Cheerful Yesterdays (1898)

To My Wife
Mary Thacher Higginson
WHOSE SUNNY INFLUENCE ADDS APPROPRIATENESS TO THE
TITLE, ADOPTED AT HER SUGGESTION, OF THIS BOOK
OF REMINSCENCES

CAMBRIDGE, MASS., February 12, 1898

NOTE

  The chapters of this book have appeared at short intervals in the “Atlantic Monthly” and are here reprinted with careful revision and with a few additions. Some of the latter are taken from a sketch of the author’s mother, published originally in the “Ladies’ Home Journal.” These are here included by permission of the proprietors of that periodical.

CONTENTS

  1. I. A Cambridge Boyhood
  2. II. A Child of the College
  3. III. The Period of Newness
  4. IV. The Rearing of a Reformer
  5. V. The Fugitive Slave Epoch
  6. VI. The Birth of a Literature
  7. VII. Kansas and John Brown
  8. VIII. Civil War
  9. IX. Literary London Twenty Years Ago
  10. X. Literary Paris Twenty Years Ago
  11. XI. On the Outskirts of Public Life
  12.    Epilogue

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