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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 9: no. 13
Chestnut Street
, Boston 1864; aet. 45 (search)
ought and motive has been of great use to me, but I think that I have been able to give them an extended application and some practical illustrations which did not lie within his scope. The next day she writes: Dreamed of dearest Sammy. Thought that he was in the bed, and that I was trying to nurse him in the dark as I have so often done. I thought that when his little lips had found my breast, something said in my ear, My life's life -the glory of the world. Quoting from my lines on Mary Booth. This woke me with a sudden impression, Thus Nature remembers. She decided this spring to read some of her essays in Washington. There were various difficulties in the way, and she was uncertain of the outcome of the enterprise. She writes:-- I leave Bordentown [the home of her sister Annie] with a resolute, not a sanguine heart. I have no one to stand for me there, Sumner against me, Channing almost unknown to me, everyone else indifferent. I go in obedience to a deep and stron
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)
Montgomery, I, 238. Blanc, Louis, II, 24. Blind, work for the, I, 73; II, 347, see also Perkins Institution and Kindergarten. Bloomsbury, II, 4, 7. Boatswain's Whistle, I, 210, 211. Boer War, II, 272. Bologna, II, 27. Bonaparte, Joseph, I, 147, 328. Bond Street, I, 22. Bonheur, Rosa, II, 20. Boocock, Mr., I, 43, 44. Booth, Charles, II, 166. Booth, Edwin, I, 172, 177, 203-05, 219, 327; II, 69, 70, 97, 183, 198, 345. Booth, J. Wilkes, I, 220, 221. Booth, Mary, I, 200, 204. Boppart, I, 133. Boston, I, 67, 70, 74, 75, 102-04, 111, 123, 126, 127, 129, 130, 132, 156, 176, 203, 207, 249, 261, 294; II, 60, 87, 92, 130, 168, 171, 181, 363. Boston Armenian Relief Committee, II, 189. Boston Conservatory of Music, II, 181, 217. Boston Museum, I, 166; II, 158. Boston Symphony Orchestra, II, 373. Boston Theatre, I, 203, 210, 350; II, 210. Bostwick, Mr., II, 225. Bottomore, Billy, I, 53, 54. Bourbon dynasty, I, 310. Bowditc
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 11: anti-slavery attitude: literary work: trip to Cuba (search)
t her down gently at the iron door! Eyes look on that loved image for the last: Now cover it in earth,—her earth no more. These lines recall to me the scene of Mary Booth's funeral, which took place in wintry weather, the service being held at the chapel in Mount Auburn. Hers was a most pathetic figure as she lay, serene and lovn of remarkable beauty, to be sadly known at a later date as Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln and the victim of his own crime. Henry Ward Beecher, meeting Mary Booth one day at dinner at my house, was so much impressed with her peculiar charm that, on the occasion of her death, he wrote a very sympathetic letter to Mr. BoothMr. Booth, and became thenceforth one of his most esteemed friends. The years between 1850 and 1857, eventful as they were, appear to me almost a period of play when compared with the time of trial which was to follow. It might have been likened to the tuning of instruments before some great musical solemnity. The theme was already sug
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
r, Miss, Catherine, her Cook Book, 215. Beecher, Henry Ward, his letter on Mary Booth's death, 242; advocates woman's suffrage, 378. Beethoven, symphonies of, i. Edwin (Mary Devlin), her marriage and death, 242, 242. Booth, Wilkes, at Mary Booth's funeral, 242. Boppard, water-cure at, 189. Bordentown, N. J., residen Desmoulins, M. Benoit C., his kindness to Mrs. Howe, 413. Devlin, Mary. See Booth, Mrs. Edwin. Dexter, Franklin, a friend of Allston, 429. Dial, The, Margarethe Town and Country Club, 406. Hippolytus, Mrs. Howe's drama of, proposed by Booth, 237; ultimately declined, 240. Hoar, Hon., George Frisbie, a friend of womaut the Cuban trip, 236; writes for the New York Tribune, 236, 237; requested by Booth to write a play, 237; disappointed at its nonappearance, 240; attends James Freintroduction to her son, 412. Parsons, Thomas W., his poem on the death of Mary Booth, 241; suggests a poem for Mrs. Howe's Sunday meetings in London, 332. Pass