. Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship. rs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Pres-cott Spofford, Mrs. Phelps Ward, and other New Eng-land writers who still lived in New England, andlargely in the region of Boston. Occasionally therecame a poem from Bryant, at New York, from , from Mr. Stoddard and Mrs. Stoddard, fromMr. Aldrich, and from Bayard Taylor. But all these,except the last, were not only of New England race,but of New England birth. I think there was no con-tributor from the South but Mr. M. T). Conway, and asyet the West scarcely counted, th
. Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship. rs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Pres-cott Spofford, Mrs. Phelps Ward, and other New Eng-land writers who still lived in New England, andlargely in the region of Boston. Occasionally therecame a poem from Bryant, at New York, from , from Mr. Stoddard and Mrs. Stoddard, fromMr. Aldrich, and from Bayard Taylor. But all these,except the last, were not only of New England race,but of New England birth. I think there was no con-tributor from the South but Mr. M. T). Conway, and asyet the West scarcely counted, though four young poetsfrom Ohio, who were not immediately or remotely ofPuritan origin, had appeared in early numbers; AliceCary, living with her sister in New York, had writtennow and then from the beginning. Mr. John Haysolely represented Illinois by a single paper, and hewas of Rhode Island stock. It was after my settle-ment at Boston that ]\Iark Twain, of Missouri, becamea figure of world-wide fame at Hartford; and longerafter, that Mr. Bret Harte made that progress East- 114. JULIA WARD HOWE LITERARY BOSTON AS I KNEW IT ward from California which was telegraphed almostfrom hour to hour, as if it were the progress of aprince. Miss Constance F. Woolson had not yet be-gun to write. Mr. James Whitcomb Riley, Mr. Mau-rice Thompson, Miss Edith Thomas, Octave Thanet,Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard, Mr. H. B. Fuller,Mrs. Catherwood, Mr. Hamlin Garland, all whom Iname at random among other A¥estern writers, were thenas unknown as Mr. Cable, Miss Murfree, Mrs. RivesChanler, Miss Grace King, Mr. Joel Chandler Harris,^Ir. Thomas Nelson Page, in the South, which they byno means fully represent. The editors of the Atlantic had been eager from thebeginning to discover any outlying literature; but, asI have said, there was in those days very little goodwriting done beyond the borders of New England. Ifthe case is now different, and the best known amongliving American writers are no longer New
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