Mount Auburn Cemetery.

To Edwin Booth.

To Edwin Booth.

inscription is to the memory of her husband, James R. Vincent, with the statement that the tablet is inscribed to his memory by his affectionate wife. Below this are the words, "Mary Ann Vincent, wife of James R. Vincent," and the date of her death.
      It seems fitting that three of the greatest American poets, Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes, who were all their lives close friends, and much of the time near neighbors, should not be far separated in the place of their burial. The grave of Longfellow is on Indian Ridge Path, opposite to and overlooking the little Forest Pond. It is covered by a sarcophagus of Ohio marble with the simple inscription, "Longfellow," in front, and on the other side the words, "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Born 27 Feb. 1807, Died 24 March 1882." At one end is a wreath; at the other the ancient device which blends the words, Dux, Lux, Rex, Lex. A granite curbing surrounds the lot.
      Under Indian Ridge, on Fountain Avenue, within a stone's toss of the grave of Longfellow, was buried James Russell Lowell, who was the second of the three friends to be called into the silent land. His grave lies far back in the lot, and is heavily shaded. The stone which marks it is a gray slate slab, of antique design and ornamentation, decorated with an hourglass and other ancient symbols. It bears the inscription: "Sacred to the Memory of James Russell Lowell, born 1819, died 1891; and of his wife, Maria White, born 1821, died 1853; and also of his second wife, Frances Dunlap, born 1825, died 1885."
      To find the grave of Holmes, the beloved "Autocrat," the visitor must

To Charlotte Cushman.

To Charlotte Cushman.

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