Category: Biographies
My Early Days--Odd Characters in our Village--Distinguished Visitors to Dartmouth--Two Story-Tellers of Hanover--A "Beacon Light" and a Master of Synonyms--A Day with Bryant in his Country Home--A Wedding Trip to the White Mountains in 1826 in "A One-Hoss Shay"--A Great Career...
Elected to be the First President of New Hampshire Daughters in Massachusetts and New Hampshire--Now Honorary President--Kind Words which I Highly Value--Three, but not "of a Ki...
8. Chapter 8My Early Days--Odd Characters in our Village--Distinguished Visitors to Dartmouth--Two Story Tellers of Hanover--A "Beacon Light" and a Master of Synonyms--A Day with Bryant in...
9. Chapter 9A Friend at Andover, Mass.--Hezekiah Butterworth--A Few of my Own Folks--Professor Putnam of Dartmouth--One Year at Packer Institute, Brooklyn--Beecher's Face in Prayer--The Poe...
11. Chapter 11Few women known to me have had greater grace or ease in the entertainment of strangers, while in her more private intercourse, her frank, intelligent, courteous ways won her the...
12. Chapter 12I was in danger of being spoiled by kindness in New York and the surrounding towns, if not in danger of a breakdown from constant activity, literary and social, with club intere...
13. Chapter 13Visiting in Germantown, Pennsylvania, at the hospitable home of Mrs. Hannah Whitehall Smith, the Quaker Bible reader and lay evangelist, and writer of cheerful counsel, I found...
14. Chapter 14Edward Everett Hale was kind to me, as he was to all who came within his radius. He once called to warn me to avoid, like poison, a rascally imposter who was calling on many of...
10. Chapter 10Happy Days with Mrs. Botta--My Busy Life in New York--President Barnard of Columbia College--A Surprise from Bierstadt--Professor Doremus, a Universal Genius--Charles H. Webb, a...
7. Chapter 7Elected to be the First President of New Hampshire's Daughters in Massachusetts. Now Honorary President--Kind Words which I Highly Value--Three, but not "of a Kind"--A Strictly...
1. Chapter 1My Early Days--Odd Characters in our Village--Distinguished Visitors to Dartmouth--Two Story-Tellers of Hanover--A "Beacon Light" and a Master of Synonyms--A Day with Bryant in...
2. Chapter 2A Friend at Andover, Mass.--Hezekiah Butterworth--A Few of my Own Folks--Professor Putnam of Dartmouth--One Year at Packer Institute, Brooklyn--Beecher's Face in Prayer--The Poe...
3. Chapter 3Happy Days with Mrs. Botta--My Busy Life in New York--President Barnard of Columbia College--A Surprise from Bierstadt--Professor Doremus, a Universal Genius--Charles H. Webb, a...
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