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Miss Larcom’s Books.
POETICAL WORKS. Household Edition. WithPortrait, 12mo, $1.50; full gilt, $2.00.
POEMS. 16mo, $1.25.
AN IDYL OF WORK. 16mo, $1.25.
WILD ROSES OF CAPE ANN, AND OTHER POEMS.16mo, gilt top, $1.25.
CHILDHOOD SONGS. Illustrated, 12mo, $1.00.
EASTER GLEAMS. Poems. 16mo, parchmentpaper, 75 cents.
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. 16mo, $1.00.
AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, and other Songsof Faith. 16mo, $1.00.
THE UNSEEN FRIEND. 16mo, $1.00.
A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD, outlined fromMemory. In Riverside Library for Young People.16mo, 75 cents.
Holiday Edition. 16mo, $1.25.
BREATHINGS OF THE BETTER LIFE. Edited byLucy Larcom. 18mo, $1.25.
ROADSIDE POEMS FOR SUMMER TRAVELLERS.Selected by Lucy Larcom. 18mo, $1.00.
HILLSIDE AND SEASIDE IN POETRY. Selectedby Lucy Larcom. 18mo, $1.00.
BECKONINGS FOR EVERY DAY. A Collection ofQuotations for each day in the year. Compiled byLucy Larcom. 16mo, $1.00.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY,
Boston and New York.
LUCY LARCOM
LIFE, LETTERS, AND DIARY
BY
DANIEL DULANY ADDISON
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895
Copyright, 1894,
By DANIEL DULANY ADDISON.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
PREFACE
It was the purpose of Miss Larcom to write asequel to her hook, “A New England Girlhood,”in which she intended to give some account of herlife in the log-cabins on the Western prairies as apioneer and schoolmistress, and her experiences asa teacher in Wheaton Seminary, and as an editorand literary woman. She also wished to trace thegrowth of her religious ideas by showing the processthrough which she was led to undergo changesthat finally made her accept a less rigorous theologythan the one in which she had been reared.Her fascinating style, with its wealth of reminiscenceand interesting detail, would have characterizedher later book, as it did the former, but shedied before begi