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Howells’s Literary Friends and Acquaintance A Portrait
Howells’s new memoir volume blends personal recollections from his forty years in letters with portraits of Lowell Holmes Longfellow and other Cambridge figures. The book adds rare illustrations and vivid scenes from Pfaff’s cafe to Old Corner Book Store, revealing the young Howells and the literary milieu that shaped him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Commercial Advertiser
Mr. Howells
Howells
J. J. Pratt
Saturday Press
New York
Bohemia
E. C. Stedman
William Allen Butler
R. H. Stoddard
John Holmes
Cambridge
Concord
Hawthorne
Lowell
Holmes
Longfellow
Bayard Taylor
Howell
New England
Mr. Ticknor
Fields
Imns
Boston
Bird
Fitz James O'Brien
Fitshughlow
al Stedman
Elysian Fields
Atlantic Monthly
Child
Boyesen
Gunnar
Henry James the Elder
Louis Agassiz
John Fiske
Richard Henry Dana
Ralph Kepler
Forcey the Willson
Dr. Holmes
Cranch
Ae Eliot
Norton
Howel