Produced by Janet Kegg and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team MEMORIES AND ANECDOTES By KATE SANBORN AUTHOR OF "ADOPTING AN ABANDONED FARM," "ABANDONING AN ADOPTED FARM," "OLD-TIME WALL PAPERS," ETC. _WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS_ G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1915 [Illustration, _Frontispiece_: GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO EVERY READER (KATE SANBORN)] To ALL MY FRIENDS EVERYWHERE ESPECIALLY TO MY BELOVED "NEW HAMPSHIRE DAUGHTERS" IN MASSACHUSETTS, MY PUPILS IN SMITH COLLEGE, ALSO AT PACKER INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, AND ALL THOSE WHO HAD THE PATIENCE TO LISTEN TO MY LECTURES, WITH GRATEFUL REGARDS TO THOSE DARTMOUTH GRADUATES WHO, LIKING MY FATHER, WERE ALWAYS GIVING HIS AMBITIOUS DAUGHTER A HELPING HAND CONTENTS CHAPTER I My Early Days--Odd Characters in our Village--Distinguished Visitors to Dartmouth--Two Story-Tellers of Hanover--A "Beacon Light" and a Master of Synonyms--A Day with Bryant in his Country Home--A Wedding Trip to the White Mountains in 1826 in "A One-Hoss Shay"--A Great Career which Began in a Country Store CHAPTER II A Friend at Andover, Mass.--Hezekiah Butterworth--A Few of my Own Folks--Professor Putnam of Dartmouth--One Year at Packer Institute, Brooklyn--Beecher's Face in Prayer--The Poet Saxe as I Saw him--Offered the Use of a Rare Library--Miss Edna Dean Proctor--New Stories of Greeley--Experiences at St. Louis CHAPTER III Happy Days with Mrs. Botta--My Busy Life in New York--President Barnard of Columbia College--A Surprise from Bierstadt--Professor Doremus, a Universal Genius--Charles H. Webb, a truly funny "Funny Man"--Mrs. Esther Herman, a Modest Giver CHAPTER IV Three Years at Smith College--Appreciation of Its Founder--A Successful Lecture Tour--My Trip to Alaska CHAPTER V Frances E. Willard--Walt Whitman--Lady Henry Somerset--Mrs. Hannah Whitehall Smith--A Teetotaler for Ten Minutes--Olive Thorn Miller--Hearty Praise for Mrs. Lippincott (Grace Greenwood.) CHAPTER VI In and near Boston--Edward Everett Hale--Thomas Wentworth Higginson--Julia Ward Howe--Mary A. Livermore--A Day at the Concord School--Harriet G. Hosmer--"Dora Distria," our Illustrious Visitor CHAPTER VII Elected to be the First President of New Hampshire's Daughters in Massachusetts. Now Honorary President--Kind Words which I Highly Value--Three, but not "of a Kind"--A Strictly Family Affair--Two Favorite Poems--Breezy Meadows ILLUSTRATIONS GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO EVERY READER (KATE SANBORN) _Frontispiece_ THE STREET FRONTING THE SANBORN HOME AT HANOVER, N.H. MRS. ANNE C. LYNCH BOTTA PRESIDENT BARNARD OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE PROFESSOR R. OGDEN DOREMUS SOPHIA SMITH PETER MacQUEEN SAM WALTER FOSS PINES AND SILVER BIRCHES