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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 20: friends and worthies: social successes (search)
Boston with my father for a brief visit, my dear tutor, Joseph G. Cogswell, undertook to give us this pleasure. Mr. Allston's studio was in Cambridge port. He admitted no one within it during his working hours, save occasionally his friend Franklin Dexter, who was obliged to announce his presence by a particular way of knocking at the door. Mr. Cogswell managed to get possession of this secret, and when we drove to the door of the studio he made use of the well-known signal. Dexter, is thatDexter, is that you? cried a voice from within. A moment later saw us within the sanctuary. My father was intending to order a picture from Mr. Allston, and this circumstance amply justified Mr. Cogswell, in his own opinion, for the stratagem employed to gain us admittance. Mr. Allston was surprised but not disconcerted by our entrance, and proceeded to do the honors of the rather bare apartment with genial grace. He had not then unrolled his painting of Belshazzar's Feast, which, begun many years befor
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
L., manager of the Howard Athenaeum, declines Mrs. Howe's drama, 240. Davidson, Prof., Thomas, lectures on Aristotle, 406, 408. Davis, Charles Augustus, his Downing Letters, 24, 25. Davis, Admiral Charles H., attends one of Mrs. Howe's lectures, 309. De Long, Lieut. G. W., at the dance given by the Howes in Santo Domingo, 356. De Mesmekir, John, 4. Denison, Bishop, 140. Desmoulins, M. Benoit C., his kindness to Mrs. Howe, 413. Devlin, Mary. See Booth, Mrs. Edwin. Dexter, Franklin, a friend of Allston, 429. Dial, The, Margaret Fuller's paper, 145. Diary of an Ennuyee, Mrs. Jameson's, 40. Dickens, Charles, dinner to, in New York, 26; at Mr. Rogers's dinner, 99; takes the Howes to Bridewell Prison, 108; gives a dinner for them, 110. Dickinson, Anna, 305. Disciples, Church of the, 256; Governor Andrew a member of, 263. Divine Love and Wisdom, Swedenborg's, 204, 209. Dix, Dorothea L., her work for the insane, 88. Don Giovanni, its libretto, 24; admire