Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs James T Fields . it means whenMrs. Fields asks me to lunch at one oclock! with anarch look at me. I was extremely penitent and hurriedthe lunch, but the people could not go out of the dining-room. However, all was cleaned at last and we had aquiet cosy talk and sit-down, which was delightful. On Saturday she sang from Hamlet, the madscene of Ophelia. As usual, her dress and whole appear-ance were of the most refined and perfect beauty, andher singing we appreciated even more deeply than h
Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs James T Fields . it means whenMrs. Fields asks me to lunch at one oclock! with anarch look at me. I was extremely penitent and hurriedthe lunch, but the people could not go out of the dining-room. However, all was cleaned at last and we had aquiet cosy talk and sit-down, which was delightful. On Saturday she sang from Hamlet, the madscene of Ophelia. As usual, her dress and whole appear-ance were of the most refined and perfect beauty, andher singing we appreciated even more deeply than has not the remote exalte nature of highest genius,but she is the great singer of this new time, and herrealism is in marked sympathy with her period. It has already been suggested that, when ThomasBailey Aldrich made his migration to Boston as editor ofEvery Saturday, he brought into the circle of theFieldses many fresh breezes from the outer world. Inthe diary of Mrs. Fields there are frequent notes re-vealing a friendship which lasted, indeed, long afterthe diary ceased, and up to the end of Aldrichs CHRISTINE NILSSON AS OPHELIA STAGE FOLK AND OTHERS 227 in 1907. Two entries — the first relating to the mete-oric author of The Diamond Lens, regarded in itsday as a bright portent in the literary heavens, the sec-ond to the Aldriches themselves at the country placewith the name which Aldrich embalmed in his excellenttitle, From Ponkapog to Pesth — warrant conver-sion from manuscript into print. November 9,1865. — Aldrich told us the story of Fitz-James OBrien, the able author of The DiamondLens. He was a handsome fellow, and began his careerby running away with the wife of an English officer was in Lidia, and Fitz-James and the guiltywoman had fled to one of the seaports on the south ofEngland in order to take passage for America, when thearrival of the womans husband was announced to themand OBrien fled. He concealed himself on board a shipbound for New
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