89; publishes The Story of a Bad
Boy, 91, 92; writes Marjorie Daw,
93; moves to Charles Street, 94; an
international humorist, 94; corre-
spondence with Mark Twain, 94-99,
112-115; toasted hilariously by Arte-
mus Ward, 98, 99; considers becom-
ing an instructor at Harvard, 100;
leases Elmwood, 102, 103; Prudence
Palfrey, 103-107; returns to Charles
Street, 109; removes to Ponkapog,
110, 111; first European tour, 117-
119; its literary fruits, 119, 120; The
Queen of Sheba, 122, 124, 133-135;
publishes Flower and Thorn, 126,
132, his opinion of critics, 131; trans-
lates The Story of a Cat, 135; elegy
on Bayard Taylor, 136; second Euro-
pean tour, 137; finishes The Still-
water Tragedy, 137; opinion of Walt
Whitman, 138, 140; appointed editor
of the Atlantic Monthly, 140; his
editorial office at 4 Park Street, 142-
145; editorial work, 146–151; editorial
letters, 148, 149; buys 59 Mt. Ver-
non Street, 151; honorary degrees
conferred on him, 151, 152, 194; his
critical judgment, 153; on the value
of contemporary criticism, 156; his
reputation as a wit, 157-160; retires
from the Atlantic, 160; builds "The
Crags," at Tenant's Harbor, 161,
175; travels around the world, 161;
influence of the Orient on, 163; self-
criticism, 165, 210, 245, 246; writes
Unguarded Gates, 168; substitutes
for Curtis in the "Easy Chair," 171
note; guest of honor at Aldine Club
dinner, 172; revises Mercedes, 173;
dissatisfied with his own photographs,
177, 196; political attitude, 178, 204,
205; in Japan, 180-183; in China,
184, 185; Hong-Kong to Cairo, 186-
188; collects Later Lyrics, 193; sug-
gests poems to Stedman for the
American Anthology, 197; some liter-
ary opinions, 200-203, 206, 207; on
the sonnet, 212, 213; on American
poets, 214, 215; at Saranac Lake,
217-222; publishes A Sea Turn and
Other Matters, 222; and Ponkapog
Papers, 223; The White Feather,
223-225; discusses the quatrain, 226;
death of his son Charles, 227; drama-
tizes Judith and Holofernes, 228;
his seventieth birthday, 232-234;
writes poem for Longfellow cente-
nary, 235, 238; writes his last letter,
236; illness and death, 237; his last
words, 237 ; funeral, 238; burial, 239;
his prose style, 240; his habits of re-
vision, 241, 242, 248-251; as a writer
of short stories, 242, 243; his poetry,
244-259; his early masters, 244, 245;
his poetic evolution, 245, 246; his
poetic style, 247-249; effective verbal
changes, 250, 251; his longer narra-
tive poems least characteristic, 253;
personal and memorial poems, 254;
his most enduring poems, 255-258.
Some anecdotes of, 40, 49, 62, 87,
98, 137, 142, 150, 151, 158-160.
Letters (and extracts): to his mo-
ther, 56; to Miss Woodman, 68-70; to
his sons, 118, 180, 182, 184, 186; to
Francis Bartlett, 179, 197, 207, 212;
to E. L. Burlingame, 227; to J. T.
Fields, 29, 33, 52, 119; to W. O.
Fuller, 223; to R. E. Lee Gibson,
210; to R. W. Gilder, 195, 202, 204,
232; to T. W. Higginson, 156; to W.
D. Howells, 89, 94, 102, 116, 120, 121,
122, 124, 129, 191, 193, 211, 218; to
Laurence Hutton, 176; to J. R.
Lowell, 90, 104, 108; to H. W. Ma-
bie, 28, 172, 199, 208, 212; to Brander
Matthews, 226; to Weir Mitchell,
201; to E. S. Morse, 177; to Nance
O'Neil, 229, 239; to F. D. Sherman,
164, 165, 170, 195; to E. C. Sted-
man, 17, 19, 88, 101, 119, 127, 134,
138, 140, 141, 146, 152, 154, 171, 196,
213, 234; to R. H. Stoddard, 50, 55;
to Bayard Taylor, 32, 70, 73, 81, 82,
103, 107, 125, 126, 129; to Mark
Twain, 96, 99, 112, 114; to William
Winter, 29, 174; to G. E. Woodberry,
163, 166, 167, 173, 175, 177, 189, 190,
194, 205, 206, 236; for a Portsmouth
reunion, 16.
