ILLUSTRATIONS
| Mrs. Fields | [Frontispiece] |
| From an early photograph | |
| A Note of Acceptance | [9] |
| Autograph of Julia Ward Howe | |
| The Offending Dedication | [15] |
| From First Edition of Hawthorne’s “Our Old Home” | |
| An Early Photograph of Dr. Holmes | [18] |
| Reduced Facsimile of Dr. Holmes’s 1863 Address to the Alumni of Harvard | [23] |
| From the Play-bill of the Night of Dr. Holmes’s “great round fat tear” | [24] |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) | |
| Facsimile of the Conclusion of Ultimus Smith’s Declaration | [26] |
| Mrs. Fields | [32] |
| From a crayon portrait made by Rowse in 1863 | |
| Fields, the Man of Books and Friendships | [34] |
| Louis Agassiz | [48] |
| Hawthorne in 1857 | [54] |
| From a Letter of Hawthorne’s after a Visit to Charles Street | [61] |
| Emerson | [86] |
| From the Marble Statue by Daniel Chester French in the Concord Public Library | |
| A Corner of the Charles Street Library | [98] |
| From a Note of Emerson’s to Mrs. Fields | [100] |
| Facsimile of Autograph Inscription on a Photograph of Rowse’s Crayon Portrait of Lowell given to Fields | [106] |
| James Russell Lowell | [106] |
| From the Crayon Portrait by Rowse in the Harvard College Library | |
| Facsimile of Lowell’s “Bulldog and Terrier” Sonnet | [121] |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [124] |
| From a Photograph taken in middle life | |
| From a Note of “Dear Whittier” to Mrs. Fields | [130] |
| Proposed Dedication of Whittier’s “Among the Hills” to Mrs. Fields | [132] |
| Charles Dickens | [136] |
| From a portrait by Francis Alexander, for many years in the Fields house, and now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts | |
| “The Two Charles’s,” Dickens and Fechter | [140] |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) | |
| Reduced Facsimile of Dickens’s Directions, Preserved among the Fields Papers, for the Brewing of Pleasant Beverages | [147] |
| Facsimile Play-bill of “The Frozen Deep,” with Dickens as Actor-Manager | [188] |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) | |
| Facsimile Note from Dickens to Fields | [192] |
| James T. Fields at Fifteen | [196] |
| From a drawing by a French Painter | |
| Facsimile Note from Booth to Mrs. Fields | [201] |
| Booth as Hamlet | [202] |
| Jefferson in the Betrothal Scene of “Rip Van Winkle” | [208] |
| A Nast Cartoon of Dickens and Fechter | [210] |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) | |
| James E. Murdock and William Warren | [218] |
| Charlotte Cushman: from a Crayon Portrait | [220] |
| (Shaw Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library) | |
| Ristori and Fanny Kemble | [222] |
| The photograph of Fanny Kemble was taken in Philadelphia in 1863 | |
| Christine Nilsson as Ophelia | [226] |
| Facsimile Letter from William Morris Hunt to Fields | [231] |
| Facsimile Page from an Early Letter of Bret Harte’s | [235] |
| Bret Harte and Mark Twain | [242] |
| From early photographs | |
| Facsimile Verses and Letter from Mark Twain to Fields | [248-9] |
| Charles Sumner | [258] |
| From a Letter of Edward Lear’s to Fields | [279] |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | [282] |
| The Library in Charles Street | [284] |
| Mrs. Fields at the Window, Miss Jewett at the right | |
| An Autograph Copy of Mrs. Fields’s “Flammantis Mœnia Mundi” before its Final Revision | [287] |
| Mrs. Fields on her Manchester Piazza | [288] |
| Mistral, Master of “Boufflo Beel” | [294] |
| Reduced Facsimile from Letter of Henry James | [299] |
(Most of the photographs reproduced are in the collections of the Boston Athenæum and the Harvard College Library, to which grateful acknowledgments are made.)