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Indissolubly associated with the history of the old Museum is the name of William Warren. Born in Philadelphia in 1812, young Warren was educated for a commercial career, but
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when confronted at the age of twenty with the necessity for immediate self-support, he followed the line of least resistance and went upon the stage, as many of his family had done before him. His first appearance was at the Arch Street Theatre, October 27, 1832, as Young Norval, on the occasion of a benefit given to his lately widowed mother by his father's former friends and associates. Then for nine years he led the life of a strolling player, appearing with decided success in many cities.
In 1841 came his first appearance in New York, his part being that of Grizzle in "My Young Wife and an Old Umbrella." For the four following years he played, in Buffalo and other New York cities, the leading comedy parts in a company of which his brother-in-law, J. B. Rice, was the head; then, in 1845, he took a brief pleasure trip to England, there playing for a single benefit occasion at the Strand Theatre, London.
To the Howard, and not to the Museum, must, however, be credited the initial Boston success (October, 1846) of this most versatile of American comedians. His season at this house covered twenty weeks, during which he increasingly won the favor of Boston playgoers. On August 23 following he made his début at the Boston Museum, then in its fifth season. The connection continued, with the exception
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of one season, for a period of nearly two score years, years which Bostonians still cherish as supremely blessed. He died on September 21, 1888, and was buried from Trinity Church.
On the never-to-be-forgotten night of War- ren's "Golden Jubilee," October 28, 1882, he said : "To have lived in this city of Boston happily for more than five and thirty years, en- gaged in so good and successful a theatre as this, cheered always by your favor, and then to have that residence crowned by such an assemblage as I see before me, is glory enough for one poor player. My humble efforts have never gained me any of the great prizes of my profession until now; but, failing to reach the summit of Parnassus, it is some- thing to have found so snug a nook in the mountain-side."
Warren could easily have filled a larger sphere had he so desired, however, for, like so many who have attained eminence in his craft, he came of a gifted player race. His father, the elder William Warren, began at the age of seventeen to follow the life of a strolling actor, emigrated to America in 1796 and was in turn a highly successful player, a moderately successful mana- ger - and an unsuccessful innkeeper. It was while following this last-named trade that he died in Baltimore in 1832. He had been three times married. "Boston's William Warren"
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was the son of the third wife, Esther Fortune, a younger sister of Joseph Jefferson's grand- mother.
Thus Jefferson, with whom Warren's work is often compared, was his cousin. Like Jeffer- son in gentleness and quiet cultivation, Warren ; was also like him in the quality of his art. To compare the respective rank of the two men is no part of our present purpose, but it is interest- ing to see how this matter looked to the late Henry Austin Clapp, a critic of authority : "Mr. Jefferson can point, it seems to me, to but one work of supreme distinction, the sole and single product of his life, the masterpiece of our stage, - the figure of the immortal Rip. Our Warren, like another Rubens, could con- duct you through a vast gallery, crowded with noble canvases, of which at least a hundred glow with the beauty and the truth of life, every one bearing his firm signature."
Warren never married, and delightful anec- dotes are told of his long residence at the Bea- con Hill boarding-house presided over by Miss Amelia Fisher. Miss Fisher, the sister of Clara Fisher Maeder, was a sprightly little body who had herself once been an actress. The atmos- phere of her house was delightful to stage folk, but she took only a few players and they the cream of the profession. She never al- lowed any of her boarders, except Warren,
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to have a latchkey, preferring to sit up until after the theatre was over. John W. Ryan, to whom I am indebted for' many rich recol- lections of the Boston of Warren's day, tells me that it is Miss Fisher's boarding-house which, though disguised, is described in Russell Sullivan's charming story, "The Heart of Us." The house was quite as homelike and informal as Mr. Sullivan there shows it, he says, and, to illustrate, he tells of calling there on one occa- sion to "interview" Mrs. F. W. Lander (Jean Davenport) 1 then just about to appear as Hester Prynne. A picture of the lady in her new part was desired, but all that could be found was a photograph showing her as Cleopatra - which didn't exactly fit. "Miss Fisher, Miss Fisher," she called down the stairs to her landlady, "have you any picture of me?" "No, dear," came back the cheery voice. "I haven't and I'm sorry." So Mr. Ryan bore off the Cleopatra.
One delightful custom at Miss Fisher's board- ing-house was the late supper which was always spread informally in the old-fashioned kitchen after the evening performance. The boarders dropped in as suited their convenience and were
1 Jean Davenport, it is interesting to note, is often credited with having been Dickens' Infant Phenomenon, probably by reason of the fact that her father had taken her on a tour of the English pro- vincial theatres when she was a mere child. As early as 1838 she was playing at the National Theatre with such success that her father leased for her the Lion Theatre, on the site of the present Bijou. She was at this time stated to be "only eleven years of age."