Aldrich Memorial Museum, 9 note.
American critics, 83, 130, 131.
American newspapers, 173.
American poets, some opinions of Al-
drich on: H. H. Brownell, 156; Mrs. |
Fields, 139; Halleck, 215; Holmes,
153, 154; Lanier, 214, 215; Longfel-
low, 29, 30; Lowell, 90, 91; Frank
Dempster Sherman, 164; R. H. Stod-
dard, 128; Whitman, 138, 140.
Americanism, Aldrich's, 168.
Arnold, George, early friend of Aldrich,
38, 39.
Arnold, Matthew, dinner to, 158.
Atlantic Monthly, The, Lowell's note
accepting Aldrich's first poem in, 48;
bought by H. O. Houghton & Co.,
107; edited by Howells, 140, 146; by
Aldrich, 141, 143-146; Scudder be-
comes editor, 160.
Babie Bell, The Ballad of, occasion of,
26; popularity of, 27, 28; and Other
Poems, published, 46; sales, 52; con-
tents, 263.
Baby Bell, illustrated edition, 274.
Bad Boy, The Story of a, quoted, 8, 9,
13, 14; autobiographic, 12; begun,
89; issued serially in Our Young
Folks, 91; and as a book, 92, 270,
277, 278; its permanence, 243, 244-
Bailey, John, ancestor of T. B. A., 5,6.
Bailey, Thomas Darling, "Grandfather
Nutter," 7.
"Bailey, Tom," 1-17.
Bartlett, Francis, letters from Aldrich
to: about a newspaper interview, 179;
"a fall in C. B. & Q.," 197; about his
poem Elmwood, 207, 208; about
Shaw's Folly, 212.
Bartol, Cyrus A., 86, 87.
Bédollière, Emile de la, Mother Michel
and her Cat, 135.
Bells, The, Aldrich's first volume of
verse, 24; none of it included in late
collections, 25, 245; contents, 261.
Benedict, E. C., entertains Aldrich on
his yacht, 157.
Book of Songs and Sonnets, A, a final
selection, 246, 285.
Booth, Edwin, 3, 38; Aldrich's friend-
ship with, 72, 73, 157, 159, 167; "a
great actor," 83; burial of, 174.
Brewster, Charles Warren, his Rambles
about Portsmouth, early verses by
Aldrich in, 15.
Brownell, Henry Howard, naval lau-
reate, 56; battle bard, 156.
Browning, Robert, Aldrich meets in
London, 137, 206.
Bryant, William Cullen, 38.
Bugbee, James M., a lifelong friend of
Aldrich, 79.
Buntline, Ned, as Aldrich remembered
him, 192.
Burlingame, E. L., 227.
Carlyle, Thomas, his Frederick the
Great, 173; a story in Carlylese, 197-
Child, Alpha, letter to Aldrich quoted,
21, 41; Aldrich's reply, 22.
Child, Francis J., proposes to Aldrich
to become an instructor at Harvard,
Clapp, Henry, Jr., "King of Bohemia,"
38, 39, 44, 54; starts the Saturday
Press, 42.
"Clare, Ada " (Mrs. Jane McElhinney),
"Queen of Bohemia," 2, 38; her
Clemens, Samuel L., see Twain, Mark.
Cloth of Gold, 11; and Other Poems,
46; contents, 271.
Course of True Love never did Run | Francis, Miss S. M., 4; describes rou-
Smooth, The, published, 36; sales, 52;
almost entirely omitted from later col-
lections, 245; contents, 263.
Cozzens, Frederick S., author of the
Sparrowgrass Papers, 38.
"Crags, The," Aldrich's summer place
at Tenant's Harbor, 161, 175, 177,
190.
Crescent and the Cross, The, 249, 250.
Curtis, George William, 38; the "Easy
Chair," 171.
Daisy's Necklace, and what came of it,
34, 35, 263.
De Merritt, Samuel, Aldrich's teacher, 14.
