Chapter I: Front Matter

Julia Ward Howe.

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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

REMINISCENCES

1819-1899

BY JULIA WARD HOWE

WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS

[Decorative Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1899

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY JULIA WARD HOWE

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE, CHILDHOOD 1

II. LITERARY NEW YORK 21

III. NEW YORK SOCIETY 29

IV. HOME LIFE: MY FATHER 43

V. MY STUDIES 56

VI. SAMUEL WARD AND THE ASTORS 64

VII. MARRIAGE: TOUR IN EUROPE 81

VIII. FIRST YEARS IN BOSTON 144

IX. SECOND VISIT TO EUROPE 188

X. A CHAPTER ABOUT MYSELF 205

XI. ANTI-SLAVERY ATTITUDE: LITERARY
WORK: TRIP TO CUBA 218

XII. THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES: IN WAR TIME 244

XIII. THE BOSTON RADICAL CLUB: DR. F. H. HEDGE 281

XIV. MEN AND MOVEMENTS IN THE SIXTIES 304

XV. A WOMAN'S PEACE CRUSADE 327

XVI. VISITS TO SANTO DOMINGO 345

XVII. THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 372

XVIII. CERTAIN CLUBS 400

XIX. ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP 410

XX. FRIENDS AND WORTHIES: SOCIAL SUCCESSES 428

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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JULIA WARD HOWE _Frontispiece_
_From a photograph by Hardy, 1897._

SARAH MITCHELL, NIECE OF GENERAL FRANCIS MARION
AND GRANDMOTHER OF MRS. HOWE 4
_From a painting by Waldo and Jewett._

JULIA WARD AND HER BROTHERS, SAMUEL AND HENRY 8
_From a miniature by Anne Hall._

JULIA CUTLER WARD, MOTHER OF MRS. HOWE 12
_From a miniature by Anne Hall._

SAMUEL WARD, FATHER OF MRS. HOWE 46
_From a miniature by Anne Hall._

SAMUEL WARD, JR 68
_From a painting by Baron Vogel._

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 138
_From a photograph._

THE SOUTH BOSTON HOME OF MR. AND MRS. HOWE 152
_From a painting in the possession of M. Anagnos._

WENDELL PHILLIPS, AT THE AGE OF 48 158
_From a photograph lent by Francis J. Garrison, Boston._

THEODORE PARKER 166
_From a photograph by J. J. Hawes._

JULIA WARD HOWE 176
_From a painting (1847) by Joseph Ames._

SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE, M. D. 230
_From a photograph by Black, about 1859._

JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE 246
_From a photograph by the Notman Photographic Company._

JOHN BROWN 254
_From a photograph (about 1857) lent by Francis J.
Garrison, Boston._

JOHN A. ANDREW 262
_From a photograph by Black._

JULIA WARD HOWE 270
_From a photograph by J. J. Hawes, about 1861._

FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE BATTLE HYMN
OF THE REPUBLIC 276
_From the original MS. in the possession of Mrs. E. P.
Whipple, Boston._

RALPH WALDO EMERSON 292
_From a photograph by Black._

FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE, D. D. 302
_From a photograph lent by his daughter, Charlotte A.
Hedge._

SAMUEL GRIDLEY HOWE, M. D. 328
_From a photograph by A. Marshall (1870), in the possession
of the Massachusetts Club._

LUCY STONE 376
_From a photograph by the Notman Photographic Company._

MARIA MITCHELL 386
_From a photograph._

THE NEWPORT HOME OF MR. AND MRS. HOWE 406
_From a photograph by Briskham and Davidson._

THOMAS GOLD APPLETON 432
_From a photograph lent by Mrs. John Murray Forbes._

JULIA ROMANA ANAGNOS 440
_From a photograph._

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