James E. Murdoch and William Warren

James E. Murdoch and William Warren

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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aurels he haswon nor to brag of his own work. Saturday morning^ November 13, 1875. — After awestern journey, left for home. Sunday met James E.Murdoch in the cars at Springfield. It was about sixoclock A.M., but he was bound for Newton. He camein therefore with us, and talked delightfully until weparted. He is an old man but as full of nerve, vigor, andripened intellect as anyone whom I have seen. His talkof the stage, of his disgust for Macreadys book, his dis-gust at the manner in which Forrest treated his wife, hisaccount of his own experiences, when he was glad toplay for $35 a week, were deeply interesting. The betterside of Forrest he understood and appreciated thor-oughly. The hospitalities of Charles Street were by no meansconfined to the men of the theatrical and kindredprofessions. In later years Miss Ellen Terry, LadyGregory, and those other ladies associated with thestage who so surely found their way to Mrs. Fieldssdoor when they visited Boston, were but carrying on the

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STAGE FOLK AND OTHERS 219 traditions of the earlier decades. As the visitors cameand went, the diary in the sixties and seventies re-corded their exits and their entrances. A few passagesare typical of many. A portion of the notes relating to Charlotte Cushmanwill be the better understood for a preliminary remarkupon a Boston event of huge local moment in the au-tumn of 1863. This was the dedication of the GreatOrgan, that wonder of the age, in Music Hall. The firstpublic performance on the organ, at the ceremonies onthe evening of November 2, were preceded by Char-lotte Cushmans reading of a dedicatory ode, contrib-uted, according to the Advertiser of the next day, byan anonymous lady of this city. The secret of Mrs.Fieldss authorship of this poem, which the Adver-tiser found somewhat too long in spite of its merits,must have been shared by some of her friends, though itwas temporarily kept from the public. Sundayy September 20, 1863. — In the evening Char-lotte Cushman and her nie

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