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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot (1822-1907)
August 28, 1901. 101Alden, Henry Mills (1836-1919)
Saturday morning [1891]. 48Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)
Preface
[1889-90], "Elmwood," "A Bad Boy"; 33
23 July, 1890, retirement from Atlantic; 40
[1890], "Shaw's Folly," "Two Boys in Black"; 45
Hotel Brunswick [1890-91], poem in memory of Mr. Lowell, My Cousin the Colonel. 49Arabian Nights
15 April 1900. 98Arnold, Edwin, Sir, (1832-1904)
Friday evening, South Berwick [1885]. 12Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
Thursday night, 1884, Mr. Arnold's "Nineteenth Century" paper; 10
Sunday afternoon, December, 1888, essay on George Sand; 20
Wednesday evening [1889-90], "Essays on Celtic Poetry"; 29
Thursday morning [1890]; 42
Sunday evening [1890]; 44
20 August 1892; 54
Monday morning [1897]; 70
11 Sept. [1898]; 90
13th of December [1908]. 144Austen, Jane (1775-1818)
Saturday morning [1903-04], Persuasion. 106Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850)
June, 1885, "The Alchemist"; 13
October 20, [1908]. 142Barnes, William (1801-1886)
Sunday evening [1890]. 44Barrington, Daines (1727-1800)
Thursday morning [1890]. 44Beaumont, Mary (probably working in 1890s; more information welcomed)
20 August, 1892. 54Bell, Mrs. Helen Olcott Choate (1830-1918)
Monday morning [1886-88]; 16Blackmore, R. D. (1825-1900)
1883; Lorna Doone, 6ABlaine, James G. (1830-1893)
Thursday night, 1884; 10Blake, William (1757-1827)
June 25, 1905. 117Blanc, Mme. Thérèse (Th. Bentzon) (1840-1907)
Wednesday morning [1888-1890]; 37
23 July, 1890; 40
Monday evening [1890], picture; 43
6 June, 1898; 84
June 6, [1898]; 85
10th of June [1898]; 86
December 28, [1907]; 132
January 23, 1909. 145Boer War - South African War - (1899-1902)
January 20, 1900. 95Booth, Edwin (1833-1893)
[1891]. 49Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Tuesday morning [1890], The Life of Johnson. 41Bourget, Paul (1852-1935)
September 8, 1895. 66Bossuet, Jacques Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
6 June, 1898. 84Brewster, Charles Warren (1802-1868)
Tuesday morning [1890], Rambles about Portsmouth; 41Brontë family (c. 1816-1855)
30 July, 1898. 89Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)
12 February 1893; 60
3 September [1897]. 72Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
29 August 1894. 61Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838-1922)
October 20 [1908]. 142Buell, Augustus C. (1847-1904)
Monday [1905-06]. 122Burlingame, Edward Livermore (1848-1922)
Sunday evening, 1889; 23Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Friday night, 1889; 24Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley (1833-1898)
Tuesday evening [1886-88], Burne-Jones' photographs; 17Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
Thursday night, 4 December, 1889; 27
Wednesday Afternoon [1897]; 75Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
1883; 6A
Saturday [1889-90]; 28
Saturday morning, 12 October, 1890; 46
Monday morning [1897]; 70Cather, Willa (1873-1947)
August 17, 1908; 137
27th November, 1908; 143
13th of December, 1908. 144Chapman, George (c. 1559-1634).
August 5, [1906]. 127Charlemagne (c. 742-814)
6 June, 1898; 84
10th of June [1898]. 86Choate, Rufus (1799-1859)
Thursday morning [1888-90], biography; 38Clark, Mrs. Godfrey
October 20, [1908]. 142Cleveland, James G.
