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She was as merry as she was skillful, and the two made much fun together.
Even when the patient could not speak, she could twinkle.
As strength gradually returned, the ministrations of Wollapuk became positively scenes of revelry; and the anxious guardian below, warding off would-be interviewers or suppliants, might be embarrassed to hear peals of laughter ringing down the stair.
Early in May she has “young J. W. Hurlburt to dine; a pleasant young playwright, grandson to General Hurlburt of the Civil War....”
“I had lent my play of ‘Hippolytus’ to young Hurlburt to read.
He brought it back yesterday with so much praise of parts of it as to revive the pang which I felt when, Charlotte Cushman and Edwin Booth having promised to fill the principal parts, the manager's wife suddenly refused to fill her part, and the whole fell through.
This with much other of my best literary work has remained a dead letter on my own shelves.
I am glad as well as sad to feel that it deserved better treatment.”
She had a wheel-chair, and on pleasant days it was her delight to be wheeled through the Public Garden, now in full May beauty, to see the flowers and the children.
She was able to attend several meetings, and to write several papers.
“May 18. Have read part of the recital of Anna Ticknor's achievement in her society to encourage studies at home.
Her work is really heroic.
I wish that I had better understood it. Still I did admire it a great deal, but had little idea of the great benevolence and ”
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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