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LITERARY SHRINES
FIFTH EDITION
BY DR. WOLFE
Uniform with this volume
A LITERARY PILGRIMAGE
AMONG THE HAUNTS OF SOME FAMOUS BRITISH AUTHORS
Treating descriptively and reminiscently of the homes and resorts ofEnglish writers from the time of Chaucer to the present, and of thescenes commemorated in their works
262 pages. Illustrated with four photogravures. $1.25
A LITERARY PILGRIMAGE AND LITERARY SHRINES
Two volumes in a box, $2.50
The Wayside, Concord
LITERARY
SHRINES
THE HAUNTS OF SOME
FAMOUS AMERICAN
AUTHORS
BY THEODORE F. WOLFE
M.D. Ph.D.
AUTHOR OF A LITERARY PILGRIMAGE ETC.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA. MDCCCXCV
Copyright, 1895,
by
Theodore F. Wolfe.
Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
TO
MY WIFE,
MY SYMPATHETIC AND APPRECIATIVE
COMPANION IN PILGRIMAGES
TO MANY
LITERARY SHRINES
IN THE NEW WORLD AND THE OLD,
THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
PREFACE
FOR some years it has been the delightful privilege of the writer of thepresent volume to ramble and sojourn in the scenes amid which hisbest-beloved authors erst lived and wrote. He has made repeatedpilgrimages to most of the shrines herein described, and has been, atone time or another, favored by intercourse and correspondence with manyof the authors adverted to or with their surviving friends andneighbors. In the ensuing pages he has endeavored to portray theseshrines in pen-pictures which, it is hoped, may be interesting to thosewho are unable to visit them and helpful and companionable for those whocan and will. If certain prominent American authors receive little morethan mention in these pages, it is mainly because so