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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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ll, when will you get home? Oh, saidhe, I dont know. I put myself into Mr. Fieldsshands. Well, Mr. Fields, how early can you get himhome? About twelve, was the answer. Nowthat s pretty well, said the Doctor. Amelia, go inand shut the door. Mr. FieLds will take care of me.So between fun and anxiety they chatted away untilthey were fairly into the street and in the car. I vebeen doing too much lately between my lectures and mystory, and the fine dinners I have been to, and I oughtnot to go out tonight. Why, it s one of the greatestcompliments one man ever paid another, my going outto Longfellows tonight. By the way, Mr. Fields, do youappreciate the position you hold in our time ? Therenever was anything like it. Why, I was nothing but aroaring kangaroo when you took me in hand, and Ithought it was the right thing to stand up on my hindlegs, but you combed me down and put me in propershape. Now I want you to promise me one thing. We reall growing old, I m near sixty myself; by and by the
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FIELDS, THE MAN OF BOOKS AND FRIENDSHIPS DR. HOLMES, FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR 35 brain will begin to soften. Now you must tell me whenthe egg begins to look addled. People dont know ofthemselves. He had been to two large dinners lately, one at G. W.Waless, which he said was the finest dinner he had everseen, the most perfect in all its appointments, decoratedwith the largest profusion of flowers, in as perfect tasteas he had ever seen. Why, even the chair you sat inwas so delicately padded as to give pleasure to thatweak spot in the back which we all inherit from the fallof Adam. The other was at Mrs. Charles Dorrs, wherethere were sixteen at table and the room for heat waslike the black hole at Calcutta, but the company wasvery brilliant. Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop, Mrs. Parkman, Dr. Hayes, etc. He sat next Mrs. ; says she is a thorough-bred woman of society, the daughter of apolitician, the wife, first of a millionaire and now of aman of society. I like such a woman now and then; she never ma

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