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GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO EVERY READER
(KATE SANBORN)

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

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 GreatCareer which Began in a Country Store

CHAPTER II

A Friend at Andover, Mass.—Hezekiah Butterworth—A Few of my OwnFolks—Professor Putnam of Dartmouth—One Year at Packer Institute,Brooklyn—Beecher's Face in Prayer—The Poet Saxe as I Sawhim—Offered the Use of a Rare Library—Miss Edna Dean Proctor—NewStories of Greeley—Experiences at St. Louis