Identifier: memoriesofhostes02howe (find matches)
Title: Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960 Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
Subjects: Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Women -- Massachusetts Boston Diaries Friendship -- Massachusetts Boston Authors, American -- 19th century Biography Actors -- United States Biography Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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verses, whereupon one ofGrays was given as an example. The talk turned some-what upon the manner of putting things, the Englishmanner being so poor and inexpressive compared withthe southern natures — the French being the masters ofexpression. Longfellow gave a delightful account of the old artistand spiritualist, Kirkup, the discoverer of the Danteportrait, though Greene undertook to say that a certainWilde was the man. I never heard anybody else havethe credit but Kirkup, and certainly England believesit was he. I think they all had a good time; I am sure I did. As Mark Twain, in the preceding pages may be said tohave led the reader back into the Boston and Cambridgecircle, so there were constant excursions of interestfrom that circle out into the world in which such a manas Sumner stood as the friend of such another as Long-fellow. For twenty-three years, from 1851 till his deathin 1874, Sumner was a member of the United StatesSenate, and consequently was much more to be seen in
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CHARLES SLMNER STAGE FOLK AND OTHERS 259 Washington than in the state he represented. He ap-pears from time to time in the pages of Mrs. Fieldssdiary, and in the two ensuing passages figures first ather Boston dinner-table and then in Washington-. Saturday^ November 18, 1865. — Last night Miss KateField and Charles Sumner dined with us. Before wewent to dinner Charlotte Foster, the young colored girlwhom Elizabeth Whittier was so fond of and who is nowsecretary of the Freedmens Bureau, came in to call.She is very pretty and good. It is difficult neverthelessfor her to find a boarding-place. People do not readilyadmit a colored woman into their families. I shall helpher to find a good home. . . . Mr. Sumner opened the conversation at dinner byasking Miss Field to tell him something of Mr. Landor.She, smiling, said that was difficult now because shehad talked and written so much of him that she hardlyknew what was left unsaid. Mr. Sumner described hisown first introduction then at the

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