THE ART ASSOCIATION OF NEWPORT
When I was asked to write that paper on “Artists’ Life in Rome” for the
Current Topics Club of Newport, I little thought what the consequences
would be! Glad of the opportunity to tell those thoughtful women about
our wonderful years in the Eternal City, I set gaily about my task. Had
I foreseen just what those consequences would be, would I have accepted
the club’s invitation?
Looking back, I now see that between us all we sowed a seed that
afternoon destined to germinate and grow into a living plant, whose
nurture was to become the controlling interest of my life and my
husband’s. For the direct outcome of that innocent talk was the Art
Association of Newport, an institution of which, since its founding, I
have been the secretary and pulling horse, and he has been the power
behind the throne.
In the month of May, 1912, a group of artists living in Newport issued a
circular letter proposing the incorporation of an Art Association, whose
prime object should be the cultivation of artistic endeavor and interest
among the citizens of Newport. The response was instant and cordial. A
month later, the new association was organized with one hundred and
forty-one charter members. Our first home was the old Hunt studio on
Church Street, formerly used by William Morris Hunt, the painter, and by
his brother, Richard Hunt, the architect. In her diary for 1865, my
mother speaks of having given a lecture in the Hunt studio, to help the
fund to send her beloved pastor, Charles Brooks, on a much-needed
vacation to Europe. In this studio Henry James, his brother William, and
John La Farge studied art under William Hunt. When he moved to Boston,
Richard Hunt took over the studio, and here the plans for some of the
famous architect’s noble buildings were drawn. After Mr. Hunt’s death,
the studio passed out of the hands of the family and, when we took it
over, it had fallen from its high estate, having served for some time as
an upholsterer’s workshop. The place had an atmosphere about it, though,
as if some influence of the extraordinary personalities of those two men
of genius still lingered there. Though it was in a rather dilapidated
condition when our artists took possession, they saw great possibilities
in it and bravely set to work to restore it to its original status of an
art center. In the little garden at the back, syringas, lilacs, and
shade-loving flowers were planted. The two spacious ateliers on the
ground floor and the large upper studio were transformed into excellent
exhibition galleries. The paved courtyard, connecting the main building
with the old stable in the rear, soon took on a picturesque air, and
here on warm summer afternoons the artists and their friends gathered
round the tea table and discussed the future of the young institution.
Among those who rallied to our fellowship were several men and women
well acquainted with the history of the old town; with their help I
began to hunt up the art traditions of Newport. These proved
astonishingly interesting to us all, and we spent much time in tracing
out what was to be learned of the earlier artists who had lived here.
Their names are legion, the best known perhaps being Gilbert Stuart,
Edward Malbone, the painter of those exquisite miniatures treasured in
many old American families, and John Smibert, the Edinborough carriage
painter, who came to Newport in the train of Bishop Berkeley and made
the famous portrait of Berkeley and his family at Yale University.
From the beginning, the founders of the new association were filled with
enthusiasm and worked for it early and late, in season and out. It will
be seen from the following extracts from my journal how it grew to fill
an ever larger and larger place in the lives of my husband and myself,
and that it always had a certain breadth of character, from having from
the first been identified with matters of national and international
significance.
January 7, 1913. To the William Sargeant Kendalls’, where we
discussed plans and laid out an excellent programme of work for the
Art Association. We must not abandon this enterprise into which J.
and I have already built so much of our time and energies. As I
work more in these matters of public service, I see that all human
undertakings are merely different uses of the stone from the same
quarry. Institution building is perfectly fascinating--you can
throw all of yourself into it, make it a means of self-expression
and yet get rid of the sense of ego that underlies all mere
personal work. We are to have a course of lectures, I to open it
with a paper on “The Art Traditions of Newport.”
* * * * *
January 31, 1913. J. busy about his Red Cross picture show and sale
for the Balkan Relief Fund at the Art Association. He has shown
great energy and persistence and the artists have rallied
generously, as they always do! He has secured paintings by
twenty-five of the leading Rhode Island painters. Kazanjian, the
Armenian, frames the pictures as his gift. A Greek resident, Mr.
Cascambas, has contributed some of his excellent confectionery for
the tea, and all the Greeks have shown a fine spirit. One tall
fellow said to J., “I have often taken flowers to Dr. Howe’s grave
at Mount Auburn!” I have not been allowed to work at this venture
at all, J. preferring to put it through himself, with the help of
an excellent committee, Doctor Terry, Doctor Brackett, and others.
William Safford Jones issued a stirring call, beginning with the
words:
“Come over into Macedonia and help us!”
* * * * *
February 3, 1913. Opening of J.’s Red Cross exhibition. A terrific
blizzard--a large attendance for such a day. The pictures looked
fine. The first to be sold was Mrs. Kendall’s landscape, bought by
Miss Ellery, perhaps the person who could afford it least of all
who visited the show. Mr. Cantrell read Byron’s “Isles of Greece”,
then Whittier’s “Hero.” Mr. Merrill explained the connection, how
the first poem had aroused the Philhellenes of England and America,
how S. G. H. had gone out to help the Greeks, and how Whittier’s
poem described an incident of which Papa was the hero, in the Greek
campaign. George Merrill also recited a lovely poem in French by
his brother, “La Pluie.” The rain drumming on the roof made it very
real.
* * * * *
March 23, 1913. News of the killing of poor King George of Greece
came two days since. I danced with him more than once at the court
balls in Athens years ago. The murderer seems to have been a crank;
how many such murders there have been, and how near we have been to
some of them. We were in Rome at the time of the murder of King
Umberto; in Madrid when poor Don Carlos of Portugal was killed, and
when the attempt on the life of the King and Queen of Spain was
made on their wedding day. How uncomfortable to be a crowned head!
They are fast becoming real martyrs to the cause of monarchy, as
they must think.
* * * * *
February 14, 1914. I had a wonderful visitation (I cannot use
another word) in the night. Mother was with me, looking in every
way like herself. It was a dream of course, but a more vivid one
than any I remember. We had a good deal of talk. I asked her, “Are
you happy?”
Her answer, in her most energetic and characteristic way, “Very
happy.”
I asked her if she had suffered much, referring to her end. She
said, with the same optimistic cheerfulness: “No, not much.” She
went on to say that she had rather expected to be left to the care
of nurses, “but when I saw my dear Maud’s face”, meaning, as I
thought, that she had been aware of the agony my face must have
expressed. She seemed to be accompanied by a tall silent figure
like Dante. At the end of the interview the side of the house
melted away, and the two figures seemed just wafted from me. A most
comforting and glorified vision! If I could believe such things, I
should believe that her spirit had sought to reach and animate
mine. I am none the less comforted and animated.
* * * * *
April 22, 1914. In the evening came rumors that war with Mexico has
begun, though not yet declared. Vera Cruz has been invested, the
Customhouse occupied. Four of our young men have been killed,
twenty wounded, Mexican loss about one hundred and fifty. This
dreadful news somewhat discounted by a talk with Captain Belknap,
who thinks there is strong hope the matter may go no further. Our
Japanese servant, Matsura, gave warning at six o’clock, with the
following note:
“They have a great Japanese (of East) an assembly at New York, so I
must go there to meet. I will start this night, and if you do not
pay money that I earned six days you may don’t pay.”
With this he departed. In speaking to J. of this meeting, he
mentioned “Carnegie Hall.” He came to us late one night two years
ago without recommendations, pale, thin, hollow-eyed, all his
belongings, a map of the U. S. A., and a Japanese and English
dictionary, tied up in a handkerchief. He leaves with two
handsome, brand-new, leather suit cases, much better than J.’s,
filled with clothes J. has given him, fat as a seal, and speaking
and writing English.
* * * * *
August 4, 1914. Looked in at Lady Decies’ tea. She afflicted by the
news of war, which now takes all the color out of life. We think
and speak of little else. I am deeply afflicted by this war. Where
is all the boasted progress, the hope of peace universal?
* * * * *
August 9, 1914. Captain Belknap sailed to-day with twenty-four
hours’ warning, on the _Tennessee_, as aide to Mr. Breckenridge in
carrying help to stranded Americans in Europe. The whole Continent
is honeycombed with Americans, gone over to spend the summer and
take their good American money out of the country. This war will
teach them how good a place U. S. A. is to live in! The papers are
too full of the small discomforts of these travelers. Millionaires
are coming home in the steerage; this may improve the conditions in
the steerage for future emigrants.
* * * * *
August 17, 1914. The war news always worse and worse, the whole of
Germany and the whole of England are pitted against each other. The
sweet summer earth has become one awful carnage pit. We in America
can only agonize and try to help the stricken peoples with a little
money, saved or earned, so that we are morally helped by our
intense desire to serve those others. There are also great
commercial opportunities, brought us now by the conditions of world
struggle, and every day the press harks on the people to take
advantage of the fact that we can supply the markets that, for the
moment, neither of the fighting nations can supply. Still we seem
to suffer, too. The prices of flour, sugar, beef, almost
everything, except fruit, have gone up dreadfully.
* * * * *
September 24, 1914. The grim tragedy of the war settles more and
more upon our spirits. The horror of horrors is that so many
intelligent people feel that the peace movement and all the ideals
of the higher civilization are proven to be all in vain, and that
the world must and will, after this lesson, return to the more
purely military attitude of an earlier time. What we call the
higher civilization seems to these people merely a symptom of
effete weakness. The word for the hour is “In time of peace prepare
for war!” People talk most about our own unpreparedness. Roosevelt
says in a recent speech that he has seen the plans of two foreign
nations for the conquest of the United States; it is understood
that Germany is one of these nations. His comment is:
“Let them destroy our cities, but do not let us give a dollar for
ransom.”
The ransoms demanded by these modern Goths upon the cities of
Belgium, the cheerful, hard-working, little nation, are enough to
sicken the stoutest optimist. Laura and I are now glad that Mother
has not lived to endure this pain. The worst of it is, the mildest
people are turned into furies, even by the faint and distant echoes
of the passions that are destroying Europe and England. I feel a
savage exultation when I hear of so many Germans killed or wounded.
Then comes remorse for the hateful feeling, the remembrance that
those men are inspired by a passionate patriotism, that their wives
and mothers love them as much as English wives and mothers love
their men; but the ugly feeling was there, was uppermost before
reflection seized and tried to down it.
* * * * *
Gardiner, October 19, 1914. Here in my sister’s house they do not
feel the war quite as we do, and the gloom is not quite so intense
as in our own house, and yet the news, of course, is the thing of
the day, but after it is read the day’s work is taken up quite
firmly. The girls are all knitting socks for the soldiers. The idle
hands of many American women, I trust, will grow as tirelessly
useful as the hands of the German women! A telegram from the
Progressive National Service, asking me to speak for Gifford
Pinchot in his campaign for senatorship in Pennsylvania. I am more
interested in relief work. The whole political world seems to be
overclouded and obscured by Europe’s horror; we somehow feel that
our fate, too, is bound up in the great struggle.
* * * * *
Gardiner, October 22, 1914. Harriet Blaine Beal came down for tea,
delightful as ever. I had bought a nice pair of aluminum needles.
She set up my first muffler for the British Relief. The war news
continues indefinite.
General John Richards to dine. He is wonderfully rejuvenated by the
war that has so sadly cast down most of us. His old stories of the
Civil War are again rubbed up and thrill us as all real war stories
do. We were reminded of his military skill and the part he played
as Adjutant General of the State of Maine at the time of the
Spanish War, when his Maine militia were the best equipped men who
appeared in response to the call to arms. The fact that we all
looked up to him as a military authority helped to animate what has
seemed of late a very much diminished vitality. It’s an ill wind!
* * * * *
November 1, 1914. To Providence to speak before the People’s Forum
on the report of the Voters’ League, a very valuable document,
non-partisan in character, giving the political history of every
candidate for election in the State, and all the measures he has
stood for or opposed. I never was in such a bear-pit before. After
my forty minutes’ speech, which they had the patience to listen to,
I was asked many questions; and afterwards the members made
five-minute speeches. Most of the speakers were socialists, the
others anarchists or cranks. One demagogue, a cockney Englishman,
spoke very well as far as force and fluency goes, but his doctrines
were poisonous. He contended that organized capital had no end save
the exploitation of the workers. The spirit revealed was dour,
bitter, and most distressing. Hatred seemed the dominant note. I
have not often been so depressed. The atmosphere of passionate
discontent appalled me. I have read of such things, but have never
before actually felt the atmosphere of angry hatred and distrust.
* * * * *
November 3, 1914. To a fashionable tea party of ladies, where no
mention was made either of war or politics! It was known early that
Mr. Beeckman, Republican candidate for Governor, would carry the
State. The election has proved a Republican landslide. A good deal
more depressed than is philosophical. Well, it’s a long way to
Tipperary! This fight goes on under other names and other
leadership. The longer I live, the more sure I grow of the justness
and wisdom of the middle course Roosevelt has steered, between the
rancor of the “have nots” and the greed of the “haves”! The
Progressive platform, in its essentials, will gain year by year in
the Nation’s councils.
* * * * *
November 9, 1914. My birthday! Well, I still am glad to answer
“here” when the roll call sounds, and that’s all there is to say. I
have some cares and some pains, but I like life, I like my husband
and my job, and that’s more than many a woman can say. Therefore, I
have much to be thankful for, but I don’t like to grow old.
* * * * *
November 25, 1914. Last night a gentleman said to me at dinner,
“When Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, was at the
Newport Reading Room last summer, he said, ‘If we win, we shall be
over here in another five years.’ Is it possible that he could have
said this? If so, it ought to be made public!”
