Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-14

recently wrote a letter to the genial DR..
! Oliver Wendell Holmes, addressed te
q Miss Olive Holmes - al really felt.it
my duty said the autocrat recently
s'not to answer that letter and he
didn't. It is amusing TO learn to how
many of our best known authors the most
absurd mistakes of this kind have hap
pened. Even Charles Dickens was mol
an exception, for people would spell his
name with two ''ks instead of the
eek. - Charles Reade once had a re-
quest for a lock of his hair addressed to
him as tsSir Charles Reid. - And 1t is
| funny that these misspellers always ask
/ favors.
SUMMER wANDERINGS OF AUTHORS.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich has joined the
number of European travellers this year.
Our three foremost poets make but lit
tie change in their summer plans-Mr
Lowell is at Brighton, England; DR..
Holmes has gone to his place at Beverly
Farms, while Mr.. Whittier will stay at
his home in Danvers until August, when
the poet annually goes to the White
Mountains
Julia Ward Howe and her daughter
Maud Howe, are at their Newport cot
tage.
Frank R. Stockton will summer at
Convent station, n. j.
Margaret Deland is at Kennebunkport
Me.
Celie Thaxter has gone to her summer
home, "Appledore, - on the Isles of
Shoals. She will do little literary work
during the heated term.
Mrs. Sarah Orne Jewett IS summer will
be spent at her home in South Berwick, ,
Me-, writing for the Magazines.
Edgar Fawcett will pass his time in the
Catskil1s breaking the ground for new
novel, and working at an adaptation of
work from the Germans. for Augustin
DAILY.
Marion Harland will edit her maya
zine from her summed home at Pompton,
N. j. -.
Martha J. Lamb; the historian, is to
spend part of august at Gardiner s
Island. Mrs. Lamb is tireless worker
whose chief enjoyment seems to come
from the editorship of her successful his
torical magazine. She has cool office
on the top story of the Scribner building
"a pleasant idlIng place for congenial
literary people.
George Bancroft will stay at Newport.
Louise Chandler Moulton is in London
and will not return to America until
September.
Edward Eggleston always summers at
Lake George.
Francis Parkman, the historian, has
gone to his summer home at Jamaica
Plains, Mass. He is as fond of roses and
horticulture as is his brother historian,
Bancroft, and is fonder still of rowing on
lake just in front of his house.
Mr.. Howells will sojourn at one of Bos-
ton s rural suburbs.
Amelia E. Barr will pass most of the
summer at her own home on Storm King
mountain, on the Hudson In August
she will make hasty trip to London.
Olive Thorne Miller finds her summer
rest mostly in the study of birds. "Where
am going? will tell yoUf. A certain
wild nook in the Berkshire hills of Massa-
chusetts; lonely farm house half way up
Mount Greylock, where city ways are
unknown and the summer boaFder
(call it not prY into! y the ways of GER
tain modest individuals whose choice it
is to sblush unseen, namely: the blue
jay. The domesticated jay 1 know well,
but to see his many and varied talents
employed in domestic duties, to see how
he conducts himself as wooer and head
of family ;above all, to make acquaint-
ance with the blue jay baby is my am
bition for the next three or four weeks.
So far, however, the bird is too wary
for me. Somewhere, am sure, he has
set up a household, he is so preternat-
urally silent; but though he faunts his
blue draperies before my eyes, the sly
rogue always manages to elude pur-
suit. - WILLIAM j. Box.