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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 10: the wider outlookv1865; aet. 46 (search)
l. Spent the afternoon in getting up my costumes for the Charade. The word was Au-thor-ship.... Authorship was expressed by my appearing as a great composer, Jerry Abbott performing my Oratorio — a very comical thing, indeed. The whole was a success. No one who saw the Oratorio can forget it. Mr. Abbott, our neighbor in ChesMr. Abbott, our neighbor in Chestnut Street, was a comedian who would have adorned any stage. The book of the Oratorio was a simple rhyme of Boston authorship. Abigail Lord, Of her own accord, Went down to see her sister, When Jason Lee, As brisk as a flea, He hopped right up and kissed her. With these words, an umbrella, and a chair held before him like a violoncello, Mr. Abbott gave a truly Handelian performance. Fugue and counterpoint, first violin and bass tuba, solo and full chorus, all were rendered with a verve and spirit which sent the audience into convulsions of laughter.--This was one of the carryings-on of the Brain Club. After another such occasion our mother writ
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 4:
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: the New Orleans Exposition 1883-1885; aet. 64-66 (search)
d me time enough to go to the Delano Mansion, restore my strength with food, and put on my cap and ruche. The Delanos were very kind. I read my Congress paper on Benefits of Suffrage to Women. November 23. To Louisburg Square to my old friend's funeral [Hamilton Wilde].... Around and before me were the friends and associates of the golden time in which his delightful humor and bonhomie so often helped me in charades and other high times. It was ghostly — there were Lizzie Homans and Jerry Abbott, who took part with him and William Hunt in the wonderful charade in which the two artists rode a tilt with theatre hobbies. The gray heads which I had once seen black, brown, or blond, heightened the effect of the picture. It was indeed a sic transit. I said to Charles Perkins--For some of us, it is the dressing bell Oh! this mystery! So intense, so immense a fact and force as human life, tapering to this little point of a final leave-taking and brief remembrance! Now came the New
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
Index Abbott, J., I, 214, 215; II, 99. Abdin Palace, II, 35, 36. Abdul Hamid II, II, 42. Abdul Hassan, mosque of, II, 36. Aberdeen, Countess of, II, 165, 166. Aberdeen, J. C. H. Gordon, Earl of, II, 165. Abolitionists, I, 177, 305; II, 171. Academy of Fine Arts, French, II, 23. Acroceraunian Mountains, I, 272. Acropolis, II, 43. Adamowski, Timothee, II, 55, 58. Adams, Charles Follen, II, 270, 273; verse by, II, 335. Adams, Mrs. C. F., I, 266. Adams, John, I, 4. Adams, John Quincy, II, 312. Adams, Nehemiah, I, 168. Advertiser, Boston, II, 195, 222. Aegina, I, 73. Aeschylus, II, 130, 282, 348, 372. Agassiz, Alexander, II, 50. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, I, 124, 345, 361; II, 228, 287, 292. Agassiz, Louis, I, 124, 151, 251, 345; II, 150, 158. Aide, Hamilton, II, 251. Airlie, Lady, II, 254. Alabama, II, 108. Albania, I, 272. Albany, I, 342. Albert of Savoy, II, 303. Albert Victor, II, 9. Albinola, Sig