 150.

Howe, Samuel G., 219, 273.

Howells, William D., 38, 116, 166.

Howes, Miss, 236.

Howison, George H., 81.

Hunt, Henry, 48.

Hunt, Leigh, 15, 16, 58, 122.

Hunt, T. Sterry, 199.

Hunt, William M., 96, 97-99, 230, 232.

Hunt, Mrs. W. M., 96, 98, 222, 230.

Hyacinthe, Père, 44.

Ingelow, Jean, 142.

Jackson, Charles T., 94 and n.

James, Alice, 77, 81, 83.

James, George Abbot, 42.

James, Henry, Sr., letter of, to J. T. F., 82,

and to Mrs. F., 83, 85; 72-85.

James, Mrs. Henry, 75, 77, 81.

James, Henry, Jr., quoted, 6, 7, 137, 281;

letter of, to author, 8, 9; 119, 120, 297-301.

Jan (Booth’s servant), 200, 202.

Jefferson, Joseph, 203-208, 247.

Jewett, Sarah Orne, her intimate relations with Mrs. F., 281 ff., 302-304;

her early days, 281, 282;

her literary work, 282-284;

correspondence with Mrs. F., 288, 289;

H. James on her work, 300;

her death, 302; 12, 50.

Johnson, Andrew, impeachment of, 159; 261, 262, 263.

Johnson, Samuel, 60.

Jonson, Ben, 96.

Julius Cæsar, 45.

Keats, John, 43, 68, 206, 207.

Kellogg, Elijah, 271, 272.

Kemble, Charles, 196.

Kemble, Frances Anne, 196, 222, 223, 224

Kennard, Mr., 267, 268.

King, Preston, 262, 263.

Kirkup, Seymour S., 258.

Knowlton, Helen M., 232.

Lamartine, Alphonse de, 296, 297.

Lamb, Charles, 270.

Landor, Walter Savage, 259-261.

Langdon, Mr., Mark Twain’s father-in-law, 245.

Langdon, Mrs., 246.

Larcom, Lucy, 70.

Lathrop, George P., 97.

Lathrop, Rose (Hawthorne), quoted, 67 n.; 97, 144.

Lear, Edward, 280.

Leclercq, Carlotta, 216.

Lemaître, Frédérick, 178, 179, 180, 211.

Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of, 28, 198; 55, 56, 77, 262, 263.

Livermore, Mary A., 275-278.

Locke, David R., 33.

Longfellow, Alice, 42, 96, 224.

Longfellow, Charles, 128, 216.

Longfellow, Edith, 42, 213, 214.

Longfellow, Mrs. Ernest W., 42.

Longfellow, Henry W., 13, 19, 33, 34, 35, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 60 and n., 90, 96, 97, 98, 99, 109, 115, 116, 117, 119, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 141, 144, 152, 153, 159, 160, 161, 172, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212 and n., 213, 214, 215, 216, 222, 223, 224, 243, 256, 257, 258, 273.

Longfellow, Mrs. H. W., 55, 223.

Longfellow, Samuel, 42, 212 n.

Loring, Charles G., 36 n.

Lowell, Frances (Dunbar), 123, 124.

Lowell, James Russell, letters of, to J. T. F., 107, 108, 112, 113, 120, 141 n.; 5, 13, 33, 34, 35, 36 n., 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 104, 105, 106, 107 ff., 116, 117, 123, 124, 126, 127, 149, 159, 163, 164, 166, 243, 273.

Lowell, Mabel, 107, 113, 123, 124, 149.

Lunt, George, 214.

Luther, Martin, 89.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Lord, 168, 176, 177.

Macready, William, 218.

Maistre, Joseph de, 221.

Mars, Anne F. H., 210, 211.

Mathews, Charles, 207.

Merivale, Herman, 95.

Miller, Joaquin, 43, 126.

Milton, John, 74.

Mistral, Frédéric, 293-297.

Mistral, Mme. Frédéric, 295, 296, 297.

Mitchell, Donald G., 185.

Mitford, Mary R., 98.

Montaigne, Michel de, 112, 238, 239.

Morton, W. T. G., 94 and n.

Motley, J. Lothrop, 37.

Mott, Lucretia C., 74.

Murdoch, James E., 217, 218.

Music Hall, Boston, great organ in, 219, 220, 221.

“Nasby, Petroleum V.” See Locke, D. R.

Nichol, Professor, 90.

Nilsson, Christine, 214, 224-226.

Norton, Caroline (Sheridan), 46.

Norton, Charles Eliot, 92, 103, 104, 141, 144, 172, 185, 187.

Norton, Mrs. C. E., 163.

O’Brien, Fitz-James, 227-229.

O’Connell, Daniel, 173, 176, 177.

Orsay, Count d’, 145.

