From a drawing by his daughter, Mrs. Henry Lloyd Smyth HENRY HOBSON RICHARDSON WILLIAM ENDIcott, Jr. WALBRIDGE ABNER FIELD. HENRY LEE HIGGINSON EDWARD WILLIAM HOOPER WILLIAM STURGIS BIGELOW JOHN FISKE SAMUEL HOAR CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT From a crayon drawing by John S. Sargent JOSEPH BANGs Warner CHARLES RUSSELL CODMAN JAMES MASON CRAFTS WILLIAM GILSON FARLOW. ROGER WOLCOTT WILLIAM THOMAS SAMPSON FRANCIS CABOT LOWELL SAMUEL WALKER MCCALL From a portrait by Edmund C. Tarbell JAMES FORD RHODES From a crayon drawing by John S. Sargent 244 318 326 • 330 • 338 346 Of the portraits reproduced in this volume it should be said that many have been provided by the families of the persons commemorated; others have been found in the collections of the Boston Athenæum. Some of the photogravure plates have been used in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, some in books published by Houghton Mifflin Company. For all the coöperation resulting in their present assemblage the Editor would make grateful acknowledgment. • 378 · 386 394 400 408 W INTRODUCTION HEN "The Early Years of the Saturday Club' was published in 1918, it was the intention of Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, its maker, to follow it with at least one more volume, continuing the history of the Club. To that end he had begun to assemble material — indeed he had already written several memoirs for inclusion in it - when the state of his health obliged him to lay the task aside. The notes he made indicate that he intended to pursue the plan on which "The Early Years' was constructed namely, to write a series of papers on the successive years through which the Club has lived, and after every such paper to present brief memoirs of the members, no longer living, who were elected in each of the years thus reviewed. In 1870, the last year with which Dr. Emerson's published volume concerned itself, two members were elected - Charles Francis Adams, Sr., and Charles William Eliot. As President Eliot was still living, happily in full vigor, in 1918, the volume was brought to a close with a memoir of Charles Francis Adams. No other member of the Club was so well equipped as Dr. Emerson, through his background of associations and memories, to deal with the beginnings of the Club and with that Olympian group of his father's friends who constituted its membership. Nor was any present member of the Club so well qualified, even had he been willing, to undertake the labor of producing, so nearly singlehanded as Dr. Emerson in the production of the first volume, a second constructed upon any such general plan. The difficulty of relating the life of the Club to each year of the half-century ending in 1920 might have been overcome as it has been in the following pages - simply by ignoring it altogether. The difficulty of finding any individual possessed of the requisite knowledge and command of his time to deal at all adequately with any considerable number of the more than fifty former members of the Saturday Club awaiting commemoration in accordance with the programme framed by Dr. Emerson was a difficulty not so easy to sur mount. If a second volume was to be produced at all, it became clear that some alternative plan must be devised. The plan adopted was for the present editor to assume a general supervision of the undertaking, to secure some editorial assistance - which Mr. A. Emerson Benson has most helpfully provided and to distribute the writing of the several memoirs (increased in number from fifty-two to fifty-six by deaths that have occurred while the work was in progress) among members of the Club, chosen with obvious or obscurer reference to the special adaptation, in each instance, of author to subject. This course has been pursued, with the result that after more than a year of immediate preparation the book is ready for the printer. The memoirs are arranged, as in the earlier volume, in the order in which the persons commemorated were elected to the Club - the years of election being indicated by separate dated pages. To his fellow members of the Saturday Club the editor would render warm acknowledgments for coöperation, as follows: to Mr. Moorfield Storey, president of the Club since the resignation of President Eliot, for five memoirs; to Bishop Lawrence and Mr. G. R. Agassiz for three memoirs each; to Dr. W. T. Councilman, the Rev. Dr. S. McC. Crothers, Judge Robert Grant, Professor L. J. Henderson, President Lowell, Professor Bliss Perry, and Professor T. W. Richards for two each; to Professor A. C. Coolidge, Mr. C. A. Coolidge, Dr. Harvey Cushing, Mr. E. W. Forbes, the Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, the Rev. Dr. G. A. Gordon, Professor C. H. Grandgent, Mr. Joseph Lee, Professor G. F. Moore, President H. S. Pritchett, and the late Professor C. S. Sargent, for one each. The material assembled before the present editor took up the book has yielded six memoirs by Dr. Emerson himself, and one each by the late J. F. Rhodes and W. R. Thayer, members of the Club. All of these papers, and four by the editor, are signed in the following pages with the names of their authors. Of the unsigned papers, the chief authorship of one, prepared at Dr. Emerson's request by Mr. R. H. Dana, is acknowledged in the text; the seven others prepared by Mr. A. Emerson Benson, in some instances by acknowledged condensation of existing memoirs, have received certain additions and emendations by members of the Club. Twenty |