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served by the landlady herself. Mr. Ryan when taken there on one occasion by James W. Collier, a connection of his, who was then playing Lan- dry Barbaud in Maggie Mitchell's "Fanchon," found cold game pie for supper. Miss Fisher herself let the young men in, as was her wont, and, if it had been necessary, would doubtless have greeted them with a "Good morning," putting the emphasis on the time of day. For she felt herself privileged to lead her guests gently in the way they should go. Once she reminded George Honey, the comedian, that his habits were a little convivial and pointed her remark with a significant "Look at Mr. War- ren !" For she enormously admired the charac- ter of her star boarder. Warren had a high re- gard for her, too, and sometimes, of a warm summer evening, the two old friends would be seen together, jolting along through the suburbs in an open horse-car. Warren, who always de- clared himself afraid to drive a horse, found this a capital way of getting out of town for a draught of country air.
Inextricably bound up with recollections of Warren at the Museum are the name and the fame of Mrs. Vincent. The two were friends, as well as fellow-players, and lovers of the thea- tre delight in memories of their work together, - even though Mrs. Vincent's Boston début was made at the "old Nash", where she and her
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husband had accepted an offer of William Pelby to play stock parts. Mrs. Vincent at this time was twenty-seven, and she played the first old maid, Miss Biffin, in Buckstone's comedietta, "Popping the Question," with the same spirit and skill that many of us today remember as distinguishing her old-woman parts of later years. From 1846 until the burning of the theatre, April 22, 1852, she acted steadily at this house with the exception of a short period of mourning after her husband's death in 1850. For a time after the destruction of the National the company was accommodated at the old Federal Street Theatre, as a play- bill, now in the Boston Public Library, on which Mrs. Vincent appears as Lady Sneerwell, establishes.
Agnes Robertson, who played at the Museum for a season, and who, though married to Dion Boucicault, was cast off by him when it suited his desires to declare her no longer his wife, was another great favorite with Boston theatre-goers. Miss Robertson had been a member of Mrs. Charles Kean's company in London when Boucicault presented his own first play, "The Vampire," at the Princess's The- atre in 1852, and when his first wife, a wealthy widow, died opportunely in Switzerland, Bou- cicault promptly married the girl who had cap- tivated his fancy. Soon afterwards the two
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sailed for America. Thinking that his young wife would prove a greater attraction if billed under her maiden name, Boucicault kept the marriage a secret for some time. Meanwhile Agnes Robertson was the sensation of the hour. Mrs. Vincent proved herself to be a real friend during this period of lionizing on the part of the public and shoulder-shrugging on the part of the Museum company. Not improbably she had something to do with Boucicault's tardy acknowledgment of this dainty maiden as his wife; at any rate he came on the stage of the Boston Museum one evening, said the few necessary words - and idle talk was set at rest.1 Boucicault's lack of consideration for his young wife seems to have been characteristic of the man. John Brougham, a fellow-Irish- man, once said of him, "If Dion had to play a second-old-man he would scalp his grandfather for the wig." This remark was made after Boucicault had tried to cheat Brougham out of his rights in "London Assurance !"
Trained in the farces and comedies of fifty years ago and accustomed to play her many parts mentally as well as physically, Mrs. Vin- cent, as an actress, had the same quietly humor-
1 Boucicault had not yet begun to write the Irish plays with which his fame is bound up. "The Colleen Bawn," his first success in this way, was not brought out until March 29, 1860, at Laura Keene's Theatre, New York ; it was then, too, that he made his decisive mark as an actor.
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ous methods which we associate with John Gibbs Gilbert and with Jefferson. Her fun, as Professor George P. Baker has pointed out, came from the brain, "and from her keen appre- ciation of the part and the situations. The round jolly figure, the cheery face, the tripping walk, the odd gasping little voice, were instinct with fun. The moment she appeared the au- dience smiled ; when she spoke, they shouted." Howells once wrote of her Mrs. Malaprop that it was a pity Sheridan could not have lived to see her in the part. Boucicault did live to see her as Conn's mother in "The Shaughraun," - was never happier, indeed, than when acting opposite her richly humorous interpretation of this part, with which most of my readers imme- diately connect her.
Almost until the day of her death this re- markable woman continued to delight her public, keeping on at her chosen work and acting her parts with no perceptible lessening of spirit and vigor until her seventieth birthday was so near that she could "smell" it - as Mrs. Julia Ward Howe once said of a similar festivity. We of today do her honor by helping to support the Boston hospital which bears her name and which derives a considerable portion of its regular income from dramatic performances of the Vincent Club, made up of Boston's young society girls who love the theatre.
