Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships / Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields

by M. A. De Wolfe Howe; Annie Fields

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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