Wednesday Afternoon [1897], also Mrs. Cleveland; 75Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Sunday evening [1890], letters; 44
October, 1908. 141Collyer, Robert (1823-1912)
Saturday Night [about 1899]. 94Coolidge, Katherine
15 April [1900]. 98Copyright (Berne Convention, 1886)
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]. 30Curtis, George W. (1824-1892)
10th November, 1892. 59Cushing, Elizabeth (died c. 1887)
Monday morning [1886-88]; 16Dana, Richard H. (1815-1882)
Thursday morning [1890], Two Years Before the Mast. 42
Tuesday [June, 1901]. 99Daniel, Samuel ( (c.1562-1619)
Monday morning [1886-88], poems; 16Darmesteter, Mary
Friday Night [1897], Renan. 76Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897)
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]; 30Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
Monday morning [1906]. 123Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Sunday evening [1883-84], Letters; 9
Thursday night, 4 December 1889; 27Donne, John (1572-1631)
Saturday afternoon [1889-90], poems; 34Drake, Sir Francis (1541-1596)
19 April, 1898; 81Dumas, Alexander (1802-1870)
29 August, 1894, The Three Guardsmen. 61Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834-1896)
20 August, 1892; 54
9 November, 1896; 69
11 Sept. [1898]. 90Duval, Amaury (1808-1885)
Monday evening [1890]. 43Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)
Tuesday morning [1906]. 124Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Monday morning [1906]. 123Emerson, Ellen Tucker (1839-1909)
August 5, 1906. 127Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Wednesday evening [1889-90]; 36
27th November, 1908. 143Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty (1841-1885)
Thursday morning [1889-90], Benjy in Beastland. 38Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883)
3d July [1898]; 88
Tuesday [June, 1901]; 99
Thursday, November 20 [1903]; 111
Monday [1905-06]; 122
Intervale, Sunday [1908] 135Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880)
Saturday Morning, 12 October, 1890, Madame Bovary; 46
Saturday Night [about 1899]. 94Francis, Susan Moore (1839-1919)
November 12, 1907. 131Freeman, Mary Wilkins (1852-1930)
Monday 11th, 1896. 68Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894)
Saturday morning, 12 October, 1890. 46Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)
Saturday morning, 12 October, 1890. 46Gladstone, William E. (1809-1898)
Thursday night, 1884; 10
Monday morning, [1897]; 70
10th of June [1898]. 86Goldsmith, Oliver (c. 1730-1774)
1883; 6A
Sunday evening [1890], "The Deserted Village"; 44
Monday [1905-06]; 122Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)
Monday [1905-06]; 122Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885)
Thursday afternoon, 21 July, 1885, death; 14Greenslet, Ferris (1875-1959)
Wednesday 7th August [1905]. 119Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920)
Saturday Morning, 12 October, 1890; 46
Monday [1905-06]; 122
Hastings, Warren (1732-1818)
Friday night, 1889; 24Hawker, Robert S. (1803-1875)
Sunday evening [1883-84]; 9Hawthorne, Julian (1846-1934)
Wednesday Afternoon [1897]. 75Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Tuesday morning [1890], American Journals. 41Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856)
Wednesday night [1886-88]; 18Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
10th November, 1892; 59Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]; 30
Saturday afternoon [1889-90]; 34
October 12, 1904; 113
November 12, 1907. 131Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896)
Thursday morning [1889-90], Tom Brown. 38Huxley, Mrs.
20 August, 1892. 54Ireland
Thursday night, 1884; 10
June 30, 1902. 104Irving, Edward (1792-1834)
Monday evening [1897]. 70James, Henry (1843-1916)
Wednesday [1903-04]; 109
January 23, 1909. 145James, William (1842-1910
Saturday afternoon, 1892, Varieties of Religious Experience. 52Jefferies, Richard (1848-1887)