Osgood, James R., 116, 136, 151, 153, 161, 162, 165, 166, 167, 185.

Parker, Harvey D., 206.

Parkman, Francis, 104, 105.

Parkman, Mrs. Francis, 35.

Parkman, George, murder of, 153.

Parsons, Thomas W., 208, 214.

Parton, James, 110, 111, 232.

Peabody, Elizabeth, 82, 119.

Pedro, Dom, Emperor of Brazil, 127, 128.

Perabo, Ernst, 224.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 275.

Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard (1868), 36, 37; 92.

Phillips, Wendell, 89, 114.

Phipps, Colonel, 188, 189.

Pickwick, Mr., 111.

Pierce, Franklin, Hawthorne’s loyalty to, 13, 14, 15; 57, 58, 67.

Pierce, Mrs. Franklin, death of, 57, 58.

Pierce, Henry L., 229, 290.

Poore, Ben Perle, 266.

Pratt, Mrs. Ellerton, 288.

Prescott, Harriet (Mrs. Spofford), 58.

Putnam, George, 36 n., 213.

Putnam, John P., 221.

Quincy, Edmund, 86, 273.

Quincy, Josiah, 85, 275, 276, 277.

Quincy, Josiah P., 86, 92, 93.

Quincy, Mrs. Josiah P., 92.

Quixote, Don, 110.

Radical Club, 114.

Raymond, John T., 253.

Read, John M., 31, 32.

Read, T. Buchanan, 44.

Reade, Charles, 146.

Rip Van Winkle, 111.

Ripley, Miss, 88.

Ripley, Mrs., 91.

Ristori, Adelaide, 222.

Rogers, Samuel, 185.

Rossetti, Christina, 97.

Rowse, Samuel W., 152.

Russell, Thomas, 261.

Sanborn, F. B., 68.

Saturday Club, 104, 105, 116 and n.

Schurz, Carl, 266.

Scott-Siddons, Mrs., 110.

Seward, William H., 28, 219, 267.

Shaw, Lemuel, 232.

Shaw, Robert G., 14, 24.

Shelley, Percy B., 16.

Sherman, William T., 77.

Shiel, Mr., 173, 176.

Silsbee, Mrs., 95, 143.

Smith, Alexander, 17, 19.

Smith, Samuel F., 47.

Smith, Sydney, 89, 257.

Somerset, Duchess of, 46.

Stanley, Edward G. S. S. (afterward 14th Earl of Derby), 173, 174, 175.

Stanton, Edwin M., 267.

Stephen, Leslie, 95.

Sterling, John, 75.

Stone, Lucy, 114.

Story, William W., 116.

Stothard, Thomas, 190.

Stowe, Calvin E., 272.

Stowe, “Georgie,” 38, 39.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 38, 39, 61, 191 and n., 268, 272.

Sumner, Charles, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 77, 105, 219, 258-267.

Taylor, Bayard, 109, 110, 111, 116, 117, 118, 119, 228, 266.

Taylor, Mrs. Bayard, 109, 110, 111.

Tennent, Sir Emerson, 153.

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 254, 279.

Tennyson, Lady, 279.

Terry, Ellen, 218, 300, 301.

Thackeray, William M., 32, 33, 111, 154, 266.

Thaxter, Celia, 98, 129-131, 152, 154, 288.

Thompson, Launt, 198.

Thoreau, Helen, 62, 74.

Thoreau, Henry D., 14, 62, 68, 74, 89, 90.

Thoreau, Sophia, 68.

Thoreau, Mrs. (mother of H. D. T.), 62, 68, 74.

Ticknor, William D., 63 ff.

Ticknor and Fields, 10.

Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 17.

Towne, Alice, 45.

Towne, Helen, 45.

Townshend, Chauncey, 169.

Trimble, Colonel, 273.

Twain, Mark. See Clemens, Samuel L.

Upham, J. Baxter, 221 and n.

Vaughan, Henry, 74, 81, 95.

Viardot-Garcia, Michelle F. P., 225.

Victoria, Queen, 187, 188.

Vieuxtemps, Henri, 225.

Ward, Artemus. See Browne, Charles F.

Ward, Mary A. (Mrs. Humphry), 288.

Ward, Samuel, 90.

Warren, William, 203, 205, 206.

Washington, George, 259.

Wasson, David A., 114.

Waterston, Mrs., 24.

Watts, Isaac, 101.

Webster, John W., 153.

Whipple, Edwin P., 20.

White, Andrew D., 92.

Whitman, Sarah, 288.

Whitney, Anne, 101, 102, 206.

Whittier, Elizabeth, 259.

Whittier, John G., 39, 40, 68, 70, 114, 129, 130, 131, 161, 222, 244, 288.

Willard, Eliza J. See Fields, Eliza J. (Willard).

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