Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note about Sources xi
5. Sarah Payson Willis, Outskirts of Boston, Saturday, June 29th, 1816 1
6. Catharine Beecher, Sara Payson Willis, and Harriet Beecher (Stowe), Hartford, Hartford Female Seminary, Sunday, October 3rd, 1830 7
7. Nathaniel Willis, Boston, Wednesday, April 12th, 1837 13
8. Julia Willis, Sara Payson Willis, and Charles Eldredge, Boston, Wednesday, April 12th, 1837 17
9. Sara Payson Willis, Nathaniel Willis, and N. P. Willis, Boston, Wednesday, April 12th, 1837 21
10. Mary Eldredge, Brighton, Massachusetts, Friday, October 9th, 1846 27
11. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge, Boston, Friday, December 22nd, 1848 37
12. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington, Boston, Thursday, January 17th, 1850 45
13. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington and Harriet Jacobs, Boston, Friday, January 10th, 1851 55
14. Grace Eldredge, Newton, Massachusetts, Wednesday, February 19th, 1851 63
15. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington, the Road from Boston to Newton, Saturday, April 26th, 1851 69
16. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington, Boston, Friday, June 13th, 1851 77
17. James Parton, New York, Monday, July 14th, 1851 87
18. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington, Boston, Monday, July 14th, 1851 91
19. Louisa Jacobs, New York, Monday, July 14th, 1851 97
20. N. P. Willis, New Orleans, Monday, August 16th, 1852 101
21. Lucy Bumstead (nee Willis), Boston, Monday, August 16th, 1852 105
22. James Parton, New York City, Monday, August 16th, 1852 109
23. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington, Boston, Friday, September 17th, 1852 113
24. Oliver Dyer, New York, Friday, September 17th, 1852 123
25. Sara Payson Willis Eldredge Farrington, Boston, Tuesday, February 1st, 1853 127
26. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Boston, Tuesday, February 1st, 1853 133
27. Fanny Fern, Boston, Tuesday, February 8th, 1853 139
28. Grace Eldredge, Newton, Tuesday, February 8th, 1853 143
29. Oliver Dyer and Fanny Fern, Boston, Thursday, February 10th, 1853 149
30. Hezekiah Eldredge, Newton, Monday, March 14th, 1853 155
31. N. P. Willis, Idlewild, New York, Monday, April 18th, 1853 161
32. James Parton, New York, Monday, June 3rd, 1853 169
33. Mary Eldredge, Newton, Monday, June 17th, 1853 173
34. Catharine Beecher, Milwaukee, Monday, June 17th, 1853 177
35. Fanny Fern, Oliver Dyer, and Richard Willis, Boston, Monday, June 17th, 1853 179
36. Fanny Fern, Boston and Newton, Friday, July 1st, 1853 183
37. Fanny Fern, New York City, Friday, July 1st, 1853 189
38. Fanny Fern, New York City, Friday, July 8th, 1853 193
39. Grace Eldredge, Niagara Falls, Sunday, July 10th, 1853 199
40. Nathaniel Willis, Boston, Thursday, September 22nd, 1853 205
41. Ellen (Nelly) Eldredge, New York, Thursday, September 22nd, 1853 209
42. James Parton, New York, Thursday, September 22nd, 1853 213
43. Fanny Fern, New York, Tuesday, January 17th, 1854 221
44. Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, Thursday, February 8th, 1855 235
45. Fanny Fern and Catharine Beecher, New York, Friday, March 30th, 1855 239
46. Fanny Fern, Hoboken, New Jersey, Saturday, January 5th, 1856 255
47. Fanny Fern and Walt Whitman, New York, Friday, March 14th, 1856 267
48. Grace Eldredge, New York, Sunday, June 8th, 1856 273
49. James Parton, Brooklyn, Saturday, October 4th, 1856 277
50. Fanny Fern, Brooklyn, Saturday, October 4th, 1856 281
51. Walt Whitman, Brooklyn, Saturday, October 4th, 1856 287
52. Ellen Eldredge, New York, Thursday, May 26th, 1859 291
53. James Parton, New York, Thursday, May 26th, 1859 295
54. Fanny Fern, New York, Thursday, May 26th, 1859 299
55. Grace Eldredge Thomson, New York, Tuesday, September 16th, 1862 307
56. Fanny Fern and Grace Thomson, New York, Tuesday, December 23rd, 1862 311
57. Fanny Fern and Effie Thomson, Wednesday, March 20th, 1867 317
58. James Parton, New York, Saturday, April 11th, 1868 323
59. Fanny Fern and James Parton, Newport, Monday, August 26th, 1872 329
60. Ellen Eldredge, Cambridge, Tuesday, October 13th, 1872 335
61. Epilogue 341