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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)
ed for the purpose of carrying on --she 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, the
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 4:
241 Beacon Street
: the New Orleans Exposition 1883-1885; aet. 64-66 (search)
3. To New Bedford, for the Suffrage meeting; trains did not connect at Myricks, where, after some delay and negotiation, I with difficulty persuaded the conductor of a freight train to take me to New Bedford in his caboose. This saved me time enough to go to the Delano Mansion, restore my strength with food, and put on my cap and ruche. The Delanos were very kind. I read my Congress paper on Benefits of Suffrage to Women. November 23. To Louisburg Square to my old friend's funeral [Hamilton Wilde].... Around and before me were the friends and associates of the golden time in which his delightful humor and bonhomie so often helped me in charades and other high times. It was ghostly — there were Lizzie Homans and Jerry Abbott, who took part with him and William Hunt in the wonderful charade in which the two artists rode a tilt with theatre hobbies. The gray heads which I had once seen black, brown, or blond, heightened the effect of the picture. It was indeed a sic transit. I sa