The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-12-28
AMERICAN WRITER'S.
Ink Sketches of Some Eovclists and
Poets Of tote.

george I. LalnIop ID pale complex
Toned man, with full, dark beard and hair,
OF medium stature.
Col. Thomas w. Higginson has a tall,
athletic figure, full dark beard and hair,
and deep, agreeable voice.
Miss Lucy Larcom is medium.com-
plexioned, pleasant featured, comfortable
looking middle-aged lady, who dresses very
simply and conyelses very agreeably.
Joel Chandler Harris isa young man
with red hair, short mustache and COM
plexion that shows the effect Of the South
erAsun.- He is rather light and Of medium
height.
Edgar Fawcett, thirty-six years old lost
May, Is as tall as the average, and OF
shapely, solid build, with squarish head,
black hair, mustache and eyee, and dark
complexion.
Richard Henry stoddard is q man Of
average proportions, with white hair and a
shaggy white beard, which was once as
back as coal. He has leonine heac with
s.rongly marked features.
Charles Dudley Warner, OF medium
stature, has features thoughtful, refined
and full OF character. His thick hair and
uDshaven beard are somewhat gray, but
he looks decidedly under fifty years Of age.
Mrs. Elizateth Stuart Phelps is slen.
der, graceful woman Of 80 years, with dark
brown hair, sympathetic blue eyes, a
rather long, thin nose, fscile mouth,
never at rest, and gentle, tender voice.
Miss Louisa Alcott carries her burden Of
IS years very lightly. She is q stately lady,
unusually tall, with thick dark hair, clear
seeing eyes and stF9Bgr Feselatte features,
full Of varied expression.
"Gail Hamilton, or Mary Abigail Dodge,
which is her real name, is plain, brown
eyed lady, short in staturean inclined to
stoutness. She is said to be very fond OF
dress, adopting the most advanced styIes,
not invariably suited to her advancing
years.
George William Curtis, tifty-nine years OF
age, Is tall man with shopping shoulders,
the physical result Of years OF labor at the
editorial desk. His gray hair and wbiskeIs
are sometimes allowed to grow as they
please, from the pruning OF the tonsorial
shears.
Charles Follen Adams is OF medium
height and slender physique, with eyes
keen and bright, with sense of humor
therein, with well shaped mouth and
rounded chin, and amustaohe OF which he
is justly trihe proud. He Is extremely
neat and natty In his attire.
John G. SAKE shows unmistakably the
effects OF years and family bereavements.
He will be sixty.eight next June. He is
also suffering from the effects Of On acci-
dent received some years since. His mas
sive frame ia bent, his luxusiant hair has
grown thin and his eyes are getting dim.
Miss Nora Perry isan interesting blonde,
petite in stature, with figure that cores
pondents speak Of ss ''exauisitely perfect
in It's modelling" with strong, well con-
trolled face, that quickly reflects every
mood from grave 10 gay, with calm gray
eyes, and profusion oil what is termed new
gold hair, which persists in curling.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe ia well pre-.
served for a lady who has reached the
scriptural limit. Her figure is not heavy,
her lace Of thoughtful cast, with features
expressive oil some decisiveness and
strength oi opinion. Her gray hair is
plainly arranged. She dresses with sim
plicity, and has an air Of New England
domesticity.
James Russell Lowell is strikingly fine
looking man Of 6S. He apparently pos.
sesses good deal OF muscular power and
vigorous health for his years. He has
kindly blue eyes. His hair, naturally brown,
and beard, naturally auburn, ara fast los
ing their distinctive hues in the encroach.
ment Of the silvery threads. In manner
ne Is genial, courteous and kind, and to
strangers one OF the most approachable Of
men.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett, who had
her forty.iourth birthday Just before
Thanksgiving, is a lady OF tolerabiy petite
statute, a tritle given 10 embonpoiDt. Her
bsir ia OF reddish tinge. Her features are
large and expressive. In conversation she
Ia most yiyacious and entertaining, and
people who have talked with her 60 away
with the impression that she ID charming
person. Her dresses are q marvel Of the
modiste's art.
Bret Harte is a ratker spare, nervous
man Of torty.fiye years, with fsatureS nat.
urslly somewhat delicate. His dark hair
Is now longer than fashion dictates, and
glossy mutton chops Gdorn his cheeks. His
eyes are alert and uneasy, and were wont
/ 70 look haHgard when he hung about the
theatres where his plays didn't succeed.
Tickle fortune has smiled upon him re-
Gently, In reparati0n, perhspe, OF degree
Of neglect In the remote past.
Samuel L, Clemens MARX Twain is
compact in figure, of medium height, and
has frank, sensible face, touched with
good nature, but revealing behind that no
small amount OF resolution. His CONVEX.
sation Is replete with the humor that char
acterizss his writings. He is just forty
eight years Of sge, WAS married thirteen
years since, and enjoys much domestic
comfort with bis vile and two charming
little girls at . pleasant mansion in Hart.
ford, Conn.
Walt Whitman, the good gray poet" 10
tall, erect and stout, and moves about with
! ;he aid OF a large cane. His white hair,
throyn straight back from his brow, and
lfnll white beard give him patrisrchal
anpearance, His Clleeksare fresh and rud.
dy: his forehead Ia deeply furrowed with
horizontal lines, bis eyes light blue, but
not large; his lips iulli his CT eaks round
and smooth; his Eve senses are exception.
ally acute; his voice clear 81 d firm. In
| dress be ia very simple, busalwRys acrupu.
llously neat and clean.
Henry James Is described by those
who knew him in his curly literary daysas
a delicate looking young man, handsome
and strikingly refined in appearance. He
now full In figure, but not stout, and 10
| u medium height. He has rather rudy
complexion, and dtrx brown hair and
ayes, and he wears his beard close crop
ned. Heis slightly bald, and 10 said to re,
semble the Prince Of Wales In face and
figure. Hehas an appearance OF excellent
hath, but this Is far from being the TACT
for he Is much Of an invalid, and Otter
suffers intensely.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Is Of liQht com
plexion. He Ia about ayear younger thai
MI. Howella. Hehas fine forehead ant