I. INTRODUCTORY The Romance of Philanthropy Causes the 1
First Meeting of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia
Ward.—Letter of Congratulation from the Poet
Longfellow.—The “Chevalier.”—The Wedding-tour in
Europe.—The Eldest Daughter, Julia Romana, Is Born in
Rome. Why She Was “Mary” and I Was “Martha.”
II. STORIES TOLD US BY OUR PARENTS The Alarming Three Bears 4
of the Howe Coat-of-arms.—Brutality at the Old Boston
Latin School.—Boyish Mischief.—Papa’s
Church.—Grandmother Cutler Rebukes the Biographer of
Washington and Marion.—Grandfather Ward, His
Liberality and His Stern Calvinism.
III. MEMORIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD The Perkins Institution for 12
the Blind.—South Boston in the ’Fifties and ’Sixties.
Migratory Habits of the Howe Family.—“Cliff House” at
Newport.—George William Curtis and the Howe
Children.—A Children’s Party at the Longfellow
Mansion.—Professor “Stubby” Child Plays with Us in
the Hay.
IV. OUR EARLY LITERARY ACTIVITIES The Howe Children Invent 30
a “Patagonian Language,” Edit a Newspaper _The
Listener_, Write Plays and Songs. They Give “Parlor
Concerts” and Take Part in Tableaux and Private
Theatricals.—William Story and Thackeray.
V. UNDER THE SHADOW OF BYRON’S HELMET Echoes of the Greek 40
Revolution.—The Enchanted Garden.—“Green Peace” an
International Resort.—Political Exiles. Teach Us
Foreign Languages and the Love of Freedom.—Louis
Kossuth.
VI. NOTED VISITORS AT “GREEN PEACE” Charles Sumner and His 50
Brother.—Edwin P. Whipple—James T. Fields.—Doctor
Kane.—Rev. Thomas Starr King.—Prof. Cornelius C.
Felton.—Arthur Hugh Clough.—Frederika Bremer.—Laura
Bridgman.
VII. YOUNG AMERICA GOES TO SCHOOL Our Schools and 68
Teachers.—The South Boston Omnibus.—A Grand School
Sleigh-ride.—Memories of the Adams Family.—A Picnic
on the State House Steps.
VIII. THE AGASSIZES AND THEIR SCHOOL Professor and Mrs. Louis 79
Agassiz.—Prof. Alexander Agassiz.—Papanti’s
Dancing-school.—I Invent Fancy Dances.—We Swim,
Skate, and Ride on Horseback.—Boston’s Purple-glass
Windows.
IX. EDWIN BOOTH AND CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN Why They Did Not Act 92
My Mother’s Play, “Hippolytus.”—A Bundle of Old
Playbills.—Letters from Edwin and Mary Booth.—Mrs.
Frances Ann Kemble.—Statue of Horace Mann.—My Father
Introduces Written Examinations into the Public
Schools, amid Angry Protests from the Masters.
X. LAWTON’S VALLEY, OUR SUMMER HOME The Beautiful 110
Valley.—The Crawford Children.—“Yeller’s
Day.”—“Vaucluse” and the Hazards.—The Midshipmen
Visit Us.—Dances on Board the Frigate
_Constitution_.—Parties in the Valley.—George
Bancroft.—A Party at His House.—Rev. Charles T.
Brooks.
XI. ANTI-SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR MEMORIES Deep Interest of My 128
Parents in the Anti-Slavery Movement and in the Civil
War.—We Learn the Evil of Compromise.—A Trip to
Kansas.—Manners on the Mississippi Steamboats.—Fort
Sumter Is Attacked.—Mother’s Poems of the
War.—Father’s Work on the Sanitary Commission.—How
the Flag Was Treated at Newport.—We Ride in the “Jeff
Davis.” Knitting and Scraping
Lint.—Sewing-circles.—Fairs for the Army and the
Navy.—“The Boatswain’s Whistle.”—Visiting the Camp at
Readville.—Governor N. P. Banks.—Governor John A.