* * * * *
Thursday, November 26, 1914. To-day is Thanksgiving. Filled with an
immense gratitude for all that I have to be thankful for: health, a
beloved and loving husband, a warm house, plenty to eat, a faithful
helper, farther off a circle of kindly neighbors, and, not too far
away, dear sisters, a beloved brother, nieces, nephews, friends,
and oh, my country! Well may we Americans hold our heads high. This
is our hour of success, in spite of Roosevelt’s defeat--if he is
defeated! With the world gone war-mad and murderous hate beside us
in Mexico, beside us in Canada, we cling to our ideals of peace, we
are the courted of all the belligerents and we, out of our plenty,
are the naturally appointed helpers and friends of all who are
wounded, ravaged, desperate, bankrupt. “Golden Hope of the World,”
said Roosevelt, and said it well. Never shall this golden hope be
dragged in the dust. In this _dies irae_ the Americans are proving
to be all we hoped. The women of fashion, many of them only known
as society belles, are nursing the wounded in France and in
England. Everywhere is the same story of help and sacrifice, warm
generous giving, giving, giving. And yet let us not forget two
words of the hour,--Kaiser William’s advice to his army “to
remember Attila and the Huns and strike terribly”, and Kipling’s
“The Hun is at the Gate”!
This conscious savagery from a highly intellectual people like the
Germans seems new in history. There is something deadlier in this
barbarity that knows it is barbarous and openly admits that it is
using barbaric methods than in the unconscious brutality of the
wild Moroccan hordes of savage men whose gospel is war. The
cynicism of the man who assumes that he is acting as God’s partner
and representative on earth, and yet is willing to lead his people
through the Red Sea of blood, in order that they may win to the fat
lands of his rivals, passes anything I remember in history.
Beginning with his treatment of his mother and following with his
treatment of his enemies and of Belgium, his record grows from bad
to worse. And Belgium? On the scroll of History she has written a
deathless name, for as long as men shall tell over the stories of
great heroic acts, they will thrill at the names of Thermopylae and
of Liège.
We dined at Mrs. Shaw Safe’s. Sir Arthur Herbert took me in to
dinner, and we had much talk of the war. He echoed Kitchener’s wish
that some bomb might fall in London to wake up the people; said
that our papers gave better news than the English. He spoke of the
behavior of a certain type of his people, who wrote letters to the
papers, complaining when German waiters were dismissed from hotels
“that it was hard on their wives and children.” Said that in the
clubs Austrians and Germans were allowed, the common law holding
that if you elected a German a member of your club, you could not
put him out. Said that in wartime these civil laws should be set
aside for military laws. Said a certain German nobleman, of whom
many people were very fond, had a big house in the country, where
all the important political people visited. It was proved that all
the servants at this house were German soldiers or spies. The place
is still honeycombed with spies. He himself had been hoodwinked
completely. Until war was declared, he had no suspicion that
Germany was unfriendly to England. Had heard that the Crown Prince
said to Mrs. Whitehouse (née Armour) that Germany wanted war; would
crush France first, England second, and two years later, would come
to America!
* * * * *
Boston, December 1, 1914. Busy all day preparing for the Belgian
Relief meeting at Tremont Temple, where I am to preside. The
meeting was very fine. I took great pains, wrote out my speeches,
and took the whole day to think out what I should say. Thrilled by
the sight of the familiar old hall, crowded to its capacity; there
were thirty-five hundred people present and one thousand turned
away. I introduced first Margaret Deland, next Josephine Peabody
Marks, last Madame Vandervelde. Major Henry Higginson, who has just
celebrated his eightieth birthday, sat in the front row, many other
old friends scattered through the house. Madame Vandervelde was
deeply interesting. We took in $5,000 for the Belgians. It was a
heart-warming occasion, reminding me of many notable gatherings in
Tremont Temple in the old heroic time. Isn’t this perhaps the new
heroic time? I think so. To see Mrs. Gardner’s new additional rooms
at Fenway Court. The Chinese room downstairs like a Chinese temple,
rather awful in its dark thrill, like a tomb. These new rooms seem
to me the best in the palace.
I first remember Mrs. Gardner in the old Boston Music Hall. Any
picture of the Harvard Musical Thursday afternoon concerts would be
incomplete without her elegant figure, her expressive face as she
glided quietly to her seat escorted by--to be exact--_escorting_
three conspicuously well dressed, very young tow-haired gentlemen,
Mr. Gardner’s orphan nephews, much of whose up-bringing was
intrusted to her care. Two of these blond boys lived to attain
considerable distinction. The oldest Joseph Gardner died young, the
youngest, Augustus, familiarly known as “Gussie”, served his state
and country well as a member of Congress, made a name for himself
in the Spanish War, and gave his life for the preservation of
civilization in the World War. He married the daughter of Senator
Lodge, and is said to have remarked when the newspapers were full
of his good service at San Juan Hill:
“They cannot say I did _that_ because I was the son-in-law of Cabot
Lodge!”
The third brother, Mr. Amory Gardner, is still with us; he is a
classical scholar of note and a member of that interesting group of
masters who have made Groton School famous the world over.
In those days Mrs. Gardner was called “Mrs. Jack” by her intimates
to distinguish her from the elder Mrs. Gardner, her husband’s
mother. At that time it was the custom for ladies to carry bouquets
at balls or evening receptions. There was a good deal of rivalry
among women of fashion as to the number and style of these votive
offerings. Mrs. Gardner was always among the most favored of our
belles, and I have a vision of her now, coming into a certain
assembly at the old Horticultural Hall, resplendent in a Worth
dress of white uncut velvet,
[Illustration: MRS. JOHN LOWELL GARDNER
From the portrait by John S. Sargent]
her arms filled with flowers. It was an open secret that, while
outside the houses of many of our belles one could see on Friday
mornings, before the city carts made their rounds, the faded
bouquets of the week thrown carelessly into the ash barrels, the
flowers Mrs. Gardner had worn or carried were never thus
desecrated. It was said that she herself committed the faded
blossoms to the clean flames. I have always remembered this as a
small instance indicative of the good taste that in her has proved
equivalent to genius, and to which the art world owes beautiful
Fenway Court, in the future to be known as the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum.
At the time of which I am writing, the Gardners lived at Number 152
Beacon Street, an attractive house whose windows looked out upon
Charles River. Mr. Gardner was a genial, kindly man, greatly
beloved by a large circle of friends and relatives by whom he is
remembered as the prince of hosts. I learned from him one valuable
secret I pass on to all young housekeepers.
“Why is the coffee at your house so much better than other
people’s?” I once asked him.
“Because we are very extravagant. The only way to have good coffee
is to buy the best, and use a lot of it!”
The Gardners lost their only child, a promising boy, in infancy.
They both took a great interest in young people of talent, and if
all the boys and girls this generous couple helped to educate
should raise their voices in grateful praise, there would be a
veritable chorus of appreciation.
Among Mrs. Gardner’s qualities is the capacity for making enduring
friendships, not too common a trait in our restless age when people
are continually on the move. Her circle has always included the
talented and brilliant people of the day, and most distinguished
visitors to Boston pay their court at Fenway Court. With all the
pressure of her busy and interesting life, she always finds time
for her old friends, among whom I am happily numbered. In our
family she is best known as Kepoura, the Greek word for gardener, a
nickname given her by my brother-in-law Anagnos, who greatly
admired her.
* * * * *
January 3, 1915. Finished reading aloud Richard Harding Davis’
“With the Allies.” A good walk over the winter fields to Lawton’s
Valley with A. He is very comforting and fine in many ways, but
there is a note not quite in tune. “It’s the easiest thing in the
world to make money or a reputation,” he said. This shows in a
nutshell what I have always felt about him. It is _not_ easy to
make either! This is a false view of life and not good, I think.
Still it is a wholesome antidote in these materialistic days of
grab and swagger.
* * * * *
January 25, 1915. To-day came the news of the sinking of the
_Blücher_ with many men. The ship carried over eight hundred and
between one and two hundred were rescued. Strange that she should
bear the name of the famous, or infamous, Prussian Field Marshal,
who, when he visited Barclay and Perkins’ Brewery in London, after
Waterloo was manhandled by the British workmen because of the
cruelties committed by his soldiers at his command, in the
Napoleonic war. The worst of it all is that we have all grown so
full of wrath that the first instinct was a primitive savage joy at
the loss of the _Blücher_. Only as an afterthought comes sorrow for
the men who were drowned and for their families, but the first
impulse was the natural brute instinct, alas!
* * * * *
January 27, 1915. War news, chiefly echoes of the last real
happening we have knowledge of, the naval battle in which the
_Blücher_ was sunk. The Germans insist the English lost three
ships, one large and two small. This the British deny. They must,
however, have been somewhat punished. To-day was the Kaiser’s
birthday. The Germans interned on the _Princessen Cecile_ in Boston
got leave to have a concert in his honor at the bandstand on the
Common. Nothing was said about this in the evening papers. If the
celebration did come off, our press would not notice it.
* * * * *
January 28, 1915. Mr. Samuels’ lecture on the “Humor and Philosophy
of Woman Suffrage in England.” He was neither humorous nor
philosophical. He was loudly applauded by a group of Antis. I had
written Flossie to come and heckle him at the close of the lecture,
which she did extremely well. Going out, I shook hands with him and
said:
“No hard feelings. You will make more converts to our cause than I
ever can!”
* * * * *
February 2, 1915. To Boston and to the Opera House to see the
ballet, “Silvia”, given for the Suffrage cause. Spoke with Alice
Blackwell, Maud Wood Park and others. They advise Beatrice
Forbes-Robertson to take the taste out of Newport’s mouth after
that unspeakable Samuels. Stayed with the L.’s, much Christian
Science in the air. It’s an excellent thing for both of them,
especially for M., “to get religion”, but people of this sort act
as if they had a patent on Christianity and all other sincere
religious conviction. I have yet to meet the Christian Scientist
who ever thought seriously about any other form of religion before
he took this up. They are like the lovers who think they have
discovered love, and the young mothers who believe that they only
understand the true depths and meaning of motherhood. In the
evening to the reception for the opening of the new wing of the
Museum of Fine Arts, given in memory of Robert Evans by his widow.
Found it just as it should be; everybody there,--Beacon Street in
evening dress and diamonds, Shawmut Avenue and the South End in
half dress, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester in bonnets. My portrait by
Porter in a place of honor. It holds its own well.
* * * * *
February 9, 1915. Scareheads in the papers which I believe to be
German propaganda, stating that the _Lusitania_ was flying the
American flag as she sailed into the harbor of Liverpool. Much talk
of this simple fact, which proves a common and justifiable
expedient in war. I grow more and more afraid of Germany and of a
certain exasperating density of the British that is Germany’s great
ally!
* * * * *
February 14, 1915. To-day the one hundredth anniversary of peace
between the United States and Great Britain was observed in the
churches. Safford Jones’ sermon was to the point, and the quotation
from Emerson’s Manchester Address very apt. To see Mrs. Lorillard
Spencer. She is most interesting in telling of her experiences in
the Philippines and her work under Bishop Brent for the Moros. The
change of administration and the poor appointments Wilson has made
have brought about a state of things out there that she describes
as “hopeless.” Spoke of the work done there by Cameron Forbes and
the others of his kind as of some splendid structure whose
foundations have been shaken! More and more it seems to me we
should follow the methods of France and cut out the spoils system.
All people concerned in constructive work should be permanent and
not floating appointments to suit the politicians.
* * * * *
February 17, 1915. Many serious developments in the war. Talked
over the matter of an entertainment for the local British Relief
association. To meet Beatrice Forbes-Robertson, who arrived late
through the mistake of her agent. To the hall in fear and
trembling. Had worked hard to get an audience and found we had
succeeded beyond all hopes. The president and vice-president of the
Antis and all the Suffragists were there. She gave a good summing
up of the suffrage situation in England and then spoke of the woman
question in the U. S. A. A very fine address; she spoke nearly two
hours and nobody felt it too long. Her art as an actress made it
admirable from the dramatic point of view, as well as good sound
common sense.
* * * * *
February 28, 1915. To see Mrs. ---- after church, found her and her
husband at home. A signed photograph of the German Emperor in her
parlor,--the mark of the beast! Wherever you find this, you find
the people who own it completely pro-German. It has cost him a good
deal in photographs, and it has cost our people a good deal in gilt
and silver photograph frames with an imperial crown atop, but it
was a cheap outlay for what it has brought about for German
propaganda.
* * * * *
May 7, 1915. To-day Germany dropped the mask and stood, declared to
all the world, a Savage Nation. She has thrown behind her with both
hands the civilization which the ages have slowly raised, and
stands an exultant rebel, a magnificent Brute with all the human
qualities gone. The Cunard steamer, _Lusitania_, was torpedoed by
German submarines off Kinsale, three miles from the coast of
Ireland, and sank eighteen minutes later, carrying down more than
one thousand souls. Our neighbor, Alfred Vanderbilt, died like a
brave man; he is reported to have given away his life belt and also
tried to save some of the children. The shock of it stuns us all.
Elbert Hubbard and his wife are lost, and many others known to us
by name. The first outcry is for war--revenge! Sober second thought
with most takes on another complexion. Germany did this thing with
the idea, above all else, of provoking us to fight. From the
observation of the clever spies who live among us, it was known
that the two events which had roused our people more than any other
since the Civil War were the sinking of the _Maine_ and of the
_Titanic_. This outrage of the sinking of the _Lusitania_ was the
thing best calculated to make us declare war. As we stand now, the
silent friend behind the Allies, we are one thousand times more
deadly to Germany than if we went into the war. The great stream of
food, arms, money, stores of all sorts, doctors, nurses, helpers
of every kind, the resources of our nation, in fact, would be
diverted and kept at home. The hot-bloods clamor for war, but not
the long-headed,--or so it seems. Italy would never have attained
her freedom and the unification could never have come about, if
England had not stood solidly and quietly behind her, the great
friend and helper of the liberals. To-day we stand much in the same
attitude as the England of that time, and we must fulfill the rôle
as best we can.
