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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 8: first years in Boston (search)
has destroyed so many of my people has fixed her claws here, pointing to his chest. The progress of the fatal disease was slow but sure. He had agreed with Dr. Howe that they should visit South America together in 1860, when he should have attained his fiftieth year. Alas! in place of that adventurous voyage and journey, a sad exodus to the West Indies and thence to Europe was appointed, an exile from which he never returned. Many years after this time I visited the public cemetery in Florence, and stood before the simple granite cross which marks the resting-place of this great apostle of freedom. I found it adorned with plants and vines which had evidently been brought from his native land. A dear friend of his, Mrs. Sarah Shaw Russell, had said to me of this spot, It looks like a piece of New England. And I thought how this piece of New England belonged to the world. One of the most imposing figures in my gallery of remembrance is that of Charles Sumner, senator and mart
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 9: second visit to Europe (search)
the Nightingale family, at their summer residence in Derbyshire. Florence Nightingale had been traveling in Egypt, and was still abroad. Her sister, Parthenope, read us some of her letters, which, as may be imagined, were full of interest. Florence and her companions, Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge, had made some stay in Rome, on their way to Egypt. Margaret Fuller called one day at their lodgings. Florence herself opened the door, and said to the visitor, Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge are not at hFlorence herself opened the door, and said to the visitor, Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge are not at home. Margaret replied, My visit is intended for Miss Florence Nightingale; and she was admitted to a tete-à--tete of which one would be glad to know something. It was during this visit that I learned the sad news of Margaret's shipwreck and death. Dr. Howe, with all his energy of body and of mind, was somewhat of a valetudinarian. The traces of a severe malarial fever, contracted by him in the Greek campaign of his youth, went with him through life. He was subject to frightful headaches,