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Zangwill, Israel, II, 331.

Zola, Emile, II, 241.

Zuni chiefs, II, 74, 75.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Born 1756, died 1832. He graduated in 1771 from Rhode Island College (now Brown University) with distinguished honors.

[2] Granddaughter of Simon Ray, one of the original owners of the island. He was "pressed in a cheese-press" on account of his religious opinions.

[3] See Horry and Weems, Life of Marion. General Horry was a most zealous and devoted friend; as a biographer his accuracy is questionable, his picturesqueness never.

[4] We have not found the date of his death, but Horry gives the principal features of his will as he got them from the family. He calls Judith Marion "Louisa," but that is his picturesque way. She may have been "Judith Louisa"! Women's names were not of much consequence in those days.

"After having, in the good old way, bequeathed 'his soul to God who gave it,' and 'his body to the earth out of which it was taken,' he proceeds:—

"'In the first place, as to debts, thank God, I owe none, and therefore shall give my executors but little trouble on that score.

"'Secondly,—As to the poor, I have always treated them as my brethren. My dear family will, I know, follow my example.

"'Thirdly,—As to the wealth with which God has been pleased to bless me and my dear Louisa and children, lovingly have we labored together for it—lovingly we have enjoyed it—and now, with a glad and grateful heart do I leave it among them.

"'I give my beloved Louisa all my ready money—that she may never be alarmed at a sudden call.

"'I give her all my fat calves and lambs, my pigs and poultry—that she may always keep a good table.

"'I give her my new carriage and horses—that she may visit her friends in comfort.

"'I give her my family Bible—that she may live above the ill-tempers and sorrows of life.

"'I give my son Peter a hornbook—for I am afraid he will always be a dunce.'"

General Horry goes on to say that Peter was so stunned by this squib that he "instantly quit his raccoon hunting by night and betook himself to reading, and soon became a very sensible and charming young man."

[5] On first coming to this country, Johannes Demesmaker settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. Later he moved to Boston, where he became known as Dr. John Cutler; married Mary Cowell, of Boston, and served as surgeon in King Philip's War.

[6] Reminiscences, p. 4.

[7] Reminiscences, p. 4.

[8] Reminiscences, p. 8.

[9] In later life she added to these the works of Spinoza, and of Theodore Parker.

[10] Reminiscences, p. 43.

[11] Reminiscences, p. 65.

[12] Longfellow had lent her "Beowulf."

[13] The Late Samuel Ward, by Mr. Charles King.

[14] Reminiscences, p. 53.

[15] This manuscript poem was lost, together with many others of the period, a loss always regretted by our mother.

[16] George S. Hillard.

[17] Longfellow.

[18] Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe.

[19] Memoir of Dr. Samuel G. Howe, by Julia Ward Howe.

[20] Afterward Mrs. Charles H. Dorr. This lady was of no kin to them. She had been betrothed to their brother Henry, and was the lifelong friend of all three sisters.

[21] William Wadsworth, of Geneseo.

[22] Edward Everett was at that time American Minister to England.

[23] S. G. H. to Charles Sumner.

[24] Louisa Ward married Thomas Crawford in 1844, and lived thereafter in Rome.

[25] Before the marriage of the latter to Adolphe Mailliard.

[26] Breakfast.

[27] The nurserymaid.

[28] Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis.

[29] She had had a severe attack of scarlet fever during the winter.

[30] The Five of Clubs. See ante.

[31] James K. Polk.

[32] Female Poets of America.

[33] Formerly part of the Via Sistina.

[34] "The Hero." See Whittier's Poems.

[35] The Commonwealth was a daily newspaper published in the Anti-Slavery interest. Dr. Howe was one of its organizers, and for some time its editor-in-chief. She says, "Its immediate object was to reach the body politic which distrusted rhetoric and oratory, but which sooner or later gives heed to dispassionate argument and the advocacy of plain issues." She helped the Doctor in his editorial work, and enjoyed it greatly, writing literary and critical articles, while he furnished the political part.

[36] Printed in Words for the Hour, 1857.

[37] A German scholar, at this time an habitue of the house.

[38] Of Wilmington, Delaware.

[39] Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe.

[40] Near Newport, of which it is really a suburb.

[41] George William Curtis.

[42] Thomas Gold Appleton.

[43] Vaucluse, at Portsmouth.

[44] In consequence of the assault upon him in the Senate Chamber by Preston Brooks of South Carolina.

[45] This Fair was got up by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop for the benefit of the poor.

[46] Her pet name for Theodore Parker. Vide Dante's Inferno.

[47] The child's faithful nurse.

[48] "Our Orders."

[49] Miss Mary Paddock, our father's devoted amanuensis: one of the earliest and best-loved teachers at the Perkins Institution; often our mother's good helper; the faithful and lifelong friend of us all.

[50] "Hamlet at the Boston," Later Lyrics, 1866.

[51] To Mary Devlin, an actress of great charm.

[52] Lyrical Ventures, by Samuel Ward.

[53] The mother of Charles Sumner.

[54] Dr. Howe raised the money for this statue.

[55] Mrs. Francis and Mrs. McAllister.

[56] No. 19.

[57] Sister of James Freeman Clarke. An artist of some note and a beloved friend of our mother.

[58] Margaret Foley, the sculptor.

[59] The widow of her uncle, William G. Ward.

[60] Andrew Johnson.

[61] Dr. Francis Lieber, the eminent German-American publicist.

[62] Mr. Howells, in his Literary Boston Thirty Years Ago, thus speaks of her (1895): "I should not be just to a vivid phase if I failed to speak of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and the impulse of reform which she personified. I did not sympathize with this then so much as I do now, but I could appreciate it on the intellectual side. Once, many years later, I heard Mrs. Howe speak in public, and it seemed to me that she made one of the best speeches I had ever heard. It gave me for the first time a notion of what women might do in that sort if they entered public life; but when we met in those earlier days I was interested in her as perhaps our chief poetess. I believe she did not care to speak much of literature; she was alert for other meanings in life, and I remember how she once brought to book a youthful matron who had perhaps unduly lamented the hardships of housekeeping, with the sharp demand, 'Child, where is your religion?' After the many years of an acquaintance which had not nearly so many meetings as years, it was pleasant to find her, not long ago, as strenuous as ever for the faith or work, and as eager to aid Stepniak as John Brown. In her beautiful old age she survives a certain literary impulse of Boston, but a still higher impulse of Boston she will not survive, for that will last while the city endures."

[63] Count Alberto Maggi, an Italian litterateur.

[64] At the Lexington Lyceum for the Monument Fund.

[65] This was evidently a meeting of the "Brain Club."