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Adams, Charles Francis, 398. Adams, Hannah, 392. Adams, John, 1. Adams, Laban, 333. Adams, Mrs. John Quincy, 368.
Adams, Rev. Nehemiah, 133.
Adams, Phineas, 388. Adams, Samuel, 86. Agassiz, Louis, 403. Agassiz, Mrs. Louis, 370. Alcott, Bronson, 46, 66, 96. Alcott, Louisa M., 217. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 385, 386, 387. Alexander, Cosmo, 281, 282. Alexander, Francis, 362. Alexis, Grand Duke, 365. Allston, Washington, 179, 283, 284. American Coffee House, 422. American House, 351. Ames, Joseph, 285. Amory, Mrs. George E., 368. Amory, Rufus G., 13. Anderson, J. R., 241. Anderson, Mary, 417. Andrew, John Albion, 225, 231, 232, 235, 236, 237, 286, 335. Anglin, Margaret, 267. Appleton, Nathan, 22. Appleton, Samuel, 346. Appleton, Thomas Gold, 150, 315, 382. Appleton, William, 22. Arch Street Theatre, 424. Arnold, Matthew, 401. Astor Place Opera House, 412. "As You Like It," 408, 420. Atlantic Monthly, 383. Austin, James Tricothic, 136, 137.
Bacon, Delia, 375-381. Bacon, Dr. Leonard, 377. Baker, Professor George P., 431. Baldwin, Christopher Colum- bus, 408. .
Ball, Thomas, 313. Baltimore, 425. Bancroft, George, 387. Banks, Mrs. N. P., 367. Barnard, Rev. Charles, 316. Barnum, Phineas T., 289, 290, 291, 293. Barrell, Joseph, 12.
Barrett, George, 406.
Barrett, Lawrence, 417. Barry, Thomas, 242, 268, 415.
Barry, Mrs. Thomas, 415.
Bass, Seth, 396.
Bates, Joshua, 399.
Beecher, Dr. Edward, 187.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 176. Beecher, Rev. Lyman, 21, 97, 98, 99, 168, 199, 249, 250, 261. Benjamin, Park, 242. Bernard, John, 404, 406.
Bernhardt, Sarah, 416, 422. Bigelow, Mayor John P., 398.
Bijou Theatre, 411.
Billings, Hammatt, 101, 254, 286. Billings, J. E., 254.
Birney, James C., 109. Blagden, Rev. G. W., 398. "Blithedale Romance," 31, 34, 51, 55. Bolton, Charles Knowles, 396. Bond, George W., 135. Booth, Edwin, 261, 271, 272, 387, 415, 416. Booth, J. B., 239, 240, 406, 415. Booth, John Wilkes, 264, 265, 272, 408. Boott, Kirk, 350. Boston Advertiser, 341, 342. Boston Athenæum, 13, 154, 388- 397. Boston Authors' Club, viii, 402. Boston Common, 7, 10, 11, 19, 91, 92, 152, 251, 355, 371. Boston Custom House, 33, 387. Boston Latin School, 151.
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Boston Museum, 248, 251-267, 406, 418, 422-424, 429, 430.
Boston Music Hall, 197, 208, 215, 216, 217, 224, 278. Boston Public Library, 10, 123, 211, 397-400, 429.
Boston Theatre, 267-273, 314, 365, 413-417.
Boston Transcript, 140, 148, 206. Boston Traveller, 331.
Boucicault, Dion, 429-430, 431. Bowditch, Nathaniel Ingersoll, 3, 4, 294.
Bowditch, William I., 323. Bowery, 412.
Bowles, Samuel, 321.
Bowman, Brooks, 335.
Boyden, Dwight, 333, 347.
Boyden, Simeon, 333.
Bradford, George P., 29, 36. Bradford, Sarah H., 125.
Breck, Samuel, 17, 307, 326.
Brewer, Gardner, 413.
Brimmer, Martin, 286, 358.
Brisbane, Albert, 49.
Bromfield House, 333, 334, 335.
Brook Farm, 1-55.
Brooks, Peter C., 346.
Brooks, Phillips, 359, 360, 361.
Brooks, Preston S., 195, 196.
Brougham, John, 430.
Brown, Albert G., Jr., 237.
Brown, John, 192, 193, 194, 196, 197, 224, 236.
Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 47. Bruce, Georgiana, 37.
Bryant, Gridley, 342.
Buckingham, Joseph T., 86, 90, 343.