In a little more than four years after its founding, the Art Association
had already outgrown the little Hunt studio and, thanks to the group of
powerful men and women who had become interested in building up the new
association, we secured for its home the fine estate, formerly belonging
to Mr. John N. A. Griswold, on the corner of Bellevue Avenue and Touro
Park. It was with something of a heartache that we gave up that modest
first home of ours, for the larger dwelling with the greater
possibilities of service. One of the last general gatherings in the Hunt
studio was a New Year’s reception.
January 1, 1916. To the Art Association for the New Year’s
reception and musicale. Lydia Hughes (Dudley Foulkes’ daughter)
sang charmingly. My brief speech was all about our new home, the
Griswold house. I recalled the story of Apollo coming to Delphi to
establish his temple, and how the god, finding no people to serve
him, compelled some sailors who were passing in a boat to come on
shore and act as his servants. I then sketched the wonderful
influence of the Delphic oracle through many centuries; spoke of
the part played in history of civilization by the temple, the
oracle, and the priests, and likened ourselves, the pioneers of the
new temple of the Arts, to those sailors compelled by the god to
serve him,--the servants of Apollo!
When we were youngsters we played a game in which one child, placing a
closed fist on the palm of another, whispered:
“Hold fast what I give you.”
From the moment war was declared and I realized that all I held dear and
sacred was in danger of being wiped out, I was haunted by those words.
If our civilization is to survive, the two main factors of its salvation
must be religion and art. Those of us who worked for the young Art
Association were a small band, holding an outpost of civilization
against the forces of anarchy and materialism. Because the garrison was
small and hard pressed, the fight was worth while. In the great cities
were thousands far better equipped to carry on the forlorn hope; here in
the small community, where for so long my people had lived and labored,
I saw my chance to “hold fast.”
In the midst of the chaos that seemed to threaten the civilization I
knew and loved, I had the feeling that, like the coral insect, my duty
was to sit tight in my own little cell and work at it for all I was
worth. The impulse to toil at the building of this particular cell--the
Newport Art Association--was more like a blind instinct than a conscious
exercise of will power.
It was borne in upon me from the first that I could do my best war work
in my own country. Though often tempted to depart from this decision, I
managed to resist the ever-returning impulse to go overseas. The lure of
active adventure was ever present and I constantly felt the urge of it,
but my better judgment told me that my task was to “Keep the Home Fires
Burning.” Some of my contemporaries accomplished great things by “going
across”; more of them were sadly in the way of the younger people and
gave endless trouble by falling ill and having to be taken care of. Only
great wealth or very exceptional qualifications excused a woman of sixty
for trying to throw in her lot with the field workers. There was enough
to do at home between transforming my own particular charge, the Art
Association, into a nerve center of patriotic activity, raising money
for the war sufferers, and holding meetings to rouse public opinion and
combat the enemy propaganda so insidiously spread in our community!
In the spring of 1915, one of the earliest of these meetings was held
with the double purpose of raising money for the British War Relief, and
of rousing the public to a better understanding of the great struggle
overseas. It was part of our policy to bring speakers from the larger
cities on all such occasions, as well as to give our own people the
opportunity of expressing their convictions. In the last days of 1916,
my husband and I called together an influential group of persons and
with their help organized a citizens’ meeting to protest against the
deportations of the Belgians by Germany. This meeting followed close
upon the great gathering in Carnegie Hall, and was the second of the
kind to be held in the United States. Mr. Daniel Fearing, the genial and
popular president of the Historical Society, presided at the meeting,
which took place December 22 in the Auditorium of the Historical
Society, a beautiful ancient hall piously preserved by the society and
formerly the old Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House, where my ancestor,
Governor Ward, worshipped. After the long series of patriotic functions
I attended during the war, this gathering still remains as clear to me
as if it had happened yesterday. Our fellow citizens made a good
showing, and two distinguished speakers from out of town came to join
in our protest, William Roscoe Thayer, and Major Louis Livingston
Seaman. It was a glowing meeting. Major Seaman’s flaming indignation
roused the audience to a white-hot heat, and Thayer’s graver, but not
less ardent, appeal led the way to the final feature of the programme,
the reading of a letter from Theodore Roosevelt written for the occasion
to Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster. I quote but one of his burning sentences:
This last and crowning brutality, which amounts to the imposition
of a cruel form of slavery on a helpless and unoffending people,
must make our people realize that they peril their own souls, that
they degrade their own manhood, if they do not bear emphatic
testimony against the perpetration of this iniquity.
The meeting closed with a resolution of protest to President Wilson, and
a telegram of sympathy to King Albert of Belgium.
Among the other valuable experiences of the war was our work for the
Italian Relief. We were charter members of the Boston society and served
upon the executive committee, and when the time came to found a kindred
association in New York, it so happened that this too devolved upon us.
Our choice of the leader of this work was a very fortunate one, and I
shall always take great pride in the fact that I, personally, not only
proposed the name of Robert Underwood Johnson for chairman, but that I
also was able to prevail upon him to accept the office which he filled
so ably and which I like to think may have had some bearing on his
subsequent interesting experiences as American Ambassador to Italy.
On April 7, 1917, the _New York Times_ brought us the news that war was
declared against Germany by the United States. On the front page under a
cut of the American flag, the _Times_ printed the “Battle Hymn of the
Republic”, now become one of the popular war songs not only in our
country, but in England and France. The effort often before made to have
it declared the national hymn would have succeeded at this time, I
believe, but for one reason. While the words were acceptable to all
sections of the country, the South could not forget that the music was
formerly sung to other verses, and the supporters of the Confederacy and
their descendants could not forget or forgive the words of the older
song:
We’ll hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree!
I first learned of this sentiment at a patriotic meeting at the house of
Arthur Curtis James, when the “Battle Hymn” was recited by Julia
Marlowe. I happened to be sitting near two Southern ladies who were much
moved by the recitation and overheard one say to the other:
“Why on earth do they persist in singing those beautiful words to that
abominable tune?”
Many earnest efforts have been made to set the “Battle Hymn” to other
music, but I believe this to be a hopeless task. The words were inspired
by the music and are inseparable from it. When we remember that the same
air is sung to the words of the English “God Save the King”, to the
German National Hymn, and to our own “America”, may we not hope that in
the future the bitter memories connected with the air will be forgotten,
and that every section of our country will accept both air and music?
After the Art Association moved to its larger quarters, my husband took
the old Hunt studio, and when war was declared, turned it over to the
use of the Surgical Dressings Committee, which under the leadership of
Miss Renée Cortazzo, did such magnificent work, and to the British and
Italian War Relief societies. Among the memories of that time are
certain joyous quilting parties. An ancient quilting frame was unearthed
from the lumber room where it had long slept, and groups of gay young
girls gathered around the old frame to make warm wadded quilts for the
soldiers. Another pleasant memory picture of the old studio is of an
exhibition and sale of fine Belgian laces brought to this country by a
pair of patriotic Belgians, M. and Mme. Dethoor, who by their efforts
managed to support the families of many Belgian lace makers during the
war.
The most haunting and touching of all the war memories that center about
the old studio is the exhibition of portrait drawings, by my husband, of
certain young American soldiers who, before we entered the conflict,
gave their lives for the great cause. Two of these young men, both
members of the Lafayette Escadrille, were of our kindred, Victor
Chapman, the stepson of our cousin, Elizabeth Chanler, and Norman
Prince, whose grandfather, Mayor Frederick Prince of Boston, called my
mother “cousin.” Others, like Quentin Roosevelt, Hamilton Coolidge, and
Marquand Ward, were the sons of intimate friends. The names of these
heroic youths will never be forgotten, for they were the first fruits of
the harvest of sacrifice, and, by their example, led the way to all that
followed.
On the sixth day of January, 1919, the mail brought me a letter from
Mrs. Roosevelt, written in answer to one from me to her husband, who
“was not feeling quite equal to write himself.” A few hours before the
newspaper had brought the news of the passing of our great leader in
the night. The following Sunday I called the first of the many Roosevelt
Memorial Meetings. It was held at the Strand Theatre in Newport. The
meeting opened with a prayer by Dr. Roderick Terry, and closed with a
resolution prepared and offered by me:
RESOLUTION
The standard bearer has fallen, but his colors still lead us on.
Having met together to express our sense of a common loss in the
death of that great American, Theodore Roosevelt, we pledge
ourselves anew to the service of the country he so greatly served
and so deeply loved. Thankful for his life, we are thankful for the
manner of his death that seems as a reward for his great service,
coming painlessly while he slept; He giveth his beloved sleep.
While sorrowing for our lost leader, we know that his dearest wish
would be that instead of wasting ourselves in vain lamentations for
his death, we should gird ourselves anew to fight the good fight
with all the strength that is in us, and show our sense of his loss
by the added impetus for good in our lives gained from his high
example. I move that this resolution be adopted as an expression of
the feeling of this meeting and a copy thereof be sent to Mrs.
Roosevelt.
One of the miracles of the World War was the way in which all manner of
institutions, factories, plants of every kind were transformed from
their original purpose to meet the needs of the hour. There never was a
more striking exhibition of American genius than the Protean changes
that all sorts and kinds of institutions underwent. In Rhode Island,
Brown University, like Harvard, became a training school for reservists,
our famous jewelry factories were turned into munition plants, and so
we were only doing what every other sort of institution was doing, when
we transformed the Art Association from a purely cultural æsthetic
institution, into a live patriotic nerve center. Every Sunday afternoon
and every holiday during the war, and while the large number of
reservists and enlisted men remained in Newport after the war, the Art
Association kept open house for the soldiers and sailors. We found among
the reservists many high-grade professional musicians. One of the best
features of our Sunday afternoons was that they gave these men the
opportunity to practice the art they had perforce laid down for the time
of their service. Among the performers were several artists of great
talent, pianists, violinists, ’cellists, and singers. To these men the
opportunity of expressing themselves in their own calling, was life
saving. A group of our members got together and bought a Steinway piano
for these artists. I shall never forget the face of a certain pianist
who, after six days of hard manual labor, stretched his fingers for the
first time over the keyboard of our Steinway.
“Nothing is too good for our boys”,--that was the word for the hour. It
is as true now as it was then, let us remember. Besides those blessed
Sunday afternoons, when the Art Association coffee made a name for
itself that is known from Maine to California--we opened classes in
mechanical drawing for the enlisted men, and included in the regular
classes of our art school all such reservists as were able to profit by
the opportunity. Meanwhile the other functions of the Art Association
were maintained, and the building was a humming hive of workers every
day in the week, Sundays and holidays included. Those Sunday afternoon
festivities always closed with the boys singing the popular war
songs,--“There’s a Long Long Trail”--“Pack up Your Troubles in Your Old
Kit Bag”--“Tipperary”, the whole company joining in the chorus with a
right good will. There are certain of those songs I can never hear
without a vision of the shining faces of our boys as they sat cheek by
jowl with our dainty belles, our grave social workers and clergymen, our
plain workaday folk, and our summer plutocrats. The light that never was
on land or sea glowed in those faces, young and old, familiar and
foreign, for many nations were represented in those gatherings, as well
as all classes,--Jews and Gentiles, Scandinavians, Teutons, Celts,
Latins, and Slavs. One common feeling bound them all together, the love
of our country, the hope of the world.
If, sometimes in these post-war days, I feel a moment of doubt or fear
for the future of America, to find comfort I have but to call to mind
the memory of those Sunday afternoon gatherings and to listen in fancy
to the strong young voices singing the familiar words:
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat!
