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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 8: little Sammy: the Civil War 1859-1863; aet. 40-44 (search)
nt's song, all reveal the deep feeling of her heart; we remember her singing of Left behind (set to her own music, a wild, mournful chant) as something so thrilling that it catches the breath as we think of it. Being again in Washington in the spring of 1863, she visited the Army of the Potomac, in company with the wife of General Francis Barlow, and wrote on her return a sketch of the expedition. She carried a fine Horace, which repeatedly annoyed me by tumbling in the dirt, a volume of Sully's Memoirs, and a little fag end of Spinoza, being his Tractat upon the Old Testament. She saw the working of the Sanitary Commission; saw Fighting Joe Hooker, who looked like the man who can tell nineteen secrets and keep the twentieth, which will be the only one worth knowing ; and William H. Seward, looking singularly like a man who has balanced a chip on the fence, and who congratulates himself upon its remaining there ; saw, too, from the heights above Fredericksburg (within the dange
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 8: divers good causes 1890-1896; aet. 71-77 (search)
we could read these at home. I said, Yes, and we can read the Bible at home, but we like to go to church and hear it read. Finished my screed for this evening and licked my Columbus poem into shape, the dear Lord helping me. To Maud Planfield, N. J., May 16, 1894. My dearest Maud, . . . First place, I had a visit from Laura. We threw the ball daily, and had lunches and punches. We went to hear de Koven's Robin hood, the music of which is strongly reminiscent, and also saw Mounet-Sully's Hamlet, a very wonderful piece of acting. Flossy and I had three days of conventioning in Philadelphia, last week. Flossy's little speech was one of the best at the convention, and was much applauded. I was received on all hands with affectionate goodwill.... There seemed to be, among the Eastern women, a desire to make me president [of the General Federation of Women's Clubs]. This I immediately put out of the question and Mrs. Cheney stood by me, saying that Massachusetts would not se
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)
neur, I, 7, 8. Morse, E. S., II, 169. Morse, William, II, 108. Mosby, John, II, 253. Mothers' Peace Day, I, 318, 319, 345. Mott, Lucretia, I, 285, 304; I, 108. Moulton, Louise C., II, 161, 169, 171, 273. Verse by, 335. Mounet-Sully, Jean, II, 195. Mt. Auburn, I, 183; II, 290, 294. Mt. Holyoke, I, 251. Mozart, W. A., I, 45; II, 351. Mozier, Joseph, I, 271. Mozumdar, II, 87. Munich, I, 278. Murray, Gilbert, II, 361. Murray, Lady, Mary, II, 361. Musi. Success, II, 261. Sue, Eugene, I, 135. Suffrage, equal, I, 362-73; II, 61, 88, 89, 90, 126, 151, 166, 192, 216, 268, 322, 343. Sullivan, Annie (Mrs. Macy), II, 262. Sullivan, Sir, Arthur, II, 9. Sullivan, Richard, II, 64. Sully, Due de, I, 192. Sumner, Mrs., I, 225. Sumner, Albert, I, 151. Sumner, Charles, I, 71, 74-77, 116, 121, 127, 133, 149, 151, 152, 153, 168, 200, 205, 206, 226, 227, 246, 283, 344, 381; II, 108, 128. Letter of, I, 75. Sumner, Mrs., Charles,