Memories and Anecdotes

AUTHOR OF ADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARM, ABANDONING AN ADOPTED FARM, OLD-TIME WALL PAPERS, ETC.
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
ESPECIALLY TO MY BELOVED
NEW HAMPSHIRE DAUGHTERS IN MASSACHUSETTS,
MY PUPILS IN SMITH COLLEGE,
ALSO AT PACKER INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN,
AND ALL THOSE WHO HAD THE PATIENCE TO LISTEN TO MY LECTURES,
WITH GRATEFUL REGARDS TO THOSE DARTMOUTH GRADUATES WHO, LIKING MY FATHER, WERE ALWAYS GIVING HIS AMBITIOUS DAUGHTER A HELPING HAND
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 which Began in a Country Store
A 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 Poet Saxe as I Saw him—Offered the Use of a Rare Library—Miss Edna Dean Proctor—New Stories of Greeley—Experiences at St. Louis
Happy 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 truly funny Funny Man —Mrs. Esther Herman, a Modest Giver
Three Years at Smith College—Appreciation of Its Founder—A Successful Lecture Tour—My Trip to Alaska