THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO ONE THROUGH WHOSE CONSTANT ENCOURAGEMENT AND WISE ADVICE I OWE MY SUCCESS IN THE FIELD OF LITERATURE The wonderfully good collection of antiques for which Salem is noted was of great interest to me, being owned by personal friends who kindly consented to allow me for the first time to go through their homes and pick out the cream of their inheritance. If the readers are half as interested in these objects as I have become,--growing enthusiastic in the work through the valuable pieces found,--they will enjoy the pictures of colonial furnishings, many of which cannot be duplicated in any other collection of antiques. Family bits, wonderful old Lowestoft, and other tr…
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