Andrew.—Parade of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
XII. WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS The Ancient and Honorable 141
Artillery.—Death of Little Sammy.—Assassination of
Lincoln.—My Father Serves on the Freedmen’s
Commission.
XIII. THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR How We 155
Dressed and Danced in the ’Sixties.—War Prices.—Mrs.
Jared Sparks.—Visit of the Russian Fleet.—The Brain
Club.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.—Ralph Waldo
Emerson.—William R. Alger.—William M. Hunt.—“Mamma’s
Owls,” William and Henry James.—A Clever Group of
Society Women.—A Historic Nose-pulling.
XIV. OUR LABORS IN BEHALF OF CRETE Removal to Boylston 180
Place.—W. D. Howells.—Marion Crawford as a Boy.—The
Romance of a Fire.—The Cretan Insurrection.—Sisters
Julia and Laura Accompany Our Parents to Greece.—A
Grim Passenger.—A Price Is Set on My Father’s
Head.—Our Cretan Sewing-Circle and
Concert.—Over-modest Amateurs.—The Sumner Bronzes.
XV. MARRIED LIFE IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY Nursery 205
Days.—The Family of a New Jersey Commuter.—Sorrows of
the Country Housekeeper.—Death of My Father.—A
Memorial Meeting.—The Story of Sister Constance.—A
Division of Heirlooms.
XVI. RECONSTRUCTING A NEW JERSEY VILLAGE The Mutual 220
Admiration Society of Scotch Plains.—My Husband
Becomes a Leader in Local Politics and
Activities.—The Passing of the Mossbacks.—How We
Gained a Public Library, a New School-house and a New
Truck-house.—An Overseer of the Poor with Peculiar
Methods.
XVII. “I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND” Following the Family 233
Tradition.—_Demorest’s_ and “Jennie June.”—Marion
Crawford and the Little Green Parlor.—Town and
Country Club.—Charles Dudley Warner.—How I Came to
Write about Manners.—Life of Laura Bridgman.—Helen
Keller at the Perkins Institution. A Luncheon at
“Boothden,” the Home of Edwin Booth.—Joseph Jefferson
and William Warren.
XVIII. OUR CHILDREN AT HOME, SCHOOL, AND COLLEGE An Attic 250
Fairy.—Our Child Artist Grinds Her Own
Paints.—Scholarships and Athletics at Harvard
University.—Our Youngest Wins an “H.”—American Girls’
Club in Paris.—Caroline’s Pictures Exhibited in the
New Salon.
XIX. THE CLUB AND SUFFRAGE MOVEMENTS Enthusiasm of the 258
Pioneer Clubwomen.—Early Conventions of the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs.—Work as President of New
Jersey Woman Suffrage Association.—We Visit the
Legislature.—Campaign for School Suffrage.—Formation
of New Leagues.—Lucy Stone and Her Baby’s
Cradle.—Rev. Samuel Smith, Author of “America.”
XX. JOYS AND SORROWS OF THE LECTURER The Treatment of 276
“Talent”—Visits to New England and to the West.—My
Mother’s Seventieth Birthday.—The papeterie
Club.—Elizabeth Stewart Phelps.—Thomas Nelson Page.
XXI. DARBY AND JOAN ON THEIR TRAVELS A Cathedral 286
Pilgrimage.—Visit to a French Country House.—Madame
Blanc.—Cathedrals of Rheims, Chartres, Rouen,
Beauvais, Amiens.—English Hospitality.—Visit to
Florence Nightingale.
XXII. “WANDER-YEARS” Michael Anagnos, His Romantic Yet 308
Practical Career.—Death of My Husband.—Return to New
York.—My Daughter’s Exhibitions.—High Bridge, a
Quaint Old Jersey Town.—Leader Twelfth Assembly
District of Manhattan.—Suffrage-worker at Newport,
Rhode Island.—The Delights of Canvassing and
Out-of-door Speaking.
XXIII. UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION My Mother’s 332
Beautiful Old Age.—How It Feels to be an
Ancestor.—Grandmotherhood in the Twentieth
Century.—Keeping Alive the Sacred Fires of Noble
Tradition.—Handing on the Lighted Torch.
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