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Crowding Memories

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, Mrs. (Lillian Woodman Aldrich). Crowding Memories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1920.
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Type
book
Genre
biography
Abstract

Crowding Memories is Mrs. Aldrich's memoir of her life with her husband and their mutual friends. The history is very personal and tells the stories of the lives of some of the literary and artistic notables of the Aldrichs' acquaintance, including Mark Twain, Edwin Booth, and William Dean Howells.

People Mentioned in this Work
Aldrich, Thomas [pages: 85, 162-4, 224]

Taylor wrote a sonnet for Aldrich's marriage to Miss Woodman on November 28, 1865 (85).
Mrs. Aldrich discusses Taylor seeing them off on the Abyssinia when the Aldriches went abroad and how he brought them his own cure for seasickness (162-164).
Aldrich writes a letter expressing his sorrow over Bayard Taylor's death (224).