Little Pilgrimages

The Romance of
Old New England
Rooftrees

By

Mary C. Crawford

Illustrated

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
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Copyright, 1902
byL. C. Page & Company
(Incorporated)

All rights reserved

Published, September, 1902
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

SIR HARRY FRANKLAND (See page 48)

FOREWORD

These little sketches have been written to supply what seemed to theauthor a real need,—a volume which should give clearly, compactly, andwith a fair degree of readableness, the stories connected with thesurviving old houses of New England. That delightful writer, Mr. SamuelAdams Drake, has in his many works on the historic mansions of colonialtimes, provided all necessary data for the serious student, and to himthe deep indebtedness of this work is fully and frankly acknowledged.Yet there was no volume which gave entire the tales of chief interest tothe majority of readers. It is, therefore, to such searchers after theromantic in New England's history that the present book is offered.

It but remains to mention with gratitude the many kind friends far andnear who have helped in the preparation of the material, and especiallyto thank Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers of the works ofHawthorne, Whittier, Longfellow, and Higginson, by permission of andspecial arrangement with whom the selections of the authors named, areused; the Macmillan Co., for permission to use the extracts from LindsaySwift's "Brook Farm"; G. P. Putnam's Sons for their kindness in allowingquotations from their work, "Historic Towns of New England"; Small,Maynard & Co., for the use of the anecdote credited to their BeaconBiography of Samuel F. B. Morse; Little, Brown & Co., for their markedcourtesy in the extension of quotation privileges, and Mr. Samuel T.Pickard, Whittier's literary executor, for the new Whittier materialhere given.

M. C. C.
Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1902.

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