FINIS
INDEX
Abbott, Jere, 52
Abdin Palace, and the Khedive’s wives, 179;
ball at the, 181
Abdul Hamid, Sultan, 257
Aberdeen, Lady, 235
Abolitionist, author first learns meaning of, 58
Abyssinia, war between Italy and, 275
Accoramboni, Palazzo. _See_ RUSTICUCCI, PALAZZO
Acropolis, the, 193, 311
Adams, Henry, his Washington home, 337;
genius for friendship, 337;
and Saint-Gaudens’ bronze “Nirvana”, 337-338;
and “The Education of Henry Adams”, 338;
last meeting with, 338;
comment on treatment of our presidents, 342; 343
Addams, Jane, 358
Aesthetic movement, height of the, in 1877, 147
Agassiz, Louis J. R., 25
“Age of Fable, The”, Bulfinch, 29
Aïdé, Hamilton, 241, 297, 299
Albani, Madame, 151
Albert, King, of Belgium, 387
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 298
Alexandria, Egypt, 176
Alger, Abbie L., a gifted woman, 24
Alger, Kitty, intimate friend and classmate, 24, 46, 56
Alger, William Rounseville, characteristics of, 24;
and his “Poetry of the Orient”, 24-25;
at home of, 25;
preaches in Music Hall, 25
Alhambra, the, 253
“Alice in Wonderland”, Carroll, 29
Alma-Tadema, Sir Laurence, home in London, 142
Alma-Tadema, Mrs. Laurence, 142
“American House Building at Messina”, Belknap, 327
American Relief Committee, and its work for the earthquake sufferers, 327-328
American School for Classical Study in Rome, 310
American School of Archaeology in Athens, 312
_America’s_ Cup, the, 148
“Ami des femmes, L’”, 271
Anacapri, 291-292
Anagnos, Michael, 80-81;
and Helen Keller, 228; 380
Anagnos, Mrs. Michael, the author’s sister, 6;
characteristics of, 37 61;
reads aloud to author, 62 78, 79;
engagement, 81;
marriage, 86;
death, 216
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, 12
Andalusia, 254
Anderson, Larz, 256, 334
Anderson, Mrs. Larz, a year of travel with the author, 271-282;
presents “Diana of the Tides” to New National Museum, 334; 348
Andrew, Bessie, 18
Andrew, Edith, 17, 18
Andrew, Forrester, 18
Andrew, Harry, 18
Andrew, John Albion, the great War Governor, 17;
his home, 17-18;
personal appearance, 18;
letters from S. G. Howe to, 19, 20;
Howe’s services, 19-20;
and the box of snakes, 19
Anglin, Margaret, as _Phedra_ in “Hippolytus”, 348
“Antiques and Horribles”, 11
Appleton, Henry, of Leeds, England, 280
Appleton, Thomas Gold, 196
Apthorp, Robert, 40
“Arabian Days”, 248-255
Arctic exploration, compelling fascination of, 100-101
Armour, Mr. and Mrs. George, course of lectures at home of, 218
Art, acquiring a love of, 62-63;
Centennial Exposition did much for, 135;
one of author’s absorbing interests, 135
Art Association of Newport, inception of, 367;
first home of, 367-368;
researches in early art traditions of town, 368-369;
enthusiasm of founders of, 369;
larger quarters of, 384;
last reception and musicale in old home, 384;
importance of work of, 385-386;
effect of World War on, 391;
welfare work for service men by, 391-392
“Artists’ Life in Rome”, lecture on, 351, 367
Ascension Church, New York, 317
Ashburton Place, Joseph Howe’s home in, 36-37
Association for the Advancement of Women, 135
Assouan, 273
Aston Clinton, country seat of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 148-150
Astronomy, study of, 59-60
Asylum for the Insane, Taunton, 83
Asylums, conditions in the pauper, 227
Athens, Greece, 190-193, 310-312
_Atlantic Monthly_, 289
“At the Sign of the Dollar”, Deland, 203
Austin, Henry, 214
Austria, Empress of, 278
Autograph collectors, impositions practised by, 84-85
“Aventurière, L’”, 281
“Bab Ballads, The”, Gilbert, 29, 151
Back Bay, new section of the, 54;
naming the streets of the, 55
Baden Baden, 278
Baez, President, of Republic of Santo Domingo, 84, 91;
the Howe party, guests of, 94
Baker, Sir Samuel and Lady, 177
Balfour, Arthur, 233
Balkan Relief Fund, art exhibition and sale for, 369-370
Balloon ascension on Boston Common, 12-13
Bancroft, George, famous rose garden of, 117;
personal appearance of, 132;
enjoyment of young company, 132
Bancroft, Mrs. George, 132
“Barbauld’s Poems, Mrs.”, 29
“Barber of Seville, The”, 215;
in Rome, 293
Barnard, Inman, 177
Barrère, Madame, 329
Bartol, Rev. Cyrus, 52
Battersea, Lord. _See_ FLOWER, CYRIL
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”, Julia Ward Howe, 21, 286, 359, 388
Bayard, Senator Thomas F., 130
Bayard, Mrs. Thomas F., 336
Bayreuth, and the Wagner operas, 278-279
Beaconsfield, Earl of, 139, 140
Beal, Harriet Blaine, 374
“Beau Brummel”, 228, 229
Beauregard, General P. G. T., 211-212
Bedford, Duchess of, 235
Befana, the children’s Christmas in Italy, 324
Belgian Relief, presides at Tremont Temple meeting for, 377
Belgium, memories of visit to, 174
Belknap, Commander Reginald R., and relief work in Sicily, 327-328;
appreciation of John Elliott’s labors, 327-328; 371, 372
Bell, Sir James and Lady, 280
Bellamy, Edward, 223
Bellew, Kyrle, 233
Benlliure, Mariano, Spanish sculptor, 265
Bennett, James Gordon, and the _Jeannette_ expedition, 99;
and polo, 116, 117
Bernstorff, Count von, 349;
reported remark of, 375
Bethlehem, Palestine, 185
Biggar, Mr., 140
Bird, Charles Sumner, 355, 357, 358
Bird, Mrs. Charles Sumner, 355, 361
Bird, Effie. _See_ TILDEN, MRS. LINZEE
Black, William, 143
“Black Crook”, 71
Blackler, Edith, the author’s “twin”, 114
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 381
Blaine, Emmons, 131
Blaine, James G., Speaker of the House, 131;
his home in Augusta, 131
Blaine, Walker, 131
Bliss, Alexander, “Sandy”, 132
_Blücher_, sinking of the, 380
Boardman, Mabel, 341, 349
Boer War, 295, 296;
siege of Ladysmith, 297;
scenes in London at close of, 298
Boni, Giacomo, 175
“Book of Nonsense”, Lear, 29
Booth, Edwin, in “The Iron Chest”, 39;
a matinée idol, 39;
as _Shylock_, 224-225;
letter from, 225
Booth, General William, and “In Darkest England”, 242, 247
Bordentown, N. J., visit to, 74-76
Boston Common, and Fourth of July celebrations, 12-14
_Boston Evening Transcript_, 195, 260
Boston Fire of 1872, 107-108
_Boston Herald_, 352
Boston Latin School, prize drills in Music Hall, 43-44;
prize declamations of, 44;
head master of, 45
Boston Music Hall, 40;
favorite resort, 40;
dedication of great organ, 40; 41-43
Boston Public Library, decorations by John Elliott
for ceiling of, 296, 300-301, 306
Boston Symphony Concerts, 227
Bostonian Society, portrait of Mrs. Howe presented to, 359
Bowdoin, Anthony, funeral of, 329-330
Boxer Rebellion, 302, 306
Boylston Place, fire at Howe home in, 81-82
Bradford, Daniel, steward at Perkins Institution, 8-9
Bradford, George, a favorite teacher of history and astronomy, 58-60
Bradley, Rev. Leverett, 294
Braemar, Scotland, 280, 281
Bridgman, Laura, 6;
at Bradford’s wedding, 9;
education of, 10;
enjoyment of music, 10; 228;
author in collaboration with sister writes life of, 228, 314;
characteristic letter from Henry James on life of, 315-316;
letter from Roosevelt on life of, 317
Brighton Road, riding and driving on the, 54
British Embassy in Rome, 256
British Museum, 144
Brittany, recollections of, 174, 175
Broadwood, Maud, 171
Brooke, Stopford A., 152;
popularity of, 153
Brooks, Phillips, 201, 229
Brown, John, at the Howe home, 15-16
Browning, Penn, 290
Browning, Robert, meeting with, 141;
impressions of, 141-142
Brownson, Admiral, 340
Buffalo Bill. _See_ CODY, COLONEL WILLIAM F.
Bulak Museum, 178
Bull, Ole, 42
Burlington House, London, 145
Butler, Captain and Mrs., 292
Butler, Mr., author of “Nothing to Wear”, 285
Cable, George W., 212-213;
feeling in New Orleans against, 214-215;
personal appearance and charm of, 215
Caine, Hall, and D. G. Rossetti, 285;
personal appearance of, 285;
opinion of Rome, 285
Cairo, Egypt, 176
Calabria, earthquake of 1908 in, 326-329
Cambridge, Duke of, visits John Elliott’s studio in Rome, 296;
sits for portrait, 296-297
Campello, Count Salome, 333
Cannon, Joseph G., congressman, 336
Cantrell, Mr., 370
Capel, Monsignor, 160
Capri, visit to, 291-292
Carlisle, Lord, attentions shown the Howes in London by, 144
Carlisle, Lady, 144, 145
Carlyle, Thomas, 15
_Carpathia_, s. s., 352
Carpenter, Miss, 358
Carreño, Theresa, 42
Catholicism, Mrs. Howe’s fear that author might embrace, 290
Cavalotti, 286
Cecilia Society, The, 41
Centennial Exposition of 1876, 135
Central National Society for Women’s Suffrage, 235
_Century Magazine_, the, 324
Chaldeans, Mass celebrated by the, 284
Chanler, Daisy, 230, 288, 289
Chanler, Elizabeth, 389
Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop (_née_ Ward), the author’s cousin, 70-71
Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop (_née_ Terry), the author’s cousin, 167, 195
Channing, William Henry, letter to Mrs. Howe, 85
Chant, Mrs. L. Ormiston, 234-235
Chapman, Victor, 389
Charitable institutions, visits to, 82-83
Chauncy Hall School, 44-45
Chester, England, 139
Chestnut Street, home at No. 13, 51
Chicago, 136;
author and her husband in, 217-222;
gives first lecture course in, 218;
secret of the city’s strength, 219
Child, Richard Washburn, 358
“Christian, The”, Caine, 285
Christian Science, comment on, 381
Christmas Eve, in Rome, 158
Church of the Disciples, first home of, 47;
fiftieth anniversary of, 229
Churchill, Sir Randolph, 233
Churchill, Winston, 355;
at Progressive rally in Providence, 360
Circolo Italiano, founded in Boston by author, 333
Civil War, vague recollections of the, 20
Clark, Lester W., 44
Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, the Howes’ minister, 25; 47;
performs marriage ceremony of author, 216; 229
Clemens, Samuel L., 248
Clement, Mr., 330
Cobbe, Francis Power, 148
Cochran, W. Burke, 362
Cochrane, Jessie, 291, 300
Cody, Colonel William F., 215, 232
Coleman, C. C., 292
Coleman, Enrico, 321
Colfax, Schuyler, 108
Columbian Exposition, 222
Columbus, Bartholomew, 99
Columbus, Christopher, Dominican legend concerning, 93;
tomb in Santo Domingo, 97;
the tomb in Havana, 102;
an apostrophe to, 138
Conanicut Island, 110
“Concerning X 107”, Deland, 203
Congress of Berlin in 1878, Italy at the, 169
Congress of Women, in London, 290
Conrad, Lily. _See_ THEODOLI, MARCHESA
Constantinople, 188-189
Contoocook, N. H., a week in winter in, 348-349
Conway, Moncure D., 152;
assertive personality of, 153
Coolidge, Baldwin, 353
Coolidge, Hamilton, 389
Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, Porter’s portrait of author in, 125
Cordova, beauty of the mosque of, 317
“Corner, The”, New York home of Grandfather Ward, 65, 72
Cornish, N. H., beauty of the country around, 311-312
Corso, the, on Christmas Eve, 158
Cortazzo, Miss Renée, 389
Corti, Count, bitter irony of, 169-170
Costa, Giovanni, studying painting under, 163
Cram, Ralph Adams, 223
Crane, Walter, Watts’ portrait of, 239
Crawford, Annie. _See_ RABÉ, BARONESS ERICH VON
Crawford, Francis Marion, the author’s cousin, 159, 161;
personal appearance, 162; 165, 166;
and his sister Annie, 167; 195;
gift of story-telling, 196;
literary reviews for magazines, 196;
studies for operatic stage, 197;
writes “Mr. Isaacs”, 197;
“Dr. Claudius”, and “A Roman Singer”, 199;
achieves fame by his books, 199;
an indefatigable worker, 258; 265, 293;
inclined to superstitions, 323; 334
Crawford, Mimola. _See_ FRASER, MRS. HUGH
Crawford, Thomas, sculptor, 41;
uncle of the author, 65;
work on the Capitol at Washington, 72; 167
Crawford, Mrs. Thomas. _See_ TERRY, MRS. LUTHER
Creoles, of New Orleans, 213
Cretan chieftains, banquet to the Howes, 190-191
Cretan insurrection, 78
Crispi, Francesco, Minister of the Interior, 163;
and the Triple Alliance, 163, 169; 261, 264, 286
Crowninshield, Frederick, 194
Cuba, visit to, 101-104
Current Topics Club, 351
Currie, Lady, 143, 256, 257
Currie, Lord, 256;
a _faux pas_ by, 257
Cushman, the Misses Alice and Ida, 135
Cyprus, 186
Dante, John Elliott’s drawing of, 259-260
Davis, Major, 298
“Débâcle”, Zola, 268
Decies, Lady, 372
De Koven, Reginald and Mrs., 218
Deland, Lorin, 200;
genial and kindly nature of, 202;
pride in his wife’s success, 202;
his writings, 203
Deland, Mrs. Lorin, close friendship with, 200-201;
regard for Mrs. Howe, 201;
author one of literary advisers of, 201;
her writings, 202;
love for flowers, 202; 377
Deland, Margaret. _See_ DELAND, MRS. LORIN
De Long, George W., arctic explorer, 92, 97, 99-100
Derby, Haskett, 121
Derby, Lucy, intimate friend, 120, 121;