Tuesday morning [1890], The Story of My Heart. 41Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909)
Works
Preface, Deephaven;
Preface, Country of the Pointed Firs;
Sunday, 24 June [1883-4] "The Gray Man"; 8
Sunday evening [1883-4], A Marsh Island; 9
June 1885, The Country of the Pointed Firs; 13
Thursday evening, 1886, The Story of the Normans; 15
Sunday afternoon, December, 1888, "The Gray Man," "Lady Ferry," "Beyond the Toll-gate"; 20
Sunday evening [1888-89], "Law Lane"; 23
Later [1889], "A Player Queen," an unknown story; 23A
Thursday night, 4 December, 1889, "An Only Son," "The Dulham Ladies," "A Gray Man"; 27
Monday [1889-90], "The Quest of Mr. Teaby"; 31
Saturday afternoon [1889-90], "A White Heron," "Marsh Rosemary"; 34
Saturday Morning, 12 October, 1890, "The Failure of David Berry"; 46
10th November, 1892, "Between Mass and Vespers" (note); 59
12 February, 1893, "The Flight of Betsey Lane," "Between Mass and Vespers," "All My Sad Captains," "A Day in June," "A Second Spring," and "A Lonely Worker"; 60
Thursday Morning [1894-95], "Martha's Lady"; 64
15 April, 1895, Deephaven; 65
14 June [1898], "An Every-day Girl"; 87
January 20, 1900, "The Queen's Twin"; 95
August 28, 1901, The Tory Lover; 101
Spring [1904], The Country of the Pointed Firs, 108A
October 12, 1904, A Country Doctor, "The Landless Farmer, Deephaven, "The Only Rose"; 113
Monday [1905-06], The Tory Lover; 122
November 12, 1907, "Lady Ferry," Old Friends and New; 131
December 28, [1907], The Country of the Pointed Firs; 132On Death
Thursday afternoon, 23 July, 1885; 14
Wednesday evening [1889-90]; 36
Wednesday 7th August [1905]; 119
To Mrs. Fields [1905-06]. 120On Friendship
August 5, 1897; 72
3 September [1897]; 73
3d July [1898]; 88
December 14, 1904 (1); 115
Wednesday, 7th August [1905]; 119
7th May, 1907; 129
October, 1908. 141The Power of Enjoyment
7th May, 1907. 129On Writing
Sunday afternoon, December, 1888; 20
Saturday morning, 1889; 25
Sunday, 5th July [1889]; 26
Thursday night, 4 December, 1889; 27
23 July, 1890; 40
Undated to T. B. Aldrich, realism, sentiment, sentimentality; 45
Saturday Morning, 12 October, 1890; 46
November [1891]; 51
Thursday morning [1894-5]; 64
Monday 11th, 1896; 68
Saturday night [about 1899], and also on reading novels; 94
October 12, 1904; 113
December 14, 1904 (1); 115
To Mrs. Fields [1905-06], Miss Olive Grant in her stories; 120
Monday [1905-06]; 122
7th May, 1907; 129
23d August, 1907; 130
Monday, 1908; 134
27th November, 1908, to Willa Cather; 143
13th December, 1908, to Willa Cather. 144Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Thursday morning [1888-90]; 38
Tuesday morning [1890], in The Life of Johnson; 41
Monday [1905-06]; 122Kemble, Fanny (Frances Anne, 1809-1893)
Tuesday [1894-95]; 63
To David Douglas [1903-4]; 107
August 5, [1906]. 127King, Caroline (1822-1909)
August 5, [1906]. 127Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875) Need to be sure this is the right person; check footnote.
June 8, 1908. 136Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Preface ;
Tuesday morning [1890]; 41
August 28, 1901. 101Lafayette, Marquis de (1757-1834)
Monday morning [1886-88]; 16Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
29 August 1894; 61
October, 1908. 141Lee, Henry (1817-1898)
Tuesday [1894-5]. 63Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget) (1856-1935)
November 12, 1907; 131
Uthersyde [1908]; 133
January 23, 1909. 145Lockhart, John Gibson (1794-1854)
To David Douglas [1903-04], a probable reference. 107Lodge, Mary (Mrs. James, 1829-1889)
Sunday evening [1883-84]; 9
Monday morning [1886-88]; 16
Wednesday [1903-04]. 109Longfellow, Alice Mary (1850-1928)
August 28, 1901. 101Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
Saturday Morning, 1882; 4Longfellow, Samuel
10th November, 1892. 59Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
Preface;
Thursday night, 1884; 10
Wednesday night, August 12, 1891, death; 47
9 November, 1896; 69
Wednesday Afternoon [1897]; 75
11 Sept. [1898]; 90
