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id: 3390
title: My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  occasion, and said he would like to wear all the time. dinner-time, and Clemens would read them aloud to us in wild triumph. could very easily write like Clemens, and we took the play scene and Clemens came on with me to Boston, where we were going to make some men he ever knew." I was still Clemens''s guest at Hartford when Arnold To make an end of these records as to Clemens''s beliefs, so far as I knew Clemens found that he had sat down upon it, and handed it to him; the man New York, but he said he much preferred coming to Boston; of late years Norton presided, and when it came Clemens''s turn to read he known how Walter Scott had behaved till they knew it was like Clemens. Clemens would have liked it himself, for he had the heart for A little after this Clemens went abroad with his family, and lived


id: 3391
title: A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  that is not Harte''s fault, for he kept on writing those stories, in one but he wrote them from the life of Bret Harte, on the soil and in the air Cambridge and the Boston neighborhood, while Harte was still in San could say the sort of things that Harte said to him of that delicious This, Harte told him, was the line he liked best of all his lines, and on easily together, Lowell having limitations in directions where Harte Harte was the life of a time which was literary friends of a like age and stature, Harte laid his arms well time ventured to suggest, "Well, Harte, this is the old literary Whatever minds there may be about Harte''s fiction finally, there can Harte was no longer the alarming portent of the earlier time, but host and guest sat together for those parting moments, when Harte


id: 3398
title: My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives sense of the literary importance of the men whose like we shall not look satisfied until I thought, long too late, of Literary Friends and LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE--My First Visit to New England LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE--My First Visit to New England and criticisms for the Saturday Press of New York, a long-forgotten but world, and I should not like to think he knew how far short of my time I saw an old New England town, I do not know, but the most first and last thing he saw when he came and went on his long voyages, or asked me what way I had taken in coming to New England, and when I told New England had ceased to print my letters, he said, "Think of a man like


id: 3392
title: Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Cambridge Neighbors Of course it was only so hard worked a man who could take thought and meeting in Cambridge, he went to live in New York, a city where money part in honest politics, and to live for his day in things that most men life than of literature, and we seldom spoke of those old times. fifth of our life in Cambridge, that I made the acquaintance of a man, I do not know whether Mrs. Agassiz has put into her interesting life of him, a delightful story character than a man who lived at the same time in Cambridge, and who If he had said it was better to live in Cambridge with a cold than Holmes was one of the first Cambridge men I knew. in New York long before he came to live in Cambridge. for others the life that I have so long lived for myself.


id: 3393
title: Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Studies of Lowell I knew the place--a matter of twenty-five years; but in all that time I he liked to speak of Cambridge in the custom of his younger days when here--what little boy?" At another time he pointed out a certain window These walks continued, I suppose, until Lowell went abroad for a winter suppose it was the "common man" of Lincoln''s dream that Lowell thought abroad for a twelvemonth, Lowell was seen in very few Cambridge houses, In this he was like the other great Cambridge men, But he had already come to the age of self-distrust when a man likes to I do not believe at any time Lowell was able to deal with money to my lodging, and the story of our old-time Cambridge walks began again Lowell talked very little, but he told of having been a


id: 3394
title: The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--The White Mr. Longfellow "Is it possible?" cried the old friend; and then Longfellow intervened to out every day to dine with Longfellow in Cambridge, beginning with his took Longfellow''s fancy when he first came to be professor in Harvard, The study where the Dante Club met, and where I mostly saw Longfellow, to some effort of the kind by my remembrance of Longfellow''s old friend Greene was like an old Italian house-priest in manner, gentle, heard him speak, in all those evenings, except when Longfellow addressed not know Longfellow before that fatal time, and I shall not say that his to "Mr. Greatest Poet Longfellow," which he said was the very most and came to the Boston Museum with it, Longfellow could not apparently some of them; and I will ask you to send me a box," said Longfellow, and


id: 3396
title: Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  destinies of the great literary periodical of New England. for it was almost wholly the work of New England men and women in the New England life, shall have anything so like a national literature. New England mind for two hundred years, and that still characterizes it. which is free from the ethicism of the great New England group, but which great day was the blossom of a New England root; and the language which publishing house which so long embodied New England literature was New England Girlhood." She was the author of many poems, whose number England stock, and a Boston author by right of race, but she came up to fancy of the young readers of that day, needed the cold New England gentle, like all those great New England men, but he was cold, like many especially the work of a new man, and if I did anything that he liked, I


id: 3395
title: Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  visited New England, but when I came to live near Boston, and to begin The thing came up in talk with another person, who had referred to my The doctor took him upon his word, however, and said he had been so long intellectually the most alive man I ever knew." "I am, I am," said the time in his literary life when he was a fact rather than a question, and thought of asking Doctor Holmes to do something again in the manner of He said something like, After all a good physician was the great matter; person who wished to talk when he could listen to Doctor Holmes was his character of universally interested man, he spoke freely; but he has said did not know you when he knew you quite well, and at such times I think said I sometimes wondered what could be the mind of a man towards life


id: 3397
title: Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
author: Howells, William Dean
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  LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Roundabout to Boston During the four years of my life in Venice the literary intention was the two visits he paid Venice in my time, had sent it to him, after smiling time for any literary endeavorer at home in the life-and-death that literary Boston which mainly represented American literature to me. The official chief of the consul at Venice was the United States Minister arrival Mr. Motley came to me with a handful of newspapers which, Before I left Venice, however, there came a turn in my literary luck, and later, when I saw him in New York, that he consented to publish my book. a man with the heart to feel the wrongs of men so little friended then as worthy to live in Boston." It was New-Year''s eve, and that night it came New York; and then I went to Boston to see Mr. Fields concerning details.


id: 47060
title: Years of My Youth
author: Howells, William Dean
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  At Columbus is what was the new State House in Mr. Howells''s youth, the late in my father''s life, he mentioned casually, as old people will William''s house in the years after the Civil War, my father and he began talking of old times, and he told how, when a boy on a keel-boat, tied at the house of some old friends of my father where we had supper after I have told the story of this venture in a little book called _My Year In the summer evenings, after her long hard day''s work was done, my young days when he did so much of his newspaper work at home he would every day of the week and far into every night to help my father earn poetry; and over what was left of her day''s work for the long evenings time remains with me except what now seems to have been my day-long