Buckminster, Rev. J. S., 390. Buffalo, 424.
Buitt, Martha Haines, 368, 369.
Bulfinch, Charles, 11, 13, 15.
Bull, Ole, 289, 295, 304, 305.
Bunker Hill Monument, 11, 186, 245, 250, 342, 349, 370. Burke, Master, 240, 246.
Burns, Anthony, 140, 142. Burr, Aaron, 154.
Bussey, Benjamin, 12. Butler, Senator, 195.
Butterfield, Rebecca Codman, 24, 36, 39, 41, 42.
Cabot, Samuel, Jr., 194. Cabot, Susan, 107. Cary, Annie Louise, 296.
Carlyle, Thomas, 25, 56, 177, 178, 377, 378.
Castle Garden, 412.
Chadwick, John White, 199, 201. Chapman, Henry G., 126. Chapman, Maria Weston, 107, 117, 121, 126, 127, 128, 131, 134, 176.
Channing, Ann, 284.
Channing, Dr. Walter, 398.
Channing, William Ellery, 91, 108, 109, 110, 130, 131, 135, 284.
Channing, William Henry, 51, 53, 79, 170.
Chapman, Mayor Jonathan, 398.
Chatham Garden Theatre, New York, 412.
Cheney, Arthur, 273.
Cheney, Ednah Dow, 70, 71, 91, 93, 124, 205.
Chickering, Jonas, 303.
Child, David Lee, 22, 105.
Child, Lydia Maria, 70, 107, 108, 112, 132, 193. Choate, Rufus, 179, 402.
Christian Examiner, The, 100, 101.
Church Green, 13, 99, 100, 356. Claflin, William, 278.
Clapp, Henry Austin, 257, 272, 273, 426.
Clapp, John Bouvé, 253.
Clapp, William W. Jr., 267.
Clarke, James Freeman, 57, 63, 67, 83, 84, 322.
Codman, Dr. John Thomas, 25, 35, 45, 51, 54.
Collier, James W., 428.
Collier, Rev. William, 385.
Colonnade Row, 10. Colver, Rev. Nathaniel, 249. Continental Theatre, 411.
Conway, H. J., 261. Conway, William Augustus, 406. Cooke, George Frederick, 405.
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Coolidge, Joseph, 342. Cooper, 406, 407. Copley, John Singleton, 281, 283. Corbett, Alexander, Jr., 269. Cotting, Uriah, 4. Craft, Ellen, 125, 214, 215. Crandall, Prudence, 110. Crocker, George Glover, 342. Crockett, Col. Selden, 333.
Crockett, S. Frank, 333.
Curtis, George William, 24, 38, 183, 196, 400. Curtis, Mrs. Greeley S., 368. Cushing, Caleb, 325.
Cushman, Charlotte, 243, 273- 279, 322, 401, 411, 417. Cutter, Charles Ammi, 396.
Dana, Charles A., 24, 36, 37, 42, 52. Dana, Richard Henry, 284.
Dana, Richard H., Jr., 146. Davenport, E. L., 248, 413, 415, 417. Davenport, Fanny, 413. Davenport, Hart, 340. Davenport, Jean, 246, 427. Davies, J., 261.
Davis, Edmund T., 389. Davis, Hon. John, 389. Dean, Julia, 416. De Staël, Madame, 165.
Dexter, Mrs. F. Gordon, 368. Dickens, Charles, 309, 349, 351, 362-365. Dickinson, Anna, 323. Dickson, James A., 404, 405. Ditson, Oliver, 297, 413. Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 227-231. Dodge, Mary Mapes, 323. Dolby, George, 363, 364. Dom Pedro, 350, 370, 371. Douglass, Frederick, 176. Drake, Samuel Adams, 13. Dwight, Edmund, 346. Dwight, John S., 36, 53, 297.
Eastern Stage House, 341. Eaton, Charles H., 243. Edward VII., 365-370. Eichberg, Julius, 297. Eliot, Pres. Charles William, 403.
Ellis, David, 12. Ellis, Rev. George E., 337. Ellsler, Fanny, 38, 244, 245. Eliot, Samuel, 346, 390, 398. Eliot, Mrs. Samuel, 18.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 26, 58, 63, 64, 66, 73, 82, 169, 177, 180, 201, 224-226, 244, 321- 323, 337, 351, 371, 377, 378, 382, 395.
Emerson, Rev. William, 389.
Endicott, William, Jr., 358.
English, William B., 410.
English, Mrs. William B., 410. Evans House, 313.
Everett, Edward, 257, 294, 346, 366, 398. Exchange Coffee House, 11, 332, 340, 352.
