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very night of his arrival in Berlin, and was only released by the intervention of our government, after a tedious imprisonment au secret. He was then sent with a military escort to the confines of Prussia with the warning to return no more.
Thirteen years had elapsed since these events took place.
Dr. Howe had meantime acquired a world-wide reputation as a philanthropist.
The Poles had long been subdued, and Europe seemed to be free from all revolutionary threatenings.
Through the intervention of Chevalier Bunsen, who was then Prussian ambassador at the Court of St. James, Dr. Howe applied for permission to revisit the kingdom of Prussia, but this was refused him. Some years after this time, Dr. Howe received from the Prussian government a gold medal in acknowledgment of his services to the blind.
On weighing it, he found that the value of the gold was equal to the amount of money which he had been required to pay for his board in the prison at Berlin.
In spite of the prohibition, we managed to see something of the Rhine, and journeyed through Switzerland and the Austrian Tyrol to Vienna, where we remained for some weeks.
We here made the acquaintance of Madame von Walther and her daughter Theresa, afterward known as Madame Pulszky, the wife of one of Louis Kossuth's most valued friends.
Houghton and Mifflin Company, 1899.
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