Derby, J. C., publishes Aldrich's first
volume of verse, 24.
Derby & Jackson, Aldrich becomes
literary adviser to, 31; publish Daisy's
Necklace, 34.
tine of the Atlantic office, 143-145.
Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book, 253,
278; printed in the Atlantic, 71; Al-
drich's estimate of, 210; published,
with other poems, 275.
Frost, A. B., illustrates the Bad Boy,
178.
Frost, Charles, Aldrich's uncle, 10;
takes Aldrich into his counting-room,
16, 20.
Frost, Mrs. Charles, 10, 19.
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 127,
128.
Fuller, W. O., criticises The White
Feather, 223-225.
Garfield, President James A., assassi-
nation of, 152.
"Gawd," thought a more poetical word
than "God," 203, 207.
Dickens, Charles, at Aldrich's house, 87. Gibson, R. E. Lee, letter from Aldrich
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, unconscious-
ness of, 176; Aldrich's admiration of
his Bacchus, 197.
Evening Mirror, Aldrich junior liter-
ary critic of, 28-31.
Every Saturday, established, 76; edited
by Aldrich, 79, 80, 84; changed to an
illustrated weekly, 100; sold to H. O.
Houghton & Co., 106, 107.
Faithful, Major, 182, 185.
"Fern, Fanny," sister of N. P. Willis,
2, 30; marries James Parton, 31.
Fields, Annie, 79; letter of Aldrich to,
83; her Under the Olive, 139.
Fields, James T., 3, 117; intimacy with
Aldrich, 79, 87; retires from busi-
ness, 100; letters from Aldrich to:
about Hiawatha, 29; about publish-
ing a volume of poems, 33, 52; about
European experiences, 119.
Flower and Thorn, 126, 130; pub- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, letter to Al-
drich about his poems, 66, 200; The
Scarlet Letter, one of the two chief | Illustrated News, The, Aldrich's con-
pieces of American fiction, 201.
Hawthorne, Sophia, writes Aldrich
about Père Antoine's Date-Palm, 84,
85.
In Youth beside the Lonely Sea, an
autobiographic poem, 41, 42.
Hearn, Lafcadio, as a letter writer, 3.
Heine, Heinrich, quoted, 47.
Herford, Oliver, quoted, 226.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, letter
from Aldrich to, about H. H. Brown-
ell, 156.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 123; popu- Jubilee Days, 191, 271.
larity of, 132.
James, Henry, not a natural story-teller,
134; his prose style, 240.
James, William, 79.
Jefferson, Joe, 172.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 3; letter to
Aldrich about first collected edition
of his poetry, 64, 65; letter about
Blue and Gold edition, 75, 76; Al-
drich's estimate of Holmes's work,
154; anecdote of, 158, 159; Aldrich's
appreciation of his kindness, 200.
Home Journal (New York), Aldrich's
connection with, 30-33, 42.
Houghton, Lord, anecdote of, 159.
House, Edward H., war correspondent
of the Tribune, 56, 57.
Howard Athenæum, the, 203.
Howells, William Dean, 3; impressions
Journal of Commerce, Babie Bell first
printed in, 26.
Judith, printed in the Round Table,
69-71.
Judith and Holofernes, Miss O'Neil
asks Aldrich to dramatize, 228; pub-
lished, 278.
Judith of Bethulia, 228; played in Bos-
ton and New York, 229, 230; its mer-
its, 231.
Keats, John, "did n't know any better
than to write pure English," 207.
Keeler, Ralph, art editor of Every
Saturday, 100; mysterious death,
Kipling, Rudyard, 224; "a certain Ara-
bian writer," 169.
of the Saturday Press, 43-45; re-
views The Ballad of Babie Bell, 47,
48; first meeting with Aldrich, 79, 80;
Aldrich's impressions of, 81; editor
of the Atlantic, 140, 146; letters
from Aldrich to: about the birth of
A.'s twin boys, 89; about his Charles
Street house, 94; about A Midnight
Fantasy, 116; about the Legend of
Ara-Cali, 120, 121; about The Queen
of Sheba, and other matters, 122-125;
lamenting that his poetical wind-mill
is dismantled, 129; about J. R. Os-"Little Miss," 86, 87.
good and other old friends, 191; about
letter writing, 193; about H.'s re-
moval to New York, 211; a 66 crazy-
quilt" letter, 218-222.