"Fanchon," 428. Faneuil Hall, 2, 22, 106, 112, 113, 135,139, 142, 144, 165, 185, 186. Farrar, Mrs. John, 69, 375.
Fechter, Charles, 272, 273, 417, 418.
Federal Street Theatre, 404-408, 429.
Field, Kate, 287, 321, 323.
Field, R. M., 264.
Fields, James T., 234, 364, 400, 401, 414. Fields, Mrs. James T., 191, 316, 362-364.
Fillmore, President, 311, 350.
Finn, Henry, 406.
Fisher, Amelia, 426.
Fisher, Clara, 408, 409.
Follen, Charles, 130.
Follen, Eliza Lee, 107.
Folsom, Charles, 396.
Foote, Rev. Henry W., 279.
Forbes, John Murray, 15, 16.
Forrest, Edwin, 238, 262, 349, 406, 417. Fourier, Charles, 49. Fortune, Esther, 426. Fox, Caroline, 253. Fries, Mrs. Wulf, 261, 409.
Frothingham, Rev. O. B., 44.
Fuller, Margaret, 54, 55-82, 110, 244.
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Gaiety Theatre, 411. "Galatea", 418. Gannett, Rev. Ezra S., 65, 129, 316, 398. Gardiner, John L., 346. Gardiner, Doctor, note 405.
Gardiner, R. H., 389. Garrison, Francis Jackson, x.
Garrison, Helen Benson, 117-123. Garrison, William Lloyd, 83, 85- 90, 94-104, 106, 108, 110, 111, 113-118, 122, 123, 127, 128.
"George Barnwell," 409. Geyer, Frederick, 13.
Gifford, Rev. O. P., 169.
Gilbert, John Gibbs, 239, 248, 250, 270, 415, 423, 431. Gilbert, Mrs. John Gibbs, 415. Gilchrist, Mrs. Anne, 371-375. Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield, 295- 297, 299.
"Gleaner" papers, 4. Globe Theatre, 273, 419-421. Goddard, Nathaniel, 12. "Golden Jubilee" of Warren, 425.
Goldschmidt, Otto, 293. Graham, Dr. Sylvester, 48.
Grant, U. S., 350. Gray, Horace, 342.
Gray, Hon. William, 226.
Gray, William, 12, 352. Greeley, Horace, 77.
Green, Dr. Samuel A., 174, 367.
Greenwood, Grace, 321.
Grimké, Angelina, 124, 125, 131, 133. Grimké, Sarah, 124. Guild, Samuel E., 8.
Hackett, James H., 247, 248, 411, 412, 417. Haggerty, Anna, 232. Hale, Edward Everett, 355. Hale, Nathan, 342.
Hall, Captain Basil, 343. Hallett, Benjamin F., 136. Hallowell, Col. Edward, 232. Hallowell, Col. Norwood, 232. Hamilton, Alexander, 154. Harbinger, The, 24, 38, 40, 50, 51.
Harding, Chester, 18, 285. Hathorne, J. H., 336.
Hawthorne, Julian, 57, 58, 339. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 24, 33, 34, 51, 54-58, 339, 378, 379, 381, 387, 394, 401. Hayden, Lewis, 140. Haymarket Theatre, 405.
Healy, George P. A., 314. "The Heart of Us," 427. Hecker, Father Isaac, 41.
Henry, Mrs., 406. Heywood, Mrs. J. P., 394.
Higginson, George, 358.
Higginson, Henry Lee, 225, 295. Higginson, Col. Thomas Went- worth, viii, ix, 60, 80, 81, 140, 223, 224, 230, 235, 323, 337, 388.
Hill, Henry, 12. Hilliard, George S., 317, 335.
Hollis Street Church, 253.
Holman, Joseph G., 406.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 43, 63, 383, 384, 414. Honey, George, 428. Horticultural Hall, 251.
Hovey, C. F., 13.
Hovey, Henry, 346.
Howard Athenæum, 246, 247, 248, 249, 262, 263, 411, 412, 413, 424, 431.
Howe, Julia Ward, viii, ix, 52, 318, 319. Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 144, 179, 193, 199, 318. Howells, William Dean, 403, 431. Hull, Commodore Isaac, 349.
Hunt, Sarah, 220.
Hunt, William Morris, 285, 286, 287, 288. Huntington, Agnes, 420.
Incledon, Benjamin Charles, 407. India Wharf Proprietors, 15, 16. Irving, Henry, 417.
Jackson, Pres. Andrew, 349. Jackson, Judge Charles, 12. Jackson, Francis, 117, 126. Jacobs, Harriet, 124. James, Henry, 322.