7th August [1905]; 119
March 26, 1906; 125
August 5, [1906]; 127
October 1, 1908. 140MacDonald, George (1824-1905)
Tuesday morning, [1890], Phantastes. 41Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1840-1914)
Tuesday Morning [1905-06] 124Maupassant, Guy de (1850-1893)
Monday 11th, 1896. 68McCracken, Elizabeth (1876-1964)
December 28, [1907]. 132Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson (1847-1922)
20th March, 1902; 102
Saturday morning [1903-04]; 106
Thursday [1903-04]; 108
December 14, 1904; 115
23d August, 1907. 130Millet, Jean François (1814-1875)
9 July, 1892; 53
September 8, 1895. 66Milton, John (1608-1674)
Monday evening [1890], "Lycidas." 43Mistral, Frédéric (1830-1914)
20 May [1898]. 83Mitchell, Silas Weir (1829-1914)
Thursday evening, 1886; Hugh Wynne, 15
15 April 1900. 98Modjeska, Madame
[1898]. 91Murfree, Mary N. (Charles Egbert Craddock)
Saturday Morning, 12 October, 1890; 46Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908)
9 November, 1896; 69
November 12, 1907; 131
September 1, 1908; 138
September 16, 1908. 139North, Christopher
Thursday night, 4 December, 1889, The Genius and Character of Burns. 27Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret Wilson (1828-1897)
Monday [1889-90], Royal Edinburgh; 31
Monday morning [1897]; 70
Friday night [1897], The Life of Edward Irving: 76Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée, 1839-1908)
Saturday night [1899], Wanda; 94
Thursday noon [1905-06]. 121Parsons, Thomas William (1819-1892)
Sunday evening [1883-4]; 9
10th November, 1892, (probably his death). 59Peabody, Dr. Andrew Preston (1811-1893)
Saturday morning [1890-91]. 48Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703)
Wednesday morning [1888-90]; 37Perry, Bliss (1860-1954)
To David Douglas (1903-04]; 107
October 12, 1904. 113Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart (Ward, 1844-1911)
Tuesday morning [1890]. 41Plato (about 428-347 BC)
Preface;
December 28, [1907]. 132Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79)
Thursday evening, 1886, Natural History. 15Pliny, the Younger (62-113)
Thursday evening, 1886. 15Preston, Harriet Waters (1836-1911)
Thursday evening, 1886, about Pliny; 15
Later [1889], about the Russian novels; 23APutnam, George Haven (1844-1930)
Sunday evening, Autumn. [1891]. 30Ramsay, Dean
10th November, 1892. 59Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761)
Monday evening, 1883, Clarissa Harlowe; 7Riggs, Mrs. George (Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923)
June 30, 1902. 104Rousseau, Jean J. (1712-1778)
Monday morning [1886-88], Confessions. 16Rubinstein, Anton (1829-1894)
14 June [1898]. 87Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count (1753-1814)
Saturday afternoon, 17 January 1891; 46A
Saturday morning [1903-04]. 106Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
Thursday morning [1890]; 42
10th of June [1898]; 86
20th March, 1902. 102Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907)
Tuesday [1894]. The Shaw Memorial, 63Sand, George (Amandine-Aurore Lucille Dupin, Baronne Dudevant, 1804-1876)
Sunday afternoon, December, 1888; 20
Thursday night, 4 December, 1889; 27
23 July, 1890, Correspondence; 40
Thursday morning [1890], letter to Madame d'Agoult; 42
3 September [1897]. 72Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Thursday noon [1905-06], Ivanhoe; 121
Monday [1905-06]; 122Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, (1789-1867)
August 5, [1906]; 127
September 1, 1908. 138Sévigné, Madame de (1626-1696)
3 September [1897]; 72
16 May, 1898; 82
6 June, 1898; 84
3d July [1898]; 88Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Saturday Morning, 12 October, 1890, Hamlet; 46
[1898], Macbeth; 91
August 5, [1906]. 127Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Friday night, 1889; 24Skene, Felicia
10th November, 1892; 59Spanish-American War (1898)
10th of June [1898]; 86
January 20, 1900. 95Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599).
