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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 209 1 Browse Search
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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 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 4 2 Browse Search
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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 3: Newport 1879-1882; aet. 60-63 (search)
orget the disgust expressed in the jeweller's face at this remark. She then outlined the course laid out by the Friends in Council, lectures on astronomy, botany, natural history, all by eminent persons. They would not expect the Club to meet them on their own ground. They would come to that of their hearers, and would unfold to them what they were able to understand. Accordingly, Weir Mitchell discoursed to them on the Poison of Serpents, John La Farge on the South Sea Islands, Alexander Agassiz on Deep-Sea Dredging and the Panama Canal; while Mark Twain and Hans Breitmann made merry, each in his own inimitable fashion. The Town and Country Club had a long and happy career. No matter what heavy work she might have on hand for the summer, no sooner arrived at Newport than our mother called together her Governing Committee and planned out the season's meetings. It may have been for this Club that she wrote her Parlor MacBETHeth, an extravaganza in which she appeared as 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 6: seventy years young 1889-1890; aet. 70-71 (search)
and make them acceptable to your children. Faithfully yours, James Russell Lowell. The Journal thus notes the occasion. My seventieth birthday. A very busy day for all of us.... My head was dressed at eleven. All my children were here, with daughter-and sons-in-law. I had many lovely gifts. The house was like a garden of costly flowers. Breakfast was at 12.30; was in very good style. Guests: General Walker, John S. Dwight, E. E. Hale, Mrs. Jack Gardner, Mmes. Bell, Pratt, and Agassiz. Walker made the first speech at the table, H. M. H. Henry Marion Howe. being toastmaster. Walker seemed to speak very feelingly, calling me the first citizeness of the country; stood silent a little and sat down. Dwight read a delightful poem; Hale left too soon to do anything. H. introduced J. S. D. thus: Sweetness and light, your name is Dwight. While we sat at table, baskets and bouquets of wonderful flowers kept constantly arriving; the sweet granddaughters brought them in, in
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)
Aberdeen, J. C. H. Gordon, Earl of, II, 165. Abolitionists, I, 177, 305; II, 171. Academy of Fine Arts, French, II, 23. Acroceraunian Mountains, I, 272. Acropolis, II, 43. Adamowski, Timothee, II, 55, 58. Adams, Charles Follen, II, 270, 273; verse by, II, 335. Adams, Mrs. C. F., I, 266. Adams, John, I, 4. Adams, John Quincy, II, 312. Adams, Nehemiah, I, 168. Advertiser, Boston, II, 195, 222. Aegina, I, 73. Aeschylus, II, 130, 282, 348, 372. Agassiz, Alexander, II, 50. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, I, 124, 345, 361; II, 228, 287, 292. Agassiz, Louis, I, 124, 151, 251, 345; II, 150, 158. Aide, Hamilton, II, 251. Airlie, Lady, II, 254. Alabama, II, 108. Albania, I, 272. Albany, I, 342. Albert of Savoy, II, 303. Albert Victor, II, 9. Albinola, Sig., I, 94. Alboni, Marietta, I, 87. Alcott, A. Bronson, I, 285, 290; II, 57, 120. Aldrich, Mrs., Richard, II, 367. Aldrich, T. B., I, 244, 262; II, 70, 354, 357, 358