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Janauschek, Madam Fanny, 411, 417. Jarrett, H. J., 415.
Jefferson, Joseph, 248, 417, 426, 431. Jewett, Charles Coffin, 399. Jewett, J. P., 186, 188, 189. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 401. Johannes, Count, 410. Johnson, Oliver, 102, 105, 137. Jones, George, 410. Julien House, 341.
Keach, E. F., 257, 261, 263, 264. Kean, Charles, 412, 417, 419. Kean, Mrs. Charles, 412, 417. Kean, Edmund, 241, 406. Kean Riots, 417.
Kemble, Charles, 242.
Kemble, Fanny, 124, 242, 243, 316. Kimball, Ebenezer, 336.
Kimball, Moses, 251, 252, 254, 422, 423. King's Chapel, 279, 304.
Kingsley, Charles, 401.
Kirkland, Rev. John T., 389.
Knapp, Arthur Mason, 400.
Knapp, Isaac, 101, 105. Knight, Madam, 326.
Knowles, James Sheridan, 276. Knowlton, Helen M., 286. Kossuth, 184, 185.
Lafayette, General, 9-12, 152, 184, 338.
Lamb Tavern, 332. Lane, William Coolidge, 396.
Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 56. Lawrence, Amos A., 192. Lawrence, William, 346. Leonard, Joseph, 268. Lewis, Alonzo, 105. Liberator, The, 100-105, 113, 114, 116, 118. Lincoln, Abraham, 191, 236, 239. Lincoln, Mayor Frederick N., Jr., 366. Lind, Jenny, 259, 289-291, 293- 295, 350. Livermore, Mary A., 176, 182. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 177.
Longfellow, Henry Wads- worth, 322, 366, 370, 382, 395.
Loring, Ellis Gray, 105, 130. Loring, Mrs. Ellis Gray, 70, 107. "Lotta" (Charlotte Crabtree), 417.
Lovejoy, Rev. Elijah P., 135. Lowell, Charles Russell, 225.
Lowell, James Jackson, 225, 337. Lowell, James Russell, 60, 127, 218, 234, 383, 384.
Lowell, John, 389.
Lundy, Benjamin, 88.
Lyman, Theodore, Jr., 20, 115, 117.
Macready, William C., 349, 411. Maeder, Clara Fisher, 426. Mann, Horace, 179, 339. Manning, Rev. J. M., 225.
Mario, Giuseppe, 417.
Marlborough House, 338, 339, 385.
Marshall, Emily, 17-19, 91, 317.
Marshall, Josiah, 18.
Marshall, Wyzeman, 270, 415. Marshfield, 185.
Martineau, Harriet, 69, 124, 126, 127, 129, 130, 168, 343.
Martyn, Carlos, 157, 171, 182. "Masks and Faces," 418.
Mason, Hon. Jeremiah, 97.
Mather, Cotton, 86. Mathew, Father, 163.
Mathews, Charles, 417.
Mathews, Charles, Sr., 406.
May, Frederick W. C., 91.
May, Rev. Samuel J., 95, 99, 100, 105, 109, 110. Mayer, Mrs., 266.
McCarthy, Justin, 277.
Mccullough, J. E., 417.
Melodeon Theatre, 411.
Mill, Mrs. John Stuart, 182.
Miller, Father, 247. Mitchell, Maggie, 428.
Morris, Clara, 417.
Morse, S. F. B., 353.
Morse, Salmi, 421.
Morton, Abigail, 37.
Morton, Ichabod, 40.
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Motley, John Lothrop, 150, 388, 402. Mott, Lucretia, 182.
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 321, 402. Mowatt, Mrs. Anna Cora, 412. Murdock, Harold, 355.
"My Young Wife and an Old Umbrella," 424.
Nathan, James, 77-79.
National Intelligencer, The, 103. National (Italian Opera House), New York, 412.
National Theatre, 246, 252, 262, 409, 410, 428.
Neilson, Adelaide, 417.
New Tremont Theatre, 411.
Nilsson, Christine, 350.
Norcross, Otis, 358.
Norton, Andrews, 205.
Norton, Charles Eliot, 402. Noury, H., 268.
"Octoroon, The," 413.
"Old Corner Book Store," 400.
Old Court House, 139-142, 144, 146.
"Old Drury," 407. Old South Church, 151, 225, 357.
Old State House, 20, 114, 115, 353.
Oliver, F. J., 342.
Olympia Theatre, 408.
O'Connell, Daniel, 111, 163, 164, 172, 184.
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 21, 224, 403.
O'Reilly, Mary Boyle, 21.