Epigraph to collectionSpofford, Harriet Prescott (1835-1921
December 31, 1902. 105Stanley, Dean possibly Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-1881); check notes
3 September [1897]. 72Stuart, Lady Louisa
October 20, [1908]. 142Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)
Preface, The Pearl of Orr's Island;
Friday night [1888-89]; 21
Sunday, 5th July, [1889] The Pearl of Orr's Island. 26Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772)
Sunday evening [1883-4]. 9Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
PrefaceTelephone (1876)
Wednesday 7th August [1905]; 119
October, 1908 141Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)
Thursday afternoon, 23 July, 1885; 14
Thursday evening, 1886; 15
Saturday morning, 12 October, 1890; 46
20 August, 1892; 54
October, 1892; 57
10th November, 1892, death; 59
3 September [1897]; 72
Friday night, late [1897]; 77Teresa, Saint (1515-1582)
December 14, 1904 (1). 115Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)
[1894-95]. 62Thackeray, Anne Isabella (Lady Ritchie, 1837-1919)
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]; 30
Thursday morning [1889-90], Miss Angel. 38
Monday 11th, 1896; 68
Thursday, November 20 [1903]. 111Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
Thursday evening, 1886, Pendennis, Vanity Fair; 15
Sunday evening, 1889, Pendennis, the Scribner letters; 23
Later [1889], Pendennis; 24
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90], Vanity Fair. 30Thaxter, Celia (Sandpiper) (1835-1894)
Sunday evening [1883-84]; 9
Tuesday evening [1886-88]; 17
Friday night, 1889; 24
29 August 1894, death. 61Theocritus (c. 308 - c. 240 BC).
Pride's Crossing [1906]. 126Thierry, Augustin, 1795-1856
Monday evening, 1883; 7Thompson, Charles Miner (1864-1941)
October 12, 1904. 113Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910)
Thursday evening, 1886, Anna Karenina; 15
Sunday afternoon, December, 1888; 20
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]; 30
Tuesday morning [1890]; 41
Thursday noon [1905-06]. 121Turgenev, Ivan (1818-1883)
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]; 30
October 12, 1904. 113Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]. 30Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695)
Wednesday 7th August [1905]. 119Verne, Jules (1828-1905)
Thursday evening, 1886. 15Victoria, Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901)
10th of June [1898]; 86
Monday afternoon, 1905; 118
To Mrs. Fields, [1905]. 120Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 BC)
Tuesday morning [1906]. 124Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)
May [1888-90], letters; 39Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)
Monday [1905-06]; 122Ward, Dorothy (daughter of Mary Augusta, b. 1872)
January 20, 1900; 95
December 14, 1904 (2); 116
June 8, 1908. 136Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphrey Ward) (1851-1920)
20 August, 1892, Lady Rose's Daughter; 54
9 November, 1896, Sir George Tressady; 69
January 20, 1900, Sir George Tressady, Marcella, Eleanor; 95
September 1, 1908, Diana; 138
October 1, 1908, Diana. 140Warner, Charles Dudley (1829-1900)
January 23, 1909. 145Warner, Susan (1819-1885)
December 31, 1902 Mrs. Rutherford's Children. 105Warrender, Margaret (?)
September 6, 1908 Lady John Scott; 139
October 20, 1908. 142Warton, Thomas (1728-1790)
Tuesday [1894-5]. 63Watson, William (1858-1935)
Saturday morning [1890-91], A Prince's Quest; 46Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684-1721)
Pride's Crossing [1906]. 126White, Gilbert (1720-1793)
Thursday morning [1890]; 42
29 August 1894. 61Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
10th November, 1892, death; 59
Wednesday Afternoon [1897]. 75Whitman, Sarah W. (1842-1904)
Saturday afternoon [1889-90]; 34
Friday afternoon [June, 1901]; 100
Wednesday [1903-04]; 109
December 14, 1904 (2); 116
June 25, 1905; 117
Monday afternoon, 1905. 118Wister, Own (1860-1938)
15 April [1900]; 98
To David Douglas [1903-04]; 107
Thursday noon [1905-06]. 121Wolcott, Mrs.
Wednesday [1903-04]. 109Woodberry, George E. (1855-1930)
1 November, 1891, essay on Lowell; 50
Wednesday 7th August [1905]. 119Woodbury, Marcia Oakes (1865-1913).
15 April, 1895. 65 (note)Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge) (1835-1905)
15 April [1900]. 98Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855)
Friday night, 1889, Tour in Scotland; 24
Sunday evening [1890], letters. 44Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Wednesday morning [1888-90], "The Leech-Gatherer"; 37
Sunday evening [1890], letters; 44
30 July, 1898, "White Doe of Rylstone." 89Wormeley, Katharine (1830-1908)
Intervale, Sunday [1908]; 135
October 20, [1908]. 142Zola, Émile (1840-1902)
Monday evening, 1883; 7
Sunday evening, Autumn [1889-90]. 30
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