GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO EVERY READER
(KATE SANBORN)
MEMORIES AND
ANECDOTES
BY
KATE SANBORN
AUTHOR OF"ADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARM," "ABANDONING AN
ADOPTED FARM," "OLD-TIME WALL PAPERS," ETC.
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1915
To
ALL MY FRIENDS EVERYWHERE
ESPECIALLY TO MY BELOVED
"NEW HAMPSHIRE DAUGHTERS" IN MASSACHUSETTS,
MY PUPILS IN SMITH COLLEGE,
ALSO AT PACKER INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN,
AND ALL THOSE WHO HAD THE PATIENCE TO LISTEN TO MY LECTURES,
WITH GRATEFUL REGARDS TO THOSE DARTMOUTH GRADUATES
WHO, LIKING MY FATHER, WERE ALWAYS GIVING HIS
AMBITIOUS DAUGHTER A HELPING HAND
CONTENTS
My Early Days—Odd Characters in our Village—Distinguished Visitors to Dartmouth—Two Story-Tellers of Hanover—A "Beacon Light" and a Master of Synonyms—A Day with Bryant in his Country Home—A Wedding Trip to the White Mountains in 1826 in "A One-Hoss Shay"—A GreatCareer which Began in a Country Store
A Friend at Andover, Mass.—Hezekiah Butterworth—A Few of my OwnFolks—Professor Putnam of Dartmouth—One Year at Packer Institute,Brooklyn—Beecher's Face in Prayer—The Poet Saxe as I Sawhim—Offered the Use of a Rare Library—Miss Edna Dean Proctor—NewStories of Greeley—Experiences at St. Louis
Happy Days with Mrs. Botta—My Busy Life in New York—PresidentBarnard of Columbia College—A Surprise from Bierstadt—ProfessorDoremus, a Universal Genius—Charles H. Webb, a truly funny "FunnyMan"—Mrs. Esther Herman, a Modest Giver
Three Years at Smith College—Appreciation of Its Founder—A Successful Lecture Tour—My Trip to Alaska
Frances E. Willard—Walt Whitman—Lady Henry Somerset—Mrs. Hannah Whitehall Smith—A Teetotaler for Ten Minutes—Olive Thorn Miller—Hearty Praise for Mrs. Lippincott (Grace Greenwood.)
In and near Boston—Edward Everett Hale—Thomas Wentworth Higginson—Julia Ward Howe—Mary A. Livermore—A Day at the Concord School—Harriet G. Hosmer—"Dora Distria," our Illustrious Visitor
Elected to be the First President of New Hampshire's Daughters in Massachusetts. Now Honorary President—Kind Words which I Highly Value—Three, but not "of a Kind"—A Strictly Family Affair—Two Favorite Poems—Bre