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Rockledge (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
was so prostrated by it that grave anxiety was felt for a time as to his own recovery. He was unable to be present at the funeral services, which were held at Rockledge, and conducted by the Rev. Samuel May, assisted by Wendell Phillips, Lucy Stone, and the Rev. George Putnam. Mr. Phillips's tribute was an exquisite portrayal oft a beautiful face he has! It's really wonderful. and Thomas Constable among them, and Alfred July 24, 1877. Webb, A son of Richard D. Webb. He had visited Rockledge in 1872. who came from Dublin for the purpose. These social reunions, with frequent drives and excursions in the neighborhood, made the week pass all too quicklolume of this biography. Sept. 4, 1877. Now that our transatlantic tour has been consummated, he wrote to his daughter, on returning to Ms. Sept. 10, 1877. Rockledge, it seems almost like a delicious dream; and yet, from beginning to end, nothing could be more realistic. We did not pass an idle hour, whether in England, Scot
Glastonbury (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
ourse—among them, Henry Vincent, Madame Emilie Ashurst Venturi, Mrs. Priscilla Bright McLaren, Mrs. Fawcett, Miss Helen Taylor, Thomas Hughes, Professor James Bryce, Justin McCarthy, and George J. Holyoake. But he was glad at last to leave the great metropolis for the rural quiet and beauty of Somersetshire, whither he now went to visit Mr. Bright's daughter, Mrs. Helen Bright Clark, and her husband. With them he spent a delightful Sunday in William S. Clark. their home at Street, near Glastonbury and its ruined July 1. Abbey. Thence he drove with them by way of Wells July 2. (whose cathedral, with its Bishop's Garden and ancient moat and wall, he greatly admired) and Cheddar to Sidcot, where he enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. Margaret A. Tanner, a staunch supporter of Mrs. Butler, in her beautiful home overlooking the Bristol Channel and Welsh hills. In Bristol he was to have been the guest of the well-known philanthropist, Miss Mary Carpenter, but her letter making the arrang
St. Asaph (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
ial Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hills. cordiality. Little leisure remained for him in the few days that now intervened before his departure for America. He spent a night at Worsley, and two days at Lymm (near Aug. 15. Warrington), where a banquet was tendered him by his old friend, Aug. 17. William Robson. At Chester he saw the antiquities of the town under the delightful guidance of Rev. Charles Aug. 18. Wicksteed, with whom he spent more time the following day Aug. 19. at his home in St. Asaph, Wales. This was the region where Mrs. Hemans had lived, and it inspired in Mr. Garrison lively reminiscences of his youthful ardor and extravagant admiration for the poetess. He took the fine railroad ride along the north coast of Wales to Bangor Aug. 20. and Llanberis, to see the bridges over the Menai Straits, and Conway and Carnarvon Castles, and, after a farewell visit to Manchester, he hastened to spend his last two days Aug. 21-23. among his Liverpool friends. Mrs. Butler convened
Sheffield (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
house of his host, Mr. Robert F. Martineau, and July 7. responded to an address presented to him on the occasion by the Committee of the Repeal Associations. The Midland Electoral Union for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. The address and a subsequent written reply of Mr. Garrison's were published in the (London) Shield of Sept. 8, and (Boston) Woman's Journal of Nov. 17, 1877. He also visited the grave of Harriet Martineau, in one of the July 8. Birmingham cemeteries. At Sheffield he paused only long enough for an hours call on his venerable friend, July 9. Mrs. Rawson, at Wincobank Hall, after an interval of Ante, 2.395. thirty-one years since his previous visit to her, and then hastened to Leeds to spend a week with Mr. and Mrs. July 9-15. Joseph Lupton, and to be near George Thompson; for, in the ten years since they had last met, Mr. Thompson had taken up his residence in Leeds, and was now hopelessly shattered in health and barely able to walk. The meeting
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
and many tributes from friends, in a small volume for private presentation. Helen Eliza Garrison. A Memorial. 1876. While writing it, my head and heart were heavily oppressed, and in my enfeebled condition the task was as laborious as it was delicate. I hope it will not seem to indicate anything of mental weakness to those into whose hands it will be put (Ms. March 30, 1876, W. L. G. to W. P. G.). The volume contains an excellent photograph of Mrs. Garrison. In June he visited Pennsylvania, and attended, for the 1876. last time, the Progressive Friends' Meetings at Longwood, with his usual active participation. He subsequently devoted several days to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, but the resultant fatigue crippled him for weeks, and the summer, as a whole, was a quiet and sober one for him. What a solitude is the house! he wrote to his absent daughter, and his letters repeatedly reflected his sense of loneliness. Nevertheless, he wrote and read much, recei
