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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)
he paused, and began to twinkle--for the purpose of carrying on! She describes briefly a meeting of the club at 13 Chestnut Street: Entertained my Club with two charades. Pandemon-ium was the first, Catastrophe the second. For Pan I recited some verses of Mrs. Browning's Dead Pan, with the gods she mentions in the background, my own boy as Hermes. For Demon I had a female Faust and a female Satan. Was aided by Fanny Mc-Gregor, Alice Howe, Hamilton Wilde, Charles Carroll, and James C. Davis, with my Flossy, who looked beautifully. The entertainment was voted an entire success. We remember these charades well. The words Aphrodite, dead and driven As thy native foam thou art... call up the vision of Fanny McGregor, white and beau- Julia Ward Howe tiful, lying on a white couch in an attitude of perfect grace. We hear our mother's voice reciting the stately verses. We see her as the female Faust, first bending over her book, then listening entranced to the promises
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 11: no. 19
Boylston place
: later Lyrics --1866; aet. 47 (search)
s essay asserts the distinctness of the Ideal Order and its legitimate supremacy in human processes of thought. I make a great effort to get its points thoroughly in my mind. Go late to the Barnards'. The scientifics arrive very late, Agassiz gets there at 9. I begin to read soon after. The ladies of our party are all there. I feel a certain enthusiasm in my work and subject, but do not communicate it to the audience, which seemed fatigued and cold; all at least but Pierce, Agassiz, and Davis. Had I done well or ill to read it? . . . Some soul may have carried away a seed-grain of thought. August 11.... To Mount Holyoke in the afternoon. The ascent was frightful, the view sublime. In the evening went to read to the insane people at the asylum; had not Later Lyrics, but Passion Flowers. Read from this and recited from the other. Had great pleasure in doing this, albeit under difficulties. Finished second Tribune letter and sent it. Back at the Valley, she plunges once
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)
. Cutler, Louisa, see McAllister. Cutler, Sarah M. H., I, 10, 12, 13, 17, 39, 40, 42; II, 319. Cyclades, I, 272. Cyprus, II, 42. Czerwinsk, II, 12, 13, 14. Dana, R. H., Jr., I, 226. D'Annunzio, II, 285. Dante, Alighieri, I, 174, 330; II, 26, 27, 120, 357. Dantzig, II, 15, 18. Daubigny, C. F., II, 172. Daughters of the American Revolution, I, 179, 194, 351. Davenport, E. L., I, 204. Davidson, Thomas, II, 128. Davidson, Wm., letter of, II, 390. Davis, James C., I, 201, 251. Davis, Jefferson, I, 222. Davis, Mary F., I, 304. Davis, Theodore, II, 251. Dead Sea, II, 38, 39. Declaration of Independence, I, 4. DeKoven, Reginald, II, 195. Deland, Lorin, II, 332, 333. Deland, Margaret, II, 303, 332. Delineator, II, 381. DeLong, G. W., I, 322, 325. Demesmaker, see Cutler, John. Denver, II, 152, 153. Descartes, Rene, II, 397. Desgrange, Mme., II, 240. Detroit, II, 141. Devonshire, Duchess of, II, 8. De