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The existence of these grandchildren lay then in the problematic future.
I was requested to leave my poem in the hands of the committee for publication in a volume which would contain the other tributes of the evening.
Dr. Holmes told me that he had declined to do this, and said in explanation, ‘I want my honorarium from the “Atlantic monthly.”
’ We returned to Boston twenty-four hours later, by night train.
Eschewing the indulgence of the sleeper, we talked through the dark hours.
The Doctor gave me the nickname of ‘Madame Comment’ (Mrs. Howe), and I told him that he was the most perfect of traveling companions.
Houghton and Mifflin Company, 1899.
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