Hutton, Laurence, 157; birthplace of,
10; letter from Aldrich to, 176.
Lander, Gen. F. W., Aldrich appointed
to staff of, 54; elegy on, 54, 55.
Landor, Walter Savage, a master of
quatrains, 226.
Lanier, Sidney, ranked by Aldrich as a
minor poet, 214, 215.
Later Lyrics, 193, 277.
Lathrop, George Parsons, 125, 147.
Legend of Ara-Cali, The, 120, 123,
124, 253.
Little Violinist, The, 274.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 3; in-
fluence on Aldrich, 25; Aldrich's ad-
miration of, 29; praises Aldrich, 37,53;
conceives The Hanging of the Crane
in Aldrich's dining-room, 87, 88; his
opinion of the Bad Boy, 93; cente-
nary of his birth, 235.
Lowell, James Russell, perennially
youthful, I; a cultivated letter writer,
3; accepts poem by Aldrich for the
Atlantic, 48, 49; suggests that Al-
drich become an instructor at Har-
vard, 100; leases Elmwood to Al-
drich, 103; his Commemoration Ode,
132; his Letters, 176; letters from
Aldrich to about Under the Wil-
lows, 90, 91; about Elmwood, 104,
108.
his Woodman, spare that Tree, 38;
once considered a poet, 128.
Morse, Edward S., Aldrich writes to,
about photographs of himself, 177.
Mot-de-curbstone, 224.
Nameless Pain praised by Mr. How-
ells, 47, 48.
Nason, Rev. Elias, 127.
Nest of Sonnets, entire edition de-
stroyed by Aldrich, 34.
Newcastle, N. H., 17.
Newspapers, American, 173.
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, author of the New York, literary life of, in the fifties,
Hasheesh Eater, 38, 39.
Lynn Terrace, one of the finest of Al- Nordhoff, Charles, editor of Harper's
drich's poems, 251.
Mabie, Hamilton W., "a head-light,"
170, 171; letters from Aldrich to:
about Baby Bell, 28; about speaking
at dinners, 172; about his criticism
of A.'s work, 199; about contempo-
rary poetry, 208, 209; about the son-
net, 212, 213.
McCann, John E., reads Baby Bell in a
Western barroom, 27, 28.
McElhinney, Mrs. Jane, see Clare, Ada.
Man and the Hour, The, quoted, 53, 54.
Marjorie Daw, 93, 271, 276.
Matthews, Brander, letter from Al-
drich to, about the quatrain, 226.
Memory, 256, 257; Whittier's enjoy-
ment of, 258.
Mercedes, successfully produced on the
stage, 162; revised, 173, 277.
Mercedes, and Later Lyrics, 275.
Metempsychosis, The, 49.
Midnight Fantasy, A, 116, 274.
Miss Mehetabel's Son, 273.
Mitchell, S. Weir, letter from Aldrich
to, about Hugh Wynne, 201.
Moore, Frank, Songs of the Soldiers,
quoted, 59, 60.
Morris, George P., 2, 18; one of the
owners of the Evening Mirror, 28;
North, Ernest Dressel, his bibliography
of Aldrich, 261.
Nutter House, The, 8, 11, 13.
O'Brien, Fitz James, 38; literary work,
39, 40; challenges Aldrich to fight a
duel, 40; associate of Aldrich on the
Saturday Press, 42, on Gen. Lan-
der's staff, 54.
Occasional poems, not likely to wear
well, 197, 200.
Old Town by the Sea, An, 173, 277.
Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W., Aldrich collab-
orates with, in The Second Son, 276.
O'Neil, Nance, in Judith of Bethulia,
228-231.
Osgood, James R., writes Aldrich about
editing Every Saturday, 76; changes
Every Saturday to an illustrated
weekly, 100; business misfortunes,
106, 107, 191.
Our Young Folks, prints The Story of
a Bad Boy, 91, 92; sold to Scribner
& Co., 107.
Out of his Head, and Other Stories,
60, 266.
Paint and Clay Club, edition of Al.
drich's Poems illustrated by, 275.
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