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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 3: New York society (search)
, and to extol those of her youth, in which she was one of the élegantes of Southern society. She remembered with pleasure that General Washington once crossed a ball-room to speak with her. This was probably when she was the wife or widow of Colonel Herne, to whom she was married at the age of fourteen (when her dolls, she told me, were taken away from her), and whose death occurred before she had attained legal majority. She had received a good musical education for those times, and Colonel Perkins of Boston once told me that he remembered her as a fascinating young widow with a lovely voice. It must have been during her visit to Boston that she met my grandfather Cutler, who straightway fell in love with and married her. When past her sixtieth year she would sometimes sing an old-time duet with my father. She had a great love of good literature. Here is what she told me about the fashions of her youth: We wore our hair short, and creped all over in short curls, which were k
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe (search)
and innocently inquired whether he and Mrs. Smith went sometimes to court. The question amused him. He said to his wife, My dear, Mrs. Howe wishes to know whether you and I go to court. To me he said, No, madam. That is a luxury which I deny myself. I last saw Sydney Smith at an evening party at which, as usual, he was surrounded by friends. A very amiable young American was present, apropos of whom I heard Mr. Smith say:— I think I shall go over to America and settle in Boston. Perkins here says that he'll patronize me. Thomas Carlyle was also one of our earliest visitors. Some time before leaving home, Dr. Howe had received from him a letter expressing his great interest in the story of Laura Bridgman as narrated by Charles Dickens. In this letter he mentioned Laura's childish question, Do horses sit up late? In the course of his conversation he said, laughing heartily: Laura Bridg man, dear child! Her question, Do horses sit up late? Before taking leave of us
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
32. Passion Flowers, Mrs. Howe's first volume of poems, 228, 229; reviewed in Dwight's Journal of Music by Mrs. E. D. Cheney, 436. Passy, Frederic, takes Mrs. Howe to the French Academy, 414; also to the crowning of a rosiere, 415; presents her with a volume of his essays, 416. Paul, Jean, works of, read, 59. Pegli, Samuel Ward dies at, 73. Peirce, Benjamin, a member of the Radical Club, 282. Pellico, Silvio, an Italian patriot, 109. Pentonville prison, visited, 109. Perkins, Col. Thomas H., his recollection of Mrs. Cutler, 35. Persiani, Mlle., an opera singer, 104. Phaedo, Plato's, read by Mrs. Howe, 321. Phillips, Wendell, his prophetic quality of mind recognized, 84; leader of the abolitionists: his birth and education, 154; at anti-slavery meetings, 155-157; an advocate of woman suffrage, 157, 158; his death, 159; compared with Sumner, 175; effect of his presence at the Radical Club, 286; his orthodoxy, 287; speaks at the meeting to help the Cretan in