Edward A. Sothern at home of, 121
Derby, Richard, 121
“Diana of the Tides”, painting by John Elliott, 326, 328, 329;
gift to New National Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson, 334
Dickinson, J. McG., Secretary of War, 339
Dilke, Sir Charles, 140
“Discoverer, The”, Hunt’s fresco in Capitol at Albany, 119
Disraeli, Benjamin. _See_ BEACONSFIELD, EARL OF
Dixon, Senator, 364
“Dr. Howe and His Famous Pupil Laura Bridgman”, Hall and Howe, 228, 314
Doggett, Mrs., 136
Dorr, Mrs. Charles H., 116
Drake, Sir Francis, 99
Draper, General and Mrs. William F., 286-287
Dresser, LeRoy, 354
Dudley, Lady, 147
Dumaresq, Francis, 44
_Dundreary, Lord_, Sothern’s chief rôle, 121
Dunraven, Lady, 148
Dunraven, Lord, 147-148
Duse, Madame, 284
Dwight, John Sullivan, president of Harvard Musical Association, 40;
founds his _Journal of Music_, 40;
“adopted son” of author, 40;
devotee of Boston Music Hall, 41;
his outspoken criticism, 41;
classical taste and indifference to opera, 42-43;
enjoyed “Oberon”, 43
_Dwight’s Journal of Music_, 40, 41
Earthquake, author experiences first, in Santo Domingo, 98;
in Sicily, 326-329
Easter, gorgeousness of, services in Rome, 295
“Ecce Homo”, Seeley, 152
Edgeworth, Maria, 15
Egypt, a trip to, 176-183;
second visit to, 272-273
Elliott, Edward, brother of author’s husband, 229;
untimely death by drowning, 229-230
Elliott, Sir George, 176
Elliott, John, author’s escort at Royal Academy reception, 145; 174;
marriage of Maud Howe and, 216;
in Chicago, 217-222;
mural decorations for Mrs. Potter Palmer’s home, 217;
work in collaboration with Pretyman, 221; 223, 225-226;
appreciation of music, 227;
proposed decoration for Boston Public Library by, 229;
his brother Edward’s death, 229-230;
visits London, 232-242;
in Spain and Morocco, 248-255;
in Rome, 256;
studio in Palazzo Santa Croce, 259;
pastel drawing of Dante, 259-260; 263-264;
home in Palazzo Rusticucci, 265; 266, 269, 275, 287;
designs Mrs. Howe’s costumes, 289; 293;
portraits of heroes of Boer War, 296, 299, 300;
portrait of the Duke of Cambridge, 296-297;
on English feeling at close of Boer War, 298;
Queen Margherita visits studio of, 300-302;
his “Triumph of Time”, 302; 303, 305, 306, 313;
poses for figure in portrait of the king of Spain by
Villegas, 319-320; 321, 323;
completion of “Diana of the Tides”, 326, 329, 334;
important relief work in Messina disaster, 327-328;
Red Cross medal conferred on, 341; 347, 348;
a founder of the Art Association of Newport, 352; 353, 355;
presentation to Bostonian Society of portrait of Mrs. Howe
by, 359; 365, 366, 367;
picture exhibition and sale for Red Cross, 369-370; 371, 372, 386, 388;
portraits of young Americans dead in the World War, 389
Elliott, Mrs. John (Maud Howe Elliott), birth, 4;
home in Perkins Institution for the Blind, 5;
sisters and brothers, 6;
early memories, 6-9;
homes at Green Peace and in Lawton’s Valley, 11;
and Fourth of July, 11-14;
her parents’ friends, 14-15;
and story of John Brown, 15-17;
recollections of Sumner and Andrew, 17-19;
and death of Lincoln, 21;
her mother’s friends “The Owls”, 22-27;
the spell of Hawthorne, 28;
favorite books, 29;
memories of Green Peace, 30-32;
death of little Sam the younger brother, 33;
her father’s family, 34-38;
sees first play, 38-39;
early love for music, 40-43;
school exhibitions, 43-45;
schools and teachers, 46-60;
school-day games and pastimes, 48-52;
and Francis Parkman, 53;
dancing school, 55-57;
home life in girlhood, 61-62;
acquiring a taste for poetry, music, and art, 62-63;
first visit to New York, 64-71;
her mother’s family, 64-68;
Grandfather Ward’s home “The Corner”, 65;
Uncle Samuel Ward, 68-70;
in Washington, 71-73;
her aunt’s home in Bordentown, 74-76;
and George V autograph collection, 76-77;
absence of parents in Europe, 78-80;
engagement of sisters, 80-82;
first literary effort, 83;
a week in the White House, 83-85;
marriage of her three sisters, 86;
her brother Henry, 87;
household duties, 88;
trip to Santo Domingo, 91-101;
experiences first earthquake, 98;
meets DeLong, future arctic explorer, 99-100;
in Cuba, 101-104;
intimate companionship with father, 106-107;
the Boston Fire, 107-108;
presidential campaign of 1872, 108-109;
memories of summer home at Portsmouth, R. I., 109-116;
girlhood friends, 111, 114;
early days in Newport, 116-117;
a change of summer homes, 117;
acquaintance with William M. Hunt, 118-120;
meets Edward A. Sothern, 121-123;
home life at Green Peace, 123-127;
Porter’s portrait of, 124-126;
home at No. 32 Mt. Vernon Street, 127;
meets Bret Harte, 127-129;
again in Washington, 129-133;
funeral of Charles Sumner, 133;
death of her father, 134;
added responsibilities, 134;
Philadelphia and the Centennial, 135;
trip through the Middle West, 135-136;
an Emerson lecture, 137;
first trip to Europe, 138;
in England, 139-157;
meeting with Parnell, 140;
and Robert Browning, 141;
the Alma-Tademas, 142;
entertained by Edmund Yates, 142-143;
sits for Burne-Jones, 144;
art exhibitions, 145-146;
social activities, 146-147;
the world of sport, 147-148;
a week with the Rothschilds, 148-150;
differences in English and American social life, 150;
the opera and theater in London, 150-152;
impressions of Irving, 151;
hears noted preachers, 152-153;
enjoys hansom cab and bus, 155-157;
in Rome, 158-173;
Christmas Eve, 158;
her aunt Mrs. Terry’s salon, 159-161;
memorable day in the Forum, 161;
hears Abbé Liszt, 161;
studies painting under Costa, 163;
attack of Roman fever, 164-165;
convalescence in Orvieto, 165-166;
Mrs. Terry and her family, 166-168;
death of King Victor Emmanuel, 168;
Garibaldi, 168-169;
in elaborate tableaux, 170-173;
in Holland, Belgium, Brittany and Switzerland, 174-175;
a trip to Egypt, 176-184;
Cairo, 176-177;
ascent of the great pyramid, 178;
and the Khedive’s royal wives, 179-181;
the ball at the palace, 181-183;
in Palestine, 184-186;
Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the Garden of Gethsemane, 185-186;
Constantinople, 188-189;
the secret of the mummy, 189-190;
in Greece, 190-193;
father’s memory revered by Cretans, 190-191;
the Schliemanns and their excavations, 191-192;
souvenirs of the Grecian trip, 192;
art not her _métier_, 194;
first payment for literary work, 194;
regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, 195;
Saint-Gaudens and the Shaw Memorial, 195;
home life, 195-196;
and Marion Crawford, 195-197;
at Oak Glen, 197;
Crawford and the writing of “Mr. Isaacs”, 197;
first telephone message at Oak Glen, 198;
in new Beacon Street home, 198-199;
and Crawford’s success as a novelist, 199;
her brother Henry Marion Howe, 199;
calls on Longfellow, 199-200;
first book published anonymously, 200;
a summer in California, 200;
writes “San Rosario Ranch”, 200;
friendship with the Delands, 200-203;
six months in New Orleans, 204-216;
the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 204-206, 209, 211, 215;
round of social gaiety, 206-209;
the Mardi Gras, 206-207;
meeting with Henry Watterson, 209-210;
some literary lights, 214;
and George W. Cable, 214-215;
writes “Atlanta in the South”, 216;
death of her sister Julia and Uncle Sam Ward, 216;
marriage, 216;
in Chicago, 217-222;
course of lectures by, 218;
meets Eugene Field, 220;
editor of book on women’s work at Columbian Exposition, 222;
return to Boston, 222;
and Oliver Wendell Holmes, 223-224;
Booth and Modjeska in “The Merchant of Venice”, 224-225;
a play for Richard Mansfield, 236;
and William Dean Howells, 226;
on conditions in pauper asylums, 227;
Helen Keller and the Perkins Institution, 228;
work on story of education of Laura Bridgman, 228;
death of her brother-in-law, 229-230;
mother preaches at the Church of the Disciples, 230-231;
funeral of Francis Parkman, 231;
again in London, 232-247;
hospitality of English friends, 234-236;
and Henry James, 236-237;
the theater in London, 237;
George Watts the artist, 237-238;
Watts’ pictures and methods of work, 238-240;
Watts’ equestrian statue “Physical Energy”, 240-241;
and Henry M. Stanley, 241-242;
and the work of the Salvation Army, 242-247;
lecture on “With Booth in Darkest England”, 247;
in Spain and Morocco, 248-255;
experiences in Tangier, 249-251;
and the Sharifa, 251-252;
beauty and charm of Granada, 253;
Andalusia, 253-254;
a week of romance, 254-255;
artist life in Rome, 256-270;
fascination of the city, 257-258;
and Marion Crawford, 258;
first home in Rome, 258-259;
syndicate letters, 260;
colorful functions in St. Peter’s, 260-261;
an audience with Queen Margherita, 261-263;
home in Palazzo Rusticucci, 264-265;
summer in Rome, 266-267;
round of social amenities, 267-269;
Lenten services, 270;
year of travel, 271-282;
in Paris, 271-272;
Egypt and the Nile, 272-273;
Assouan, 273;
Jaffa and Palestine, 274-275;
in Italy, 273;
Emperor William II at the theater, 275-276;
through Germany and Austria, 276-278;
Wagner operas at Bayreuth, 278-279;
the charm of Holland, 279;
in London, 280;
Scotland, 280-281;
glimpses of Queen Victoria, 281;
back in Paris, 281;
return to Rome, 283;
her mother’s last visit to Rome, 283-289;
Christmas in Rome, 283;
tea with a _gobbo_, 284;
meets Hall Caine, 285;
the war with Spain, 287;
Villegas’ portrait of her mother, 288;
her mother’s return home, 289;
letter from her mother, 289;
and the Church of Rome, 290;
a trip to Capri, 291-292;
beauty of the island, 291;
and Henry James, 294;
dawn of the twentieth century in Rome, 295;
the Boer War, 295, 297-298;
and the Duke of Cambridge, 296-297;
dismantling the terrace, 299-300;
Queen Margherita at the studio, 300-301;
the Boxer Rebellion, 302, 306;
a gift from the Queen, 303;
American pilgrims in Rome, 303;
assassination of King Umberto, 303-305;
closing the home in Rome, 306;
the mural decoration for the Boston Public Library, 307;
letter from Henry James, 307-308;
a second “dawn” of the twentieth century, 309;
at New England Woman’s Club, 310;
abroad again, 310;
Athens, 310-311;
audience with Queen Olga, 311;
in England, 312;
art and literary work in Cornish, 312-313;
completion of “Dr. Howe and His Famous Pupil Laura Bridgman”, 314;
her “Roma Beata” and “Two in Italy”, 314;
characteristic letter from Henry James, 315-316;
letter from Theodore Roosevelt, 317;
on the Russo-Japanese War, 317;
the great mosque at Cordova, 317;
High Mass at the Seville Cathedral, 318;
a visit to Villegas in Madrid, 318-320;
in Rome, 320-329;
the new home, 322;
Thanksgiving Day in Rome, 322-323;
Christmas and Befana, 324;
the earthquake in Sicily, 326-329;
work for relief of the sufferers, 327-329;
completion of “Diana of the Tides”, 329;
return to Boston, 329;
suggested memorial to her father, 330;
on the development of Italy, 331-332;
founds the Circolo Italiano in Boston, 333;
a successful test of aviation in Rome, 334-335;
Washington in 1910, 336-343;
changes in the city, 336;
Henry Adams and his intimates, 337-339;
meets President Taft and the Cabinet, 339-342;
in Washington in 1912, 343-344;
Roosevelt and the nomination, 344-345;
death of her mother and tributes to, 346;
letter from Roosevelt, 346-347;
a call from Roosevelt, 347;
production of her mother’s “Hippolytus”, 347-348;
a week in Contoocook, 348;
calls on Roosevelt in New York, 349-350;
Roosevelt announces candidacy for nomination, 350;
on the opposition to Roosevelt, 351;
loss of the _Titanic_, 352;
inception of the Art Association of Newport, 352;
and the Suffrage Parade in New York, 353;
Republican National Convention, 353;
first rally of Progressive Party in Massachusetts, 354;
in charge of women’s part in Progressive State campaign, 355;
the Progressive campaign, 355-366;
presentation of mother’s portrait to Bostonian Society, 359;
Progressive rally in New York, 364;
end of campaign and election of Wilson, 366;
“Artists’ Life in Rome” and the Current Topics Club, 367;
the Art Association of Newport, 367-369;
picture exhibition and sale for the Red Cross, 369-370;
on death of King George of Greece, 370;
remarkable dream of her mother, 371;
outbreak of the World War, 372-373;
in Gardiner, Maine, 373-374;
at People’s Forum in Providence, 374;
remark of Count von Bernstorff, 375;
on Germany’s ruthlessness, 376;
Tremont Temple meeting for Belgian relief, 377;
appreciation of Mrs. John L. Gardner, 378-380;
destruction of the _Blücher_, 380;
