The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-09

have a beautiful! location and have i'm
proved it in costly and artistic man
ner. They cali II Biantyre and expect
to spend their summers here.
1 might fill columns by simply emu
merating the picturesque palaces of the
millionairies, but there are modest homes
of greater interest An old cottage called
summer home of Fanny Kemble, the
famous English actress, and her me-
mOirs bear testimony to the affection
she felt for this place and the pleasure
she enjoyed here She came to Lenox in
1886, ana, although the puritanical ele-
ment of the population did not receive
her kindly, she overcame their prejudices
against her profession and identified her
self completely with the community. The
clock in the old town hall was her gift,
brought from England with her own lug
gage. She bought a large tract Of land
and found it a fortunate investment She
gave Shakespearean readings in the town
hall almost every year for the local char
titles, and so great was her fame that
people came all the way from SPRING
field, Albany and other distant towns 10
attend them She became an intimate
friend of Miss Sedgwick, the authoress.
and of Charlotte Cushman. who at the
erward was bought by Henry Ward
Beecher The people of Lenox showed
their appreciation Of Fanny Kemble's
generosity by naming street In her
belongs to Mrs William Thompson of
New York.
on a terrace Just below where Fanny
Kemble lived is a large white mansion
the neighbors have taken the liberty to
christen it 1.-The House of Mirth." be-
cause 1t was built two years ago and
has since been occupied by Edith Whar-
ton. the author of that novel. She lives
here seven or eight months in the year.
Her husband, Edward r. Wharton, or
a wealthy old Boston family. has been
coming here since his childhood His
mother has one of the most beautiful
of the old fashioned places near the cen
ter of the town, surrounded by quaint
garden. On the opposite side of the
street from Mrs. Wharton, ST., is SINH
lar place. an old, rambling, yellow man
sion, which has belonged to the FrelinS
huysens of New Jersey for several gen.
eratiOns. They were among the first to
recognize and appreciate the attractions
Of Lenox-
While Fanny Kemble was the star cot
ager of Lenox a literary young man
named Hawthorne came. He had shortly
befora published a novel called The
Scarlet Letter that created a great sem
sation. He rented a little frame cot
tage on the shore of the lake known as
StockbTidge Bowl, which commanded one
of the most picturesque views in all this
country. The tenant enjoyed IL so much
that he came and came again for sew
erdl seasons anu III Oiie VI the ItOAilo
wrote THE House of the Seven Gables"
THE Wonder Book and THE Blithedale
Romance" as well as many of the fas-
chatting letters which have been since
published by his children.
Henry James the novelist, lived here
at the same time-from 1851 to 1S56-Oliver
Wendell Holmes spent those days at
Pittsfield; James Russell Lowell and
James T Fields had cottages in the
neighboring town of Stockbridge, and
William Cullen Bryant was a summer res
ident of Great Darlington. thus making
a notable coterie of literary men,
Mr. Bryant was born in Great Bar
rington. He went from there to Williams
college. and after his graduation returned
to study law in the office of a local at
torney He was town clerk from 1916
to 1921 and practtced law there with in
different success until 1925.
WILLIAM Z. CURTIS.