The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale . d added to them some biographical writ-ing in which he began to gather the reminiscences ofhis life already so full of interesting people andthings. Beside A New England Boyhood hewrote James Russell Lowell and his Friends, inwhich his lifelong friendship supplied him with astore of material and a point of view that few otherscould have had. He lived in the now old house at 39 HighlandStreet during these years; in 1892 he and my mothermade a last trip to Europe with his old friend,George R. Carpenter; in 1896 he made with Ellena trip to California,
The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale . d added to them some biographical writ-ing in which he began to gather the reminiscences ofhis life already so full of interesting people andthings. Beside A New England Boyhood hewrote James Russell Lowell and his Friends, inwhich his lifelong friendship supplied him with astore of material and a point of view that few otherscould have had. He lived in the now old house at 39 HighlandStreet during these years; in 1892 he and my mothermade a last trip to Europe with his old friend,George R. Carpenter; in 1896 he made with Ellena trip to California, as has been told. His summerswere passed chiefly at Matunuck, where the nucleusmade by Mr. Weedens house and his was nowgradually extending into a summer colony. Often hewent for a time to Folly Cove on Cape Ann, whereEllen spent much of the time in the summer, andwhere my mother was rather more apt to go thanto Matunuck. He also went in the summer toIntervale, New Hampshire, where he would staywith Miss H. E. Freeman, who had long been one. X U <o I—I H<Ou a oU HO CO t5 K. CO V. DAY TO DAY MATTERS 357 of his earnest assistants in all sorts of work. Herehe enjoyed the mountain country immensely, andfelt entirely at home. Here it was, chiefly in lateryears, that Miss Freeman was led to note down,often from his dictation, the details as to his lifeand interests which have often been cited in thesepages. In these years he looked back over his own lifea good deal and one finds among his papers a gooddeal of memory and reminiscence. He wrote dur-ing these years A New England Boyhood, — anautobiography which carried the story of his lifedown to the end of his college course. It is a veryentertaining book not only on his own childhoodbut on Old Boston. At this time also he tried fora while an experiment which was rather in his line,as he would have said. He found a blank bookand wrote in it *I am not sure if this be a bookwhich Frederic Greenleaf bought and gave to me,when
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