comment on Christian Science, 381;
administration in the Philippines, 382;
successful suffrage meeting, 382;
the sinking of the _Lusitania_, 383-384;
success of the Art Association of Newport, 384-385;
war relief work, 385-386;
declaration of war by United States, 388;
the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, 388;
portraits of Americans lost in the War, 389;
death of Roosevelt, 390;
work for men in the service, 391-392;
inspiration of the Sunday meetings with the “boys”, 392
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, anecdote told by, 23; 26;
impression of, 137
Emmanuel III, accession of, 303; 334
England, visited, 138, 232, 280, 298, 312
English High School, 43
Equal Suffrage League, 358
Erechtheum, souvenir photograph of, 192-193
Essipoff, Madame, Russian pianist, 42
Evangelides, Christy, 186, 187
Exhibition Day, at the Perkins Institution, 10-11
Fabens, Colonel, 92
Fairchild, Mrs., 224
Farman, Consul General, 177
Fawcett, Mrs., 234
Fearing, Daniel, 386
Federn, Carl, 326
Fenway Court, 377, 379
Ferguson, the guide, 248, 249
Fergusons, the, 280, 281
Field, Eugene, 220
Fields, James T., 25
Fireworks, on Boston Common, 13-14
“First Martyr, The”, Mrs. Howe’s poem, 16-17
Fish, Mrs. Hamilton, 129
“Flag, The”, Mrs. Howe’s poem, 286
“Flight of Night, The”, Hunt’s fresco in the Capitol at Albany, 119
Flower, Constance. _See_ FLOWER, MRS. CYRIL
Flower, Cyril, marriage to Constance de Rothschild, 148-149; 235, 236
Flower, Mrs. Cyril, author visits, 148;
resentment of Jewish community at marriage of, 148-149; 290
“Flying Squadron”, in Progressive Party campaign, 357
Foley, Margaret, 353
Forbes-Robertson, Beatrice, 381, 382
Fourth of July, early celebrations of, 11-14;
in Rome, 265
“Franconia Stories, The”, 29
Fraser, Hugh, 297
Fraser, Mrs. Hugh, the author’s cousin, 167; 302
Frelinghuysen, Senator F. T., 129
“From Sunset Ridge”, Julia Ward Howe, 289
Fuller, George, not fully appreciated in life, 120;
some of his work, 120, 121
Fuller, Margaret, 15
Games and Pastimes, 32, 49-52
Gardiner, Maine, and the World War, 373
Gardner, Amory, 178
Gardner, Augustus P., public services of, 378
Gardner, Francis, head-master of Boston Latin School, 45;
Hunt’s portrait of, 45
Gardner, Helen, 130;
her charming personality, 132-133
Gardner, John L., 379
Gardner, Mrs. John L., 267, 269, 377-380
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, at funeral of Victor Emmanuel, 168;
appeal to _Italia Irredenta_, 169;
and the Tiber Embankment, 169
Gay, Fannie. _See_ HOWE, MRS. HENRY MARION
Gay, Willard, 87
Gayarré, Judge Charles, 214
Gennadius, M., Minister of Greece to Great Britain, 145
George I, King of Greece, 190;
assassination of, 370
Germany, infiltration of Italy by, 170;
uneasiness in London over aggressiveness of, 233-234;
and the World War, 372;
ruthlessness of, 373;
conscious savagery of, 376;
and the _Lusitania_, 383-384;
and deportation of Belgians, 386-387;
declaration of war by United States against, 388
Gethsemane, Garden of, 186
Gilbert, William S., popularity of his light operas, 151, 152
Gilder, Richard Watson, 75
Gillette, William, 360-361
Gillow, Monsignore, 205
Gladstone, William Ewart, eloquence of, 140; 233;
“Female Suffrage” pamphlet, 235
Glass, Billy, the coachman, 14
_Gobbo_, Don R., the, 284-285
_Godey’s Magazine_, author’s first story appears in, 194
Goring, England, 312
Goschen, George, Jr., 197
Gosse, Edmund, a stanch friend in London, 142
Graham, Cunninghame, 326
Granada, 253-254
Grant, Nellie, author visits, in White House, 84
Grant, Judge Robert, 52
Grant, Patrick, 52
Grant, Rev. Percy, 317
Grant, President Ulysses S., and annexation of Santo Domingo, 83-84;
appoints S. G. Howe commissioner to Santo Domingo, 84;
and autograph collectors, 84-85;
renomination and election of, 108, 109;
banquet in London to, 146
Grant, Mrs. Ulysses S., invites author to visit White House, 84
Gray, Ellen, 54
Gray, Mrs. William, 54
Greece, visited, 190, 310
Greek Church in London, attends, 153
Greeley, Horace, 109
Green Peace, the home in South Boston, 11;
selection of the name, 30;
the garden, flowers and fruits, 31-32;
favorite dogs at, 32;
the house closed, 51;
return to, 123;
home life at, 123-124
Greene, Rev. Boley, 356
Greenough, Richard S., 258, 302
Gridley, Jeremy, a paternal ancestor, 35;
attorney-general of Province of Massachusetts Bay, 35
Gridley, Richard, a paternal ancestor, 35
“Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, 29
Griscom, Lloyd, American Ambassador to Italy, 322, 323, 327
Griscom, Mrs. Lloyd, 322, 334-335
Grosvenor Gallery, London, 144, 145
Guiccioli, Marchese, 300
Gurnee, Augustus, 183
Hading, Jane, in “L’Aventurière”, 281
Hague, The, 279
Hale, Edward Everett, 223, 309
Hall, David Prescott, 78;
engagement to Florence Howe, 81
Hall, Mrs. David Prescott, named for Florence Nightingale, 6; 34;
instructs author in arithmetic, 46;
engagement of, 79, 81;
marriage, 86;
completes life of Laura Bridgman, 314
“Hamlet”, 237
Hampden, Walter, in “Hippolytus”, 348
Hancock house, regret at demolition of the, 55
Handel and Haydn Society, 41, 309
Hansom cab, author’s liking for, 155, 156
Harcourt, Sir Vernon, 233, 299
Hare, Augustus J. C., 161
Harland, Henry, a brilliant conversationalist, 236
Harland, Mrs. Henry, 236
Harte, Francis Bret, 126;
at the Howe home, 127-128;
his wit and humor, 128
Harvard Musical Association, builds Boston Music Hall, 40-41
Hattori, Ichizo, commissioner at New Orleans Exposition, 210-211
Havana, 101-104
Hawthorne, Julian, personal appearance, 28;
effect of father’s reputation on, 29
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 26;
dislike for housework, 27;
“The Scarlet Letter”, 27;
influence of his writings on author’s childhood, 28;
his children, 28-29
Hawthorne, Una, at Lawton’s Valley, 28
Hay, John, 126, 127, 261
Hazard, Thomas, Vancluse summer home of, 111-114;
secures abolition of death penalty, 112;
a confirmed spiritualist, 113-114
Hedge, Rev. Frederick, 25
Helbig, Professor and Madame, 171, 173, 329
“Helena Ritchie”, Deland, 202
“Henry VIII”, 237
Herbert, Sir Arthur, 376-377
Higginson, Major Henry, 377
Higginson, Captain Frank, 188
Hill, Arthur, 361
Hilliard, Mrs., gives author music lessons, 47
Hilliard School, author attends, 47-48
“Hippolytus”, belated production of Mrs. Howe’s play, 347-348
Holidays in Italy, demoralizing effect of, 324
Holland, impressions of, 174, 279
Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, 146;
his favorite poems, 224;
putting up his first “shingle”, 224
Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell, 336
Homer, the birthplace of, 187
Horn, “Marm”, and her small shop, 48-49
Houghton, Lord, 144
“How They Lived at Hampton”, Hale, 223
Howard, George. _See_ CARLISLE, LORD
Howe, Anjie, the author’s cousin, 36
Howe, Edward Compton, author’s great-grandfather, 35;
a member of the Boston Tea Party, 35
Howe, Eliza, the author’s aunt, 36;
an able housekeeper, 36-37
Howe, Eliza, the author’s cousin, 36
Howe, Florence, the author’s sister. _See_ HALL, MRS. DAVID PRESCOTT
Howe, Henry Marion, the author’s brother, 6;
elation over the fall of Vicksburg, 21; 34;
graduation, 86;
student in steel works in Troy, 87;
engagement and marriage, 87;
death, 87 note
Howe, Mrs. Henry Marion, marriage, 87
Howe, Joseph, the author’s uncle, 36;
personal appearance, 36;
president of Sandwich Glass Co., 36;
his home, 36-38;
and Boston Theater, 38
Howe, Joseph Neals, the author’s grandfather, 35;
his ropewalk, 35
Howe, Julia, the author’s sister. _See_ ANAGNOS, MRS. MICHAEL
Howe, Julia Ward (the author’s mother), comment on Theodore
Parker’s request, 5;
her children, 6;
idea of discipline, 7;
author’s early classification of friends of, 14;
her “Reminiscences”, 15;
Henry James, the elder, and, 22;
and the Radical Club, 23;
and William R. Alger, 24;
choice of books for her children, 29;
and Green Peace, 31;
grief for death of little Sam, 33;
and the Music Hall organ, 41;
regard for her neighbors, 52-53;
and Francis Parkman, 53;
instills a love for music and art, 62-63;
in New York and Washington, 64-73;
a trip to Greece, 78-80;
and autograph
collectors, 85;
appeals for an International Peace Conference, 85;
letter from William H. Channing, 85-86;
in Santo Domingo, 91-99;
visits Cuba, 101-104;
trip to Europe, 106;
reception to President and Mrs. Grant, 109, 127;
Oak Glen summer home of, 117;
Porter’s crayon drawing of, 124;
and John Hay, 126;
home in Mt. Vernon Street, 127;
Bret Harte at home of, 127;
Town and Country Club, 129;
in Washington, 129;
her husband’s death, 134;
lecture trip through the West, 135, 136;
a trip to Europe, 138;
hospitality of London friends, 139;
and the _London World_, 143;
on the loyalty of English audiences, 151;
in Rome, 158-173;
daughter’s illness, 164;
and death of Victor Emmanuel II, 168;
through Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, 174-175;
profoundly moved by visit to Egypt and Palestine, 183-186;
in the Garden of Gethsemane, 186;
purchases a mummy, 189-190;
her welcome in Greece, 190-191;
comment on author’s first earnings, 194;
interest in Marion Crawford’s early work, 196;
winter home on Beacon Street, 198-199;
Chief of Woman’s Department of New Orleans Cotton Centennial, 204-216;
at brother’s grave in New Orleans, 213;
founds literary club in New Orleans, 214;
letter from author, 217;
visits author in Chicago, 222;
preaches at Church of the Disciples, 230-231;
again in London, 232-247;
appreciation of English friendships, 234;
letter from Mrs. Chant, 235;
letters from author, 249, 260, 265, 267, 271, 274-282;
visits author in Rome, 283-289;
organizes civic and literary clubs in Rome, 287;
Villegas’ portrait of, 288;
Anderson’s bust of, 288;
fondness for becoming dress, 289;
letter to author, 289;
letters from author, 290-294, 298-301, 302-307, 310-313,
314, 317-326, 327-329;
the beauty of her Italian speech, 383;
plea for the Americans, 341;
death, 346;
meetings in commemoration of and tributes to, 346-347;
belated production of her “Hippolytus”, 347;
influence on Roosevelt for woman suffrage, 350;
presentation of portrait of, to Bostonian Society, 359;
author’s remarkable dream of, 371
Howe, Laura E., the author’s sister. _See_ RICHARDS, MRS. HENRY
Howe, M. A. de Wolfe, 228
Howe, Maria, the author’s cousin, 36
Howe, Martha, the author’s cousin. _See_ PARKS, MRS. AUSTIN
Howe, Maud. _See_ ELLIOTT, MRS. JOHN
Howe, Samuel Gridley (the author’s father), and Parker’s request, 4;
founder and builder of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, 5;
his children, 6;
author’s first memory of, 6;
teaching author to tell the time, 7;
idea of discipline, 7;
good judge of character, 8;
education of Laura Bridgman, 10;
of restless temperament, 11;
and Fourth of July, 12-14;
friends and associates, 14-21;
and John Brown, 15-16;
intimacy with Sumner, 17;
and John A. Andrew, 17;
letters to Governor Andrew, 19, 20;
services under Andrew, 19-20;
one of the founders of the Sanitary Commission, 19-20;
and the death of Lincoln, 21;
life at Green Peace, 32;
a fine horseman, 32, 54;
letter describing his children, 34;
and McClellan, 58;
activities, 61;
his _sobriquet_ of “Chevalier”, 61;
reading aloud, 62;
an errand of mercy to Greece, 78-80;
chairman of Board of State Charities, 82-83;
commissioner for annexation of Santo Domingo, 84;
conflicting invitations to dinner, 85;
on domestic economy, 88;
letters to author, 89-90;
failure of annexation a disappointment to, 91;
revisits Santo Domingo, 91-99;
in Cuba, 101-104;
close companionship with author, 106;
and Grant’s reëlection, 108-109;
life at Portsmouth, 109-110;
sells Lawton’s Valley, 117;
purchase of Oak Glen, 117;
home in Mt. Vernon Street, 127;
his death and its influence on the author, 134;
memory cherished in Greece, 190, 191;
greatest achievement the education of Laura Bridgman, 228;
his daughter Laura’s memoir of, 330;
thoughts of a memorial to, 330
Howe, Samuel Gridley, Junior (the author’s brother), 5;
author’s first memory of, 6-7;
born at Green Peace, 33;
early death of, 33
Howells, William Dean, 226
Hubbard, Miss, in charge of Miss Wilby’s School, 58
Hubbard, Wilfranc, 325, 326
“Huggermuggers and Kobbletozo, The”, 29
“Humor and Philosophy of Woman Suffrage in England”, lecture by Samuels, 381
