[50] "Hamlet at the Boston," Later Lyrics, 1866.
[51] To Mary Devlin, an actress of great charm.
[52] Lyrical Ventures, by Samuel Ward.
[53] The mother of Charles Sumner.
[54] Dr. Howe raised the money for this statue.
[55] Mrs. Francis and Mrs. McAllister.
[56] No. 19.
[57] Sister of James Freeman Clarke. An artist of some note and a beloved friend of our mother.
[58] Margaret Foley, the sculptor.
[59] The widow of her uncle, William G. Ward.
[60] Andrew Johnson.
[61] Dr. Francis Lieber, the eminent German-American publicist.
[62] Mr. Howells, in his Literary Boston Thirty Years Ago, thus speaks of her (1895): "I should not be just to a vivid phase if I failed to speak of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and the impulse of reform which she personified. I did not sympathize with this then so much as I do now, but I could appreciate it on the intellectual side. Once, many years later, I heard Mrs. Howe speak in public, and it seemed to me that she made one of the best speeches I had ever heard. It gave me for the first time a notion of what women might do in that sort if they entered public life; but when we met in those earlier days I was interested in her as perhaps our chief poetess. I believe she did not care to speak much of literature; she was alert for other meanings in life, and I remember how she once brought to book a youthful matron who had perhaps unduly lamented the hardships of housekeeping, with the sharp demand, 'Child, where is your religion?' After the many years of an acquaintance which had not nearly so many meetings as years, it was pleasant to find her, not long ago, as strenuous as ever for the faith or work, and as eager to aid Stepniak as John Brown. In her beautiful old age she survives a certain literary impulse of Boston, but a still higher impulse of Boston she will not survive, for that will last while the city endures."
[63] Count Alberto Maggi, an Italian littérateur.
[64] At the Lexington Lyceum for the Monument Fund.
[65] This was evidently a meeting of the "Brain Club."
[66] "Kenyon's Legacy," printed in Later Lyrics.
[67] Formerly Anagnostopoulos. He dropped the last three syllables soon after coming to this country.
[68] The Handel and Haydn Festival.
[69] 1869-1871. He took the course of geology and mining engineering, graduating at the head of his class.
[70] Napoleon III.
[71] "To suckle fools and chronicle small beer." Othello.
[72] Reminiscences, p. 346.
[73] Reminiscences, p. 362.
[74] Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe.
[75] Mrs. Charles C. Perkins.
[76] She had a great regard and admiration for Miss Mitchell. Scientific achievement seemed to her well-nigh miraculous, and roused in her an almost childlike reverence.
[77] Of the Redpath Bureau.
[78] Reminiscences, pp. 411 and 412.
[79] The armless painter. See ante, vol. I, chap. xii.
[80] The Prussian aristocracy.
[81] Reminiscences, p. 423.
[82] Reminiscences, p. 423.
[83] The present King, Victor Emanuel III.
[84] Reminiscences, p. 425.
[85] The favorite wife of the Khedive.
[86] A cousin who was of the party.
[87] Ismail Pasha.
[88] A negro attendant.
[89] A Greek Protestant minister.
[90] Francis Parkman had written an article opposing woman suffrage.
[91] Luther Terry, an American painter who had lived long in Rome, and had been a close friend of Thomas Crawford. He survived his wife by some years.
[92] Dr. H. P. Beach.
[93] The late Richard Sullivan.
[94] Welsh for "glory": a favorite exclamation of hers, learned in childhood from a Welsh servant.
[95] John Howe Hall.
[96] Laura had once been told that she "would not amount to much without her good nature."
[97] Berkeley Chambers, where she and Maud spent this winter.
[98] Michael.
[99] This was a summer school of ten years (1879-88) in which Emerson, Alcott, and W. T. Harris took part.
[100] Reminiscences, p. 440.
[101] These essays were published in a volume entitled Is Polite Society Polite?
[102] Cf. Æschylus.
[103] Miss Sarah J. Eddy, then of Providence, a granddaughter of Francis Jackson.
[104] Boston.
[105] Thomas Davidson, founder of the "New Fellowship" (London and New York) and of the "Breadwinners' College."
[106] Mrs. George Russell, widow of the Doctor's friend and college chum.
[107] Caroline Tappan was Caroline Sturgis, daughter of Captain William Sturgis, and sister of Ellen (Sturgis) Hooper,—member of the inmost Transcendentalist circle, and friend of Emerson, Ellery Channing, and Margaret Fuller.
[108] Song Album. Published by G. Schirmer & Co.
[109] Henry Marion Howe.
[110] The Reverend Antoinette Blackwell.
[111] Ralph Adams Cram, architect and littérateur.
[112] Author of Civil Rights of Women.
[113] Son of Abraham Lincoln.
[114] Lady Battersea.
[115] Sergius Stepniak, a Russian author, then a political exile living in England.
[116] Rosmini-Serbati, a noted philosopher and founder of the order of the Brothers of Charity.
[117] Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown was at this time president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and had prepared this exhibit, the first of its kind in club history.
[118] Now (1915) a political prisoner in Siberia: she escaped, but was recaptured and later removed to a more remote place of imprisonment.
[119] Mrs. Winthrop Chanler.
[120] Anagnos.
[121] Dr. Wesselhoeft.
[122] Harold Crawford, who was killed in the present war (1915), fighting for the Allies.
[123] Now Cardinal O'Connell.
[124] I.e., Clerical.
[125] Her brother-in-law, Luther Terry.
[126] Elliott was at work upon his Triumph of Time, a ceiling decoration for the Boston Public Library.
[127] In the Reminiscences.
[128] The late John Hays Gardiner, author of The Bible as Literature, The Forms of Prose Literature, and Harvard.
[129] Edwin Arlington Robinson, author of Captain Craig, etc.
[130] The facsimile printed in the Reminiscences contains the discarded stanza.
[131] Julia Ward Richards.
[132] A terrible storm and tidal wave which had nearly destroyed the city.
[133] James Freeman Clarke.
[134] The Triumph of Time, at the Public Library.
[135] Dr. Lawrence J. Henderson.
[136] The bridegroom, Henry Marion Hall.
[137] That is, to have it bought by some public society.
[138] An editor.
[139] Professor Todd, of Amherst, and his wife, Mabel Loomis Todd.
[140] Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe.
[141] Count Mayer des Planches.