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"In the Gray Cabins of New England." Century Illustrated Magazine, vol. 49, Feb. 1895, pp. 620-23.

"In the Gray Cabins of New England" AN Englishman who recently visited this country wrote from Boston to a friend: As I have so little time in America, I have decided to spend it all in New England. It is the American race that I wish to study, nor…

Tags: Brahminism, Cotton Mather, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Othello (Shakespeare), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Theosophy, wasted lives

John Andross, New York, Orange Judd, 1874Serialized: Hearth and Home, Dec. 1873-May 1874, pp. [add].

JOHN ANDROSS CHAPTER I. THE Niagara Express, just before sunset at the close of a sultry July day, was puffing slowly into Lock Haven, a small lumber-town which is the key of access to the wild mountainous district of Pennsylvania, from the rich…

Tags: Antietam, Aristides, capitalism, Cato the Younger, Charles Maurice Tallyrand-Perigord, Cincinnatus, Diogenes, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edmund Spenser, Edwin Booth, Faust (Goethe), Felicia Hemans, Gulliver's Travels (Swift), Henri de Saint-Simon, Henry Clay, James Fisk, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Bunyan, John Dryden, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Work Garrett, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Jefferson, Jr., King Arthur's Round Table, Lady Godiva, Marmion (Scott), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Othello (Shakespeare), Paris Commune, Phillips Brooks, Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan), Queen Isabella, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Records of Woman (Hemans), Rene Descartes, Sir Walter Scott, Tammany Hall, The Diverting Ballad of John Gilpin (Cowper), The Faerie Queen (Spenser), The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe), Verdi, Whiskey Ring, William Cowper, William Shakespeare, William Tweed

1862-08-28
Annie Adams Fileds

To ANNIE ADAMS FIELDS August 28, [1862], Wheeling My dear Annie Your letter did me so much good the other day. These are sad lonesome days for us here. The war is surging up close about us. O Annie if I could put into your and every true woman’s…

1861-11-26, James T. Fields

To JAMES T. FIELDS November 26, 1861, Wheeling Mr. Fields May I shake hands with you in our Virginia fashion? You have made the day a very happy one for me. I cannot tell you what old childish fancies surged up at the sight of Longfellow and…

Tags: “A Story of To-Day”, Annie Adams Fields, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margret Howth, Nathaniel Hawthorne

1863-01-26, Annie Adams Fields

To: ANNIE ADAMS FIELDS January 26, [1863], Wheeling[1] I know you will forgive me, dear Annie for not writing sooner. I’ve abandoned mail—to be fitted and inspected and looked at by women with mouths full of pins[2] and me eye shut, and I’m tired of…

Tags: Archibald Campbell, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, John Mershel, Kate Field, L. Clarke Davis, marriage, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Goldsmith, Rachel Leet Wilson Harding, The Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith)

1864-04-12, Annie Adams Fields

To ANNIE ADAMS FIELDS [April 12, 1864], Philadelphia My dear dear Annie Clarke has just sent me up your note and I must answer it myself, though maybe he may from the office. I wanted to write before only to say I loved you— God knows how dear and…

Tags: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, health (RHD), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ode (AAFields), Rachel Leet Wilson Harding, Richard W. Harding, William Ticknor

1864-07-27, Annie Adams Fields

To ANNIE ADAMS FIELDS June 27 [1864], Philadelphia Not a day has passed since your letter came in which you have not been thought if not spoken of here but I have not written, waiting from day to day to know when we were going so as to tell you how…

Tags: health (RHD), Kate Field, motherhood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rachel Leet Wilson Harding, Richard Harding Davis, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne

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