Hunker, Lieutenant John J., 188
“Hunkers”, 57
Hunt, Richard, 115, 116, 367, 368
Hunt, William M., 6;
studio of, 23;
author’s recollections of, 118-119;
home at Readville, 118;
frescoes in the Capitol at Albany, 119;
feeling toward Boston, 120;
studio first home of Art Association of Newport, 367-368;
studio acquired by John Elliott, 388-389
Huntress, Miss, 355
Hurlburt, William Henry, 266, 268
Hutchinson, Dr. Woods, 365
Iddings, Mr. and Mrs., 302
Ignazio, gardener at Palazzo Rusticucci, 320-321
“Imagination in Business”, Deland, 203
“In Darkest England”, Booth, 242
Indiana Place Chapel, first home of the Church of the Disciples, 47
International Peace Conference, Mrs. Howe’s appeal for an, 85
“Iron Chest, The”, first tragedy seen by author, 39
“Iron Woman, The”, Deland, 202
Irving, Sir Henry, preferred in melodrama and farce by author, 151; 237
Irving, Washington, and the Alhambra, 254
Irwin, Robert, 178
Ismaïl Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, 177;
visit to wives of, 179-181;
ball given by, 181, 183;
personal appearance, 181;
his creditable administration, 182;
deposed, 183
Italian Relief in World War, work for, 387
Italy, disappointment in Congress of Berlin in 1878, 169;
German infiltration of, 170;
birth of modern, 331;
ties that bind United States and, 331-332
J. _See_ ELLIOTT, JOHN
Jackson, Patrick, 52
Jaffa, landing at, 184; 274
James, Arthur Curtis, 388
James, Henry (the elder), valued friend of Mrs. Howe, 22;
ranked as chief of “The Owls”, 22;
personal appearance, 22;
a “Roland for his Oliver”, 22-23;
writes of his childhood, 60
James, Mrs. Henry, 23
James, Henry (the younger), news of death of, 3;
characteristic utterance of, 3;
celebrates birthday at Palazzo Rusticucci, 3; 22;
studied art under William M. Hunt, 23; 60;
at Lawton’s Valley, 115;
author meets, in first London visit, 139, 140;
at Henry Harland’s home, 236;
wearies of London life, 237;
opinion of Mrs. Howe’s “Reminiscences”, 294;
his cure for lumbago, 305;
letter from, 307-308;
in failing health, 347; 368
James, Mrs. Robertson, 23
James, William, 22;
studied art under William M. Hunt, 23; 368
_Jeannette_, DeLong’s arctic expedition and the, 99-100
Jennings, Louis, 143, 257
Jerusalem, 185, 187
“Jessups”, a favorite schoolgirl confection, 49
“Jocko, the Brazilian”, first play seen by author, 38-39
Johnson, Hiram, 364, 365-366
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 387
Jones, William Safford, 370
Jouett, Admiral, 209
Kaiser, The. _See_ WILLIAM II, EMPEROR OF GERMANY
Kalopothakis, Mr., appreciation of author’s father, 190
Kane, Captain, 209
_Kansas City Star_, 260
Kehew, Mrs., Progressive meeting at home of, 361
Kellar, Frances, 358
Keller, Helen, 228
Kemp, Miss, 299, 300
Kendal, Mr. and Mrs., 237
Kendall, William Sargeant, 351, 352, 369
Kenmare, Lady, 287, 294, 297
Kent, Alice, schoolmate of the author, 58;
a professional reader, 58
Key West, Florida, 104, 105
Kindergarten for the Blind, 228
King, Mrs. William W., Creole dinner at home of, 205;
hospitality of, 207
“King of the Golden River, The”, Ruskin, 29
Knox, Philander C., Secretary of State, 340
Labatt, Madame, 285
Ladysmith, siege of, 297
La Farge, John, 23, 195, 368
Lafayette, 15
Lafayette Escadrille, the, 389
Lanciani, Rudolpho, 166
Langdon, Professor Courtney, 360
Langen Schwalbach, 275, 276
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 334, 335
Langtry, Mrs., the “Jersey Lily”, 146, 147;
Watts’ portrait of, 239
Lansdowne, Lady, 296
Lawson, Gladys and Marion, in Europe with author, 310-312
Lawton’s Valley, Rhode Island, summer home at, 11; 114;
charades at, 115; 380
Lectures, author’s first course of, 218
Lehmann, Mrs., author entertained by, 141;
meets Browning at home of, 141
Lehmann, Rudolph, 141
Leighton, Sir Frederick, and the Royal Academy, 145
Leiter, Mary, 222
Leiter, Mrs., 220
Leo XIII, 260;
pilgrimages to jubilee of, 295; 303
Liberali, Doctor, 164
“Life and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe”, Richards, 330
Lincoln, President Abraham, 19, 21
Lincoln, Mrs. Roland, 227
Lind, Jenny, 40
Liszt, Abbé Franz, 161, 162
“Little Rudy”, Andersen, 29
Liverpool, 139
“Locandiera”, 284
Locomotive, thrilling experience of driving a, 136
Lodge, Senator Henry Cabot, 336, 340;
lunch with, 344;
on nominating Roosevelt in 1912, 344
Lodge, Mrs. Henry Cabot, 336, 344
London, first visit to, 139;
charm of first season in, 141;
fashions in dress, 146;
aesthetic movement in, 147;
statesmen in social life of, 150;
opera and theater in, 150-152;
hansom cabs and busses in, 155;
in the Nineties, 232-247;
again in 1896, 280;
and the close of the Boer War, 298
_London Times_, 325, 326
_London World, The_, 142, 143
Long, John D., 359
Longfellow, Alice, 290
Longfellow, Edith, 290
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 196;
an early call on, 199-200
“Looking Backward”, Bellamy, 223
“Lorenzacchio”, 300
Loring, Dr. Frank, 130
Loring, General, 177
Lothrop, Dr., 52
Loudon, John, 291, 293;
Minister from the Low Countries to the United States, 343-344, 349
Loudon, Mrs. John, 343-344;
gives dinner in author’s honor, 349
Louisburg Square, favorite playground in school days, 49-50
_Louisville Courier Journal_, 210, 267
Lowry, Jenny, 129
Loyson, Paul, 288, 290, 294
Lucca, Madame de, 306
Ludwig II, the mad King and his palaces, 277
_Lusitania_, the, and the American flag, 382;
torpedoing of, 383-384
“Lyons Mail, The”, Irving in, 151
McAllister, Julia G., the author’s cousin, 176, 182, 184, 185;
writes of mummy bought, 189
McClellan, General George B., visits Boston, 58
MacDonald, Alexander, 19
MacDonald, Mrs. Margaret, 4
McEnery, Governor, of Louisiana, 204
MacKaye, Captain Donald, of s. s. _Parthia_, 138
McLaren, Eva, 234
MacVeagh, Franklin, Secretary of Treasury, 339-342
MacVeagh, Wayne, 256;
and Fourth of July in Rome, 265; 268
MacVeagh, Mrs. Wayne, 268
Madison Square Garden, rally of Progressive Party in, 364
Madrid, Spain, 318-320
“Magda”, 284
Mailliard, Adolph, the author’s uncle, 74-76
Mailliard, Mrs. Adolph, the author’s aunt, letter from author’s father to, 34;
a visit to, 74-76;
in California, 200
_Maine_, U. S. s. s., destruction of the, 285
Malbone, Edward, 368-369
Mallock, William H., 143, 259
“Mammon”, the author’s story, 218
“The Man Without a Shadow”, Chamisso, 226, 227
Mansfield, Richard, in London, 150, 151;
requests author to write a play, 226;
in “Beau Brummel”, 228-229
Mapleson Opera Company, 215
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, 206-207
Margherita, Queen, of Italy, 161, 173;
audience with, 261-263; 264;
visits John Elliott’s studio, 300-301;
lover and patron of art, 301;
gift of jewel to author by, 303; 328
Mariette Bey, 177, 178
Marina Grande, the, Capri, 292
“Marius, the Epicurean”, Pater, 218
Mark Twain. _See_ CLEMENS, SAMUEL L.
Marks, Josephine Peabody, 377
Marlowe, Julia, 229, 388
Marsh, George Perkins, first Minister of United States to United Italy, 160;
important services of, 161
Marzials, Theodore, composer, 236
Mason, Miss, 302
Massimo, Duchess, 301
Matanzas, Cuba, 103
Matsura, our Japanese servant, 371
Matthews, Nathan, Mayor of Boston, 227
“May Blossom”, author’s first story in _Godey’s Magazine_, 194
_Mayflower_, the _America’s_ cup and the, 148
“Merchant of Venice, The”, Booth and Modjeska in, 224-225; 237
Merrill, Mr., 370
“Messenger, The”, painting by Watts, 239-240
Messina, destroyed by earthquake of 1908, 326
Mexico, rumor of war with, 371
Meyer, George von L., Secretary of the Navy, 339, 340
Milldam, the, 54
Miller, Joaquin, 214, 215
Millet, Frank, 352
Mills, Sir Arthur, lifelong friend of Mrs. Howe, 155
Mills, Major Dudley, 155
Milnes, Monckton. _See_ HOUGHTON, LORD
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 136
Missions in Europe and the East, talk on the, 359
Mitchell, Julius, 360, 365
Modjeska, Helena, as _Portia_, 224, 225; 268
Monks, George, 44
Montefiori, Sir Moses, 153, 154
Monti, Signor Luigi, 332
Morehead, Colonel, 204
Morocco, visit to, 249-252
Morris, Harrison, 351
Morris, William, 145
Mt. Vernon Street, a favorite playground in school days, 49-50;
Number 32, 127;
Number 129, 195
“Mr. Isaacs”, the writing of, by Crawford, 197;
its success, 197
Mummy, Mrs. Howe’s purchase of a, 189-190
Munthe, Dr. Axel, 291
Murillo, his finest paintings in Seville, 254-255
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Porter’s portrait of author in, 125;
a student at the, 194;
opening of the Evans’ addition to, 381
Music, early lessons in, 47-48;
mother teaches a love for good, 62
Mycenae, excavations at, 191
_Nantasket_, U. S. s. s., 92, 97
Naples, 302, 320
Naples, Bay of, 292
National Club, proposed for membership in, 223
National Gallery, London, 144
New England Woman’s Club, 135;
talk on Roman experiences at the, 310
_New Hampshire_, U. S. s. s., 105
Newlands, Edith, 349
Newlands, Senator, 349
New Orleans, extended visit in, 204;
opening of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 204-205;
quaintness of old quarter of, 206;
the Twelfth Night Revelers in, 206;
the Mardi Gras, 206-207;
social life and hospitality in, 207-214;
close of the Exposition, 215
New Orleans Cotton Centennial Exposition, 204-216
_New Orleans Times Democrat_, 260
Newport, Rhode Island, 109-117; 128
“Newport Aquarelle, The”, the author’s, 197
Newport Art Association, 352. _See also_ ART ASSOCIATION OF NEWPORT
Newport County Suffrage League, 356
Newport County Woman’s Progressive League, 355
Newport Historical Society, 386-387
Newport Reading Room, 110
New York, first visit to, 64-71;
Suffrage parade in, 353;
great Progressive rally in, 364
_New York Times_, 387, 388
_New York Tribune_, 195
_New York World_, 195
Niagara Falls, 136
Nightingale, Florence, 6, 15, 294
Nile, trip up the river, 272, 273
Nilsson, Christine, 42
“Norma”, first opera seen by author, 39
Normandy, and the mystery of the Druid stones, 174
Northcote, Sir Stafford, 140
Norton, Mr. and Mrs., 283, 284
Norton, Richard, 287, 310
Nott, George William, 208
Novelli, 333
Nubians, author impressed by beauty of the, 273
Oak Glen, purchase of, 117;
Crawford writes “Mr. Isaacs” at, 197;
first telephone message received at, 198
“Oberon”, author at rehearsal of, 43
O’Connell, Monsignor, 260
Odeschalchi, Palazzo, the Terrys’ home in Rome, 158;
open house at the, 159-161;
author’s illness in, 164-165
Old State House, Boston, Mrs. Howe’s portrait in the, 355, 359
Olga, Queen, of Greece, 190;
audience with, 311
Opera, fondness for, 43
Orvieto, convalescence at, 165, 166
Osterauer, Fraulein, pianist, 42
O’Sullivan, Judge, 92
“Our American Cousin”, Sothern as _Lord Dundreary_ in, 121
_Outlook, The_, 324, 350
“Owls, The”, early designation of her mother’s friends, 14; 21-29
“Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag”, 392
Page, Thomas Nelson, 349
Palestine, Mrs. Howe and the visit to, 184, 185;
traveling in, 184, 185;
a trip through, 274, 275
Palmer, Mrs. Potter, mural decorations in home of, 217;
rare gift of leadership, 219; 261, 262
Pans, The, literary society in New Orleans founded by Mrs. Howe, 214
Papanti, Lorenzo, first meeting with, 56;
his manner of teaching, 56-57
Papanti’s Dancing Academy, author attends, 55-57
Parepa-Rosa, Madame, in “Oberon”, 43
Paris, in 1895, 271;
decadence of the theater in, 272;
in 1896, 281
Park, Maud Wood, 381
Parker, Theodore, unique request of, 4-5; 15, 29
Parker Memorial, 225
Parkman, Francis, 53;
funeral of, 231
Parks, Mrs. Austin, the author’s cousin, 36;
her children, 36
Parks, Lilian, second-cousin of the author, 36
Parks, Dr. Luther, 52
Parks, Maud, second-cousin and intimate of the author, 36
Parks, William, second-cousin of the author, 36
Parnell, Charles Stewart, amusing incident in first meeting with, 140
Partenkirchen, 276, 277
Parthenon, the, 311
_Parthia_, s. s., to Europe on the, 138
Patti, Adelina, 151
Paul, Miss, an early teacher, 47
Peabody, Elizabeth, her sobriquet, 26;
popularity, 26;
philosophical view of life, 26-27;
author attends kindergarten of, 46;
and the Boston Fire, 108
Peace between United States and Great Britain,
one hundredth anniversary of, 382
Pearse, Mrs., 286
People’s Forum, Providence, 374
Perkins, Charles C., 40
Perkins, George Hamilton, 212-213; 271
Perkins, Isabel. _See_ ANDERSON, MRS. LARZ
Perkins Institution for the Blind, author born at, 4;