Ripon, Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin (Wisconsin, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
blic and personal matters. Mr. Garrison, whose heart was wrung by his sadly altered appearance, devoted as many hours as possible to him each day during his stay. When the final parting came, July 15. Mr. Thompson sobbed aloud as he gave his brother beloved the last fervent embrace, and watched his retreating form till it was out of sight. This was the only sorrowful experience in Mr. Garrison's English visit. From Leeds he made delightful excursions to Bolton Abbey and Wharfedale, to Ripon July 10. and Fountains Abbey, and to Scarborough, where he saw July 13, 1877. a typical English watering-place, and was handsomely entertained by Sir Harcourt Johnstone, who gave a supper July 16. in his honor at the Royal Hotel. About fifty prominent residents of the town were present, and Mr. Garrison spoke with much felicity on the marked progress made in the various reformatory movements in England since his previous visit. After touching upon temperance, education, the extension o
Dundee (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
embraced the sail up the coast to Aug. 2. Oban and Ballachulish, the stage-ride through the Pass of Glencoe, a sail and row on Loch Lomond at sunset, and Aug. 3. Loch Katrine, the Trosachs and Callander as the return Aug. 4. route to Edinburgh. One more excursion was made—to Newport, Mr. Garrison was entertained at Newport by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parker, who gave a reception in his honor. The newly completed, but illfated, Tay Bridge greatly excited his wonder and admiration. opposite Dundee—before the concluding visit Aug. 7-10. at Huntly Lodge, whose hospitable door never opened more reluctantly for a departing guest. A brief tour through the English Lake District followed, the region Aug. 10-15, 1877. being new to Mr. Garrison, who thoroughly appreciated its beauty, and enjoyed rowing, successively, on the placid waters of Derwentwater, Windermere, and Ullswater. At Ambleside he visited The Knoll, Harriet Martineau's Aug. 12. late home, and rejoiced to find the house oc
Liverpool (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
New York on the 23d of May, F. J. G. in the steamer Algeria, they arrived in Liverpool on the 3d of June, in good condition for the twelve weeks of delightful travey. Evesham. The first person whom Mr. Garrison sought, on his arrival in Liverpool, was Mrs. Josephine E. Butler, whom he had wished to meet ever since her inaut she subsequently wrote him: Josephine E. Butler to W. L. Garrison. Liverpool, June 10, 1877. Ms. I wished one more word in reply to your most kind and a moment, though still, and more widely, beholding all that strife. From Liverpool, where he passed pleasant hours with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Crosfield. his friends to Manchester, he hastened to spend his last two days Aug. 21-23. among his Liverpool friends. Mrs. Butler convened a special meeting of adherents at her house toend May he wrote: From the time of our departure from New York to our leaving Liverpool, everything went auspiciously with us. Our good angels seemed to be ever at o
Clifton (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
rs. Margaret A. Tanner, a staunch supporter of Mrs. Butler, in her beautiful home overlooking the Bristol Channel and Welsh hills. In Bristol he was to have been the guest of the well-known philanthropist, Miss Mary Carpenter, but her letter making the arrangements for his coming had reached June 14. him at Oxford simultaneously with the public June 16. announcement of her sudden death the very night after she had written to him. His two days in that neighborhood were July 3-5. spent at Clifton with Miss Mary A. Estlin, The daughter of his old friend, Dr. J. B. Estlin, and one of the most steadfast of the English supporters of the American abolitionists. Miss Estlin had visited the United States in 1868, in company with Richard D. Webb and his daughter. who was unwearied in her attentions to him and his companion. With her they visited Tintern Abbey and the lovely valley July 5. of the Wye, which they saw under peculiarly favorable conditions of weather and sky. At Evesham,
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
in St. Asaph, Wales. This was the region where Mrs. Hemans had lived, and it inspired in Mr. Garrison lively reminiscences of his youthful ardor and extravagant admiration for the poetess. He took the fine railroad ride along the north coast of Wales to Bangor Aug. 20. and Llanberis, to see the bridges over the Menai Straits, and Conway and Carnarvon Castles, and, after a farewell visit to Manchester, he hastened to spend his last two days Aug. 21-23. among his Liverpool friends. Mrs. Butled, he wrote to his daughter, on returning to Ms. Sept. 10, 1877. Rockledge, it seems almost like a delicious dream; and yet, from beginning to end, nothing could be more realistic. We did not pass an idle hour, whether in England, Scotland, or Wales, but were busily engaged either in sightseeing or receiving or making calls, or participating in social parties drawn together to give us a most cordial reception. . . . Nothing could exceed the courtesies and kindnesses showered upon us by our m
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