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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 5: travel 1843-1844; aet. 24-25 (search)
been much shut up in personal and family life; was a person rather of antipathies than sympathies. His remarks made no impression. Yet, she added, I always had a sense of relation to the public, but thought the connection would come through writing. Apropos of Mr. Fowler's more religion than morality, she said: Morality is a thing of the will; we may think differently of such matters at different times. What he said may have been true. Then the twinkle came into her eyes: When Mr. William Astor heard of my engagement, he said, Why, Miss Julia, I am surprised! I thought you were too intellectual to marry! Another acquaintance of this autumn was the late Arthur Mills, who was through life one of our parents' most valued friends. He came to America with them; in his honor, during the voyage, Julia composed The Milsiad, scribbling the lines day by day in a little note-book, still carefully preserved in the Mills family. The first and last stanzas give an idea of this poem