founded and built by author’s father, 5;
interior of, 4;
the steward of the, 8-9;
Laura Bridgman educated at, 10;
exhibition day at, 10-11; 228
“Peter Ibbetson”, Du Maurier, 261
Philadelphia, 135
“Phil Owens,” the author’s story, 218
Pilgrims, in Rome, 295
“Pinafore”, 152
Pinchot, Gifford, 343
Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, 337
Pius IX, Pope, mortal illness of, 168
“Plea for Humor”, Mrs. Howe’s, 287
Poetry, a love for, 62
Point of Pines, rally of Progressive Party at, 354
Porter, Benjamin Curtis, work as a portrait painter, 124-126;
portraits of Laura Howe and the author, 124, 125
Porter, General Horace, secretary to President Grant, 84
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, the Howes’ summer home at, 11, 109-117
Potter, Mrs. James Brown, 207, 233
Pratt, Minnie, 323
Pre-Raphaelite group of artists, 146
Preston, Mr., 223
Pretyman, William, interior decorator of note, 221;
his home and hospitality, 221-222
Pretyman, Mrs. William, 221-222
“Primavera”, 284
Prince, Morton, 44
Prince, Norman, 389
“Prince Karl,” Mansfield in, 151
Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), 139, 147
Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra), 139, 147-148
_Princessen Cecile_, 381
Progressive National Service, and work for Pinchot for senator, 373
Progressive Party, interest in, 345;
first Massachusetts rally of, 354;
in charge of woman’s part in, in Rhode Island, 355;
Newport County Woman’s League of, 355;
well organized in Massachusetts, 355;
meeting in Providence of, 356;
“Flying Squadron” of, 357, 362;
meetings in New York of, 358;
new State headquarters in Providence of, 360;
meeting in Providence’s “Little Italy” of, 361-362;
Rhode Island campaign of, 362-363;
great New York rally of, 364
Public Garden, Boston, 54
Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo, 92
Purdy Bey, 177
Putnam, John Pickering, 223
“Pygmalion and Galatea”, 151
Pyramid of Gizeh, ascent of the great, 178
Quilting parties, for war relief, 389
Quirinal, Palace of the, 168, 256, 261
Rabé, Baroness Erich von, the author’s cousin, 167;
a brilliant and gifted woman, 167
Radical Club, The, 23
Raymond, Dr. Rossiter, tribute to Henry Marion Howe, 87
“Recollections of Tristan and Isolde”, 223
Reeves, Sims, the people’s idol in London, 151
Reggio, earthquake of 1908 in Italian province of, 326
“Reminiscences”, of Julia Ward Howe, 284, 289
Republican National Convention of 1912, 353
“Rhapsodie Hongroise”, Liszt’s playing of his, 162
Rhodes, Cecil, memorial to, 241; 297
Richards, Alice, in London with author, 232
Richards, General John, 374
Richards, Henry, 82
Richards, Laura, first sight of her sister Maud,
4; 6, 34, 78, 79, 80, 82, 86, 123;
Porter’s portrait of, 124; 198;
memoir of her father, 330;
letter from author, 339-343
Richmond, Mrs., 358
Riddle, George, 44-45
Riis, Jacob, 356, 364
“Rising Tide, The”, Deland, 202
Ristori, Madame Adelaide, 172, 333
Roberts, Lord, 234
“Roma Beata”, the author’s, 314
Roman fever, severe attack of, 164-165
“Rome”, Zola, 281
Rome, winter of 1878-1879 in, 158-173;
Christmas Eve in, 158;
the Forum, 161;
political parties in, 162-163;
fever in, 164;
the Tiber Embankment, 169;
growth of German influence in, 170;
in 1894, 256;
in 1896, 275;
last visit of Mrs. Howe to, 283-289;
again in, 320-328
Roosevelt, Quentin, 389
Roosevelt, Theodore, reception in Sicily to, 332-333;
Lodge on advisability of nominating, 344;
urged to allow use of his name, 345;
author’s belief in, 345;
and memorial meeting for Mrs. Howe, 346-347;
calls on author, 347;
an interview with, 349-350;
and woman suffrage, 350;
announces candidacy for nomination, 350;
at first rally in Massachusetts, 354;
attempted assassination of, 359;
at great rally in New York, 364, 373;
on deportation of Belgians, 387;
the passing of, 389-390;
memorial meeting and resolution adopted, 390
Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore, 389
Root, John, and Chicago’s Dream City, 221;
untimely death, 221
Root, Mrs. John, 220
Rosebery, Lord, 140, 148, 233
Rosilio, Spanish painter, 319
Rothschild, Sir Anthony de, 148, 149, 154
Rothschild, Constance de. _See_ FLOWER, MRS. CYRIL
Rothschild, Lady de, 149, 150
“Rovers of Boston, The”, the author’s school-day secret society, 50-51; 55
Royal Academy, London, 145;
and Benjamin West, 146;
Sargent’s portraits at, 233
Royce, Professor Josiah, 223, 225
Rubinstein, Madam Anton, 323
Rublee, Mrs., 355
Russian bogey, the, in England, 140
Russo-Japanese War, 317
Rusticucci, Palazzo, 3, 263;
our home in, 264-265;
the terrace at, 265;
preparations for leaving, 299;
dismantling the terrace, 299
Ryder, Albert, 195
Sabatier, Paul, 288, 293
Safe, Mrs. Shaw, 376
Sage, Mrs. George, 32
“St. Francis of Assisi”, Sabatier, 268
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, and the Shaw Memorial, 195; 337
“St. John’s Eve in Rome”, the author’s article, 314
_St. Paul Dispatch_, 267
St. Peter’s, Rome, 158, 159, 260, 261, 295
Salvation Army, its work in London, 242-247;
author’s first interest in, 247
Salvini, Tommaso, in “Saul”, 268; 333, 362
Samuels, Mr., 381
San Cristoval, Santo Domingo, 96, 97
Sandwich Glass Company, 36, 38
Sanitary Commission, The, Doctor Howe one of the founders of, 20
Santa Croce, Palazzo, temporary home in, 258;
a gruesome discovery in, 259;
the studio in, 259
Santo Domingo, commission for annexation of, 84;
treaty of annexation rejected, 91;
a visit to, 91-99;
beauty of the country, 93;
earthquake in, 98
Sargent, John Singer, 224, 229;
his portraits at the Royal Academy, 233
Saturday Evening Club, 309
“Scarlet Letter, The”, Hawthorne, 27, 28
Schley, Admiral Winfield Scott, 100-101
Schliemann, Dr. Heinrich, 191, 192
Schliemann, Mrs. Heinrich, 191;
her priceless gift to Mrs. Howe, 192
Schurz, Senator Carl, 130
Scotland, a trip through, 280-281
“Sdrawkcab”, mystic language of the Howe children, 34, 36
Seaman, Major Louis Livingston, 387
Sears, J. Montgomery, 229
Sedgwick, Theodora, 23
Seeley, Sir John R., 152, 234
Seville, visit to, 253;
High Mass in the cathedral of, 318
Shaw Memorial, Saint-Gaudens and the, 195
Shehadi, Mr., 362
Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo, 176
_Shylock_, Booth as, 225
Sicily, the great earthquake of 1908 in, 326-329;
the Elliotts active in relief work in, 327-328;
welcome to Roosevelt in, 332-333
“Sicily in Shadow and in Sun”, the author’s, 327
Sidney Luska. _See_ HARLAND, HENRY
“Silvia”, a ballet for the Suffrage cause, 381
Singleton, Mrs. _See_ CURRIE, LADY
Slocumb, Mrs., 208
Smibert, John, 369
Smith, Miss Leigh, 288, 294, 299
Smyrna, 186
Snell, George, architect of Boston Music Hall, 40, 124
Society of Portrait Painters, London, 233
Somerset, Lady Henry, 235
“Sorcerer, The”, Gilbert and Sullivan’s first opera, 151
Sorrentine peninsula, a trip around the, 275
Sorrento, Bishop of, opinion of Crawford’s Italian, 269
Sorrento, visits the Crawfords in, 269
Sothern, Edward A., his principal rôles, 121, 122;
personal charm of, 122;
comment in author’s journal concerning, 122, 123
Spain, a week in, 253-255;
the war with, 287;
visit to, 317-320
Spartali, Marie. _See_ STILLMAN, MRS. WILLIAM
Spencer, Mrs. Lorillard, 382
Sphinx, the, by moonlight, 178, 179
Spruce Street, Boston, home in, 195
Stackpole, Mrs. Louis, 223
Stanley, Algernon, 154, 155
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, Dean of Westminster, 152;
his home, 153
Stanley, Sir Henry M., 241-242
Stanley, Lyulph, an advocate of higher education, 154
Stanley, Rosamond. _See_ CARLISLE, LADY
Star and Garter, Richmond, dinner at the, 143
Stepniak, Sergius, 226, 227
Stetson, Charles Walter, 195
Stillman, William, correspondent of the _London Times_ in Rome, 261
Stillman, Mrs. William, 261, 287
Stone, Charles Pomeroy. _See_ STONE PASHA
Stone Pasha, chief of staff to the Khedive of Egypt, 176-177
Strauss, Oscar, 364
Strong, George, 121
Stuart, Gilbert, 368
Sucillio, Don Antonio, 253, 254
Sullivan, Sir Arthur S., popularity of his light operas, 151, 152
Summer in Rome, 266
Sumner, Charles, friendship with the Howes, 17;
and McClellan, 58; 85;
opposition to annexation of Santo Domingo, 91;
funeral of, 133
Surgical Dressings Committee, 389
Swing, Rev. David, 218
Switzerland, visit to, 175
Synagogue, at service in Hebrew, 153
Tableaux, at German Embassy in Rome, 170-173
Taft, President William Howard, author meets, at Cabinet meeting, 341;
tribute to Miss Boardman, 341;
comment on Roosevelt, 349;
renominated in 1912, 353
Tale, Signor, 171, 172
Tangier, the landing at, 249;
passing the customhouse in, 249;
sights and sounds in, 250-251;
interview with the Sharifa of, 251-252
“Tanglewood Tales, The”, Hawthorne, author’s fondness for, 28
“Taras Bulba”, Gogol, 218
Teatro Verdi, Progressive Party meeting in the, 361-362; 365
Telephone, at Oak Glen, 198;
first message announces death of Garfield, 198;
_motif_ for plays, poems, and novels, 198
“Telephone Song”, poem by Laura E. Richards, 198
Temple, Minnie, 23
Tennis tournament, Newport, 354
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 142;
quoted, 335-336
Teresa, Suora, 164
Terry, Dr. and Mrs., 361
Terry, Arthur, the author’s cousin, 167
Terry, Ellen, most popular actress in London in 1877, 151; 237-238
Terry, Luther, the author’s uncle, 167, 259, 267
Terry, Mrs. Luther (Louisa Crawford _née_ Ward),
the author’s aunt, a visit to, in Rome, 158;
her home in Palazzo Odescalchi, 158, 159-160;
her kindness and generosity, 166-167;
first marries Thomas Crawford, 167;
her family, 167; 195;
anxiety for her son Marion’s future, 167;
death, 283
Terry, Margaret. _See_ CHANLER, MRS. WINTHROP
Tetrazzini, operatic soprano, 293
Tewfik Pasha, son of the Khedive of Egypt, 181, 182
Tewksbury Almshouse, visit to, 83
Thanksgiving Day, in Ashburton Place, 37-38;
in Rome, in 1907, 322-323
Thayer, Eugene V. R., 184
Thayer, William Roscoe, 387
Théâtre Français, 271
Theodoli, Marchesa, called the most beautiful woman in Rome, 160
“There’s a Long, Long Trail”, 392
_Thistle_, Lord Dunraven’s yacht, the, 147-148
Tiber Embankment, the, 169, 298
Tilden, Mrs. Linzee, schoolmate of the author, 58
“Tipperary”, 392
_Titanic_, sinking of the, 352
Tompkins, Orlando, the well-known pharmacist and friend of Booth, 39
Topp, Adelaide, girl pianist, 42
Town and Country Club, Newport, 129
_Tribune_, New York, 109
Triple Alliance, the, 163, 169
Trobriand, General P. R. de, 208
Tuttle, Mr., 355, 356
Twelfth Night Revelers, New Orleans, 206
Twentieth Century, celebration in Rome of dawn of, 295;
a second “dawn” of the, in Boston, 309
Twentieth Century Club, 309
“Twickenham Ferry”, Marzial’s singing of his, 236
“Two in Italy”, the author’s, 314
_Two Sisters, The_, Captain Anthony’s catboat, 110
_Tybee_, s. s., and trip to Santo Domingo, 91, 92
Umberto I, King of Italy, 169, 256, 261, 264;
assassination of, 303-304;
his fearlessness, 304-305
Upham, Dr. Baxter, 40
Urquhart, Cora. _See_ POTTER, MRS. JAMES BROWN
Urso, Camillo, 42
Van Allen, Rev. W. H., 353
Vandervelde, Madame, 377
Vannah, Kate, 225
“Varieties of Religious Experience”, James, 313
Vars, Mr., 358
Vatican Palace, 168, 270, 295
Vaucluse, happy days at, 111-114
Vaughan, Dean, sermons by, 152
Velasquez, Madrid and the paintings of, 254
Venice, with Mrs. Gardner in, 269
Vesuvius, Mount, changes in contour of, 320
Vickers, Mr., 321
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 161;
his martial appearance, 162;
death, 168;
funeral of, 168
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, 303
Victoria, Queen, 139, 281
Villaggio Regina Elena, American-built village for earthquake sufferers, 327
Villamarina, Marchesa, 303
Villegas, Signor José, Spanish painter of note, 264, 268;
his portrait of Mrs. Howe, 288; 294, 299;
at the Madrid home of, 318;
portrait of King of Spain by, 319-320;
his love for his art, 320
Villegas, Signora, 264, 318
Violet Fane. _See_ CURRIE, LADY
Voters’ League, speaks on report of the, 374
W., Lady, 290
Wade, Benjamin F., commissioner on annexation of Santo Domingo, 84
Wales, Thomas B., the author’s uncle, 13, 34, 108
Wales, Mrs. Thomas B., the author’s Aunt Jeannette, 13, 34-35;
and the Boston Fire, 108
Ward, Annie. _See_ MAILLIARD, MRS. ADOLPH
Ward, Francis Marion, the author’s uncle, grave of, 213
Ward, Henry, cousin of Julia Ward Howe, 66-67
Ward, Mrs. Henry, widow of Julia