Orvis, John, 53.
Ossoli, Marchesa d', see Fuller, Margaret.
Ossoli, Marquis, 79-82.
Otis, Harrison Gray, 5, 13, 16, 17, 19, 103, 113, 152, 342, 346, 390.
Otis, Mrs. Harrison Gray, 227, 298, 306-308, 310, 311, 313, 314. Otis, William Foster, 18.
Paine, J. K., 297. Papanti, Lorenzo, 314, 315.
Papyrus Club, 403.
Parepa-Rosa, 295, 299, 301, 350. Park Street Church, 355.
Parker House, 151, 279.
Parker, John, 197.
Parker, Lydia Cabot, 202-204.
Parker, Mary S., 116.
Parker, Theodore, 51, 67, 139,
143, 175, 176, 183, 193, 197- 223, 277. Parkman, Francis, 219, 388.
Parsons, Hon. Theophilus, 22, 389.
Parsons, Thomas W., 270.
"Passion Play," 421.
Patti, Adelina, 270, 350.
"Paul Jones," 420.
Payne, John Howard, 241, 242, 406. Peabody, Elizabeth, 67.
Peabody, Sophia, 57.
Peace Jubilee, 295-302.
Peale, Rembrandt, 251.
Pease, Elizabeth, 161.
Pelby, William, 246, 408, 409, 429. Perilli, 248.
Perkins, Augustus T., 17.
Perkins, James, 390, 391.
Perkins, Louisa Dumaresq, 286.
Perkins, Thomas Handyside, 346.
Perry, Nora, 321.
Phelps, Dr. Abner, 105.
Phelps, Rev. Amos A., 104.
Phillips, Adelaide, 252, 259, 289, 295, 301-304, 417, 423.
Phillips, Ann Greene, 107, 128, 135, 156-163, 175, 181.
Phillips, Mayor John, 5, 6.
Phillips, Jonathan, 136.
Phillips, Wendell, 83, 107, 128, 135-137, 150-197, 223-225, 314, 323. Pierce, Benjamin, 402.
Pierce, Franklin, 325, 350.
Pierpont, Rev. John, 8, 91, 108, 253. Poe, Edgar A., 56, 406. Poole, William F., 396. Pope, Mr., 407. "Popping the Question," 429.
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Portsmouth, N. H., 404. Prescott, William H., 387. Princess Theatre, London, 429. Proctor, Joseph, 417.
Quincy, Edmund, 12, 153. Quincy, Josiah, Mayor, 1, 2, 5-9, 11, 13, 346. Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 398. Quincy Market, 7.
Rachel, Madam, 416, 417. Radical Club, 169, 170, 223, 319-324. Récamier, Madame, 65.
Revere House, 268, 293, 350, 366. Rice, J. B., 424. Rich, Isaac B., 248.
Ripley, George, 25-29, 35, 39, 43, 44, 54, 204.
Ripley, Hannah B., 37.
Ripley, Marianne, 37. Ripley, Sophia W., 37, 42.
Ristori, Adelaide, 417.
Robertson, Agnes, 265, 266, 419, 429, 430. Robinson, William, 345. Rogers, Nathaniel, 338.
Ronalds, Fanny Carter, 368.
Rossetti, William, 371, 372. Royal Polytechnic Institute, 418. Rudersdorf, Madame, 392. Russell, Amelia, 38. Russell, George, 144. Russell, Martha, 142. Russell and Company, 15, 16. Ryan, John W., 409, 427, 428. Ryan, Thomas, 289, 291.
St. Gaudens, Augustus, 234. St. James Theatre, 411. Salvini, Tommaso, 417, 421. Sanborn, F. B., 154, 192, 321. Sargent, Epes, 414. Sargent, Franklin Haven, 320, 322.
Sargent, Rev. John T., 169, 223. Sargent, Mrs. John T., 319-324. Saturday Club, 402. Saturday Evening Gazette, 409. Savage, H. W., 416.
Savage, James, Jr., 225. Savannah, Ga., 404. Schultze, William, 295. Schurz, Carl, 322. Scott, Dorothy Quincy Han- cock, 10. Scudder, Vida D., 31. Sears, David, 346, 413. Sewall, Samuel E., 95, 96, 100, 104. Seward, William H., 223.
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Shackford, Rev. Charles C., 205. Shaw, Chief Justice, 286, 337.
Shaw, Francis Gould, 51, 202.
Shaw, Robert Gould, 51, 202, 226, 231-234. Shaw, Major Samuel, 14.
Shaw, William Smith, 389, 396.
Shepard, Preston, 333.
Shillaber, B. P., 335.
Sims, Thomas M., 140.
Sinclair, Catherine, 410.
Smith, Sydney, 177.
Smith, J. A., 261.
Smith, W. H., 257, 261.
Sontag, Madame, 248.
Sothern, Edward A., 248, 410, 417.
Sparks, Jared, 201, 366. Snelling, William J., 105. Spring, Mrs. Marcus, 82. Stackpole House, 338.
Stanley, Dean, 355. Stearns, George Luther, 193. Stebbins, Emma, 275.
Stetson, John, 248, 273, 419. Stevens, Benjamin F., 347.
Stevens, Paran, 349, 350.
Stone, Lucy, 182.
Story, Judge Joseph, 154, 328, 346.
Story, Mrs. W. S., 80, 81.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 186- 191, 261, 316. Strand Theatre, London, 424.
Stuart, Gilbert, 281, 282, 283. Studio Building, 410. Sullivan, Russell, 427.
Sumner, Charles, 154, 155, 178- 181, 195, 196, 351. Sullivan, Governor James, 12.
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Swift, Lindsay, 28, 33, 52. Sylvester, John, 389.
Tappan, Arthur, 90, 110, 112, 158.
Tappan, Lewis, 110.
Taylor, Bayard, 401.
Taylor, Father, 383.
Tedesco, 248.
Terry, Ellen, 417, 419. Thacher, Peter O., 389.
Thackeray, 401.
Thayer, Mr., 415.
Thoman, Mrs., 261.
Thompson, George, 114, 119.
111-113,
Thorndike, Israel, 342.
Thorne, Mrs. Charles, 409.
Ticknor, Anna, 318.
Ticknor, George, 9, 203.
Ticknor, Mrs. George, 317, 318. Tobin, Professor, 418.
Tompkins, Eugene, 415.
Tompkins, Dr. Orlando, 271, 272.
Topliff, Samuel, 351-353.
Tourjee, Eben, 297.
Traubel, Horace, 375.
Tremont House, 241, 245, 345- 350, 401.
Tremont Temple, 238, 250,
289.
Tremont Theatre, 238, 240, 241, 243, 244, 249, 250, 252. Trinity Church, 358-361, note 405. Trollope, Anthony, 401. Tudor, Frederick, 346. Tudor, William, Jr., 389.
United States Hotel, 350. Urso, Camilla, 295. Ursuline Convent, 9, 20, 22. "Used Up," 417.
"Vampire, The," 429. Van Buren, Martin, 349. Vandenhoff, George, 415. Vattemare, Alexandre, 397-399. Viennoise Children, 412. Vincent Club, 431. Vincent, Mary Ann Farley,
261-263, 266, 267, 410, 416, 428, 430. Von Arnim, Bettine, 207.
Wallack, J. W., 415.
Wallack, Lester, 248.
Walter, Cornelia, 206.
Walter, Lynde, 206.
Ward, Samuel G., 294.
Warner, Charles Dudley, 190.
Warren, Dr. John C., 26.
Warren, Samuel D., 358.
Warren, William, 248, 256-259, 261, 406, 423-426, 428.
Warren, William, Sr., 425.
Washington, George, 283, 313, 314.
Washington Theatre, 418. Watson, Rev. John Lee, 19.
Webster, Daniel, 67, 97, 174, 177, 178, 181, 185, 187, 211,
215, 250, 292, 307, 344, 346, 349, 350.
Weiss, John, 170, 200, 323.
Weiss, Madam, 412.
Weld, Theodore, 125.
Wells, Charles, 20.
Wells, Mrs. Kate Gannett, 317, 333.
Wentworth, Jason, 411.
West, Benjamin, 281.
Western, Helen, 410.
Western, Lucille, 410, 417.
Wheatley, Mr., 416.
Whipple, Edwin P., 402.
Whitman, Frank, 261.
Whitman, Sarah W., 288.
Whitman, Walt, 418, 322, 351, 371-375, 385.
Whittier, J. G., 134, 322, 370, 385.
William Warren Comedy Com- pany, 416. Williams, Archbishop John J., 403. Willis, N. P., viii, 18, 124. Wiley, Stephen, 335. Wilson, John, 262.
Winslow, Kate Reignolds, 255, 258, 263-265, 415. Winsor, Justin, 86, 399. Winter Garden Company, 415.
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Winthrop, Robert C., 6, 22, 359, 398. Wolcott, Josiah, 39. Wood, John, 415. Wood, Mrs., 415. Wood, Mrs. Joseph, 243.
Woolson, Mrs. Abba Goold, 297.
Young, Rev. Alexander, 99. Zerrahn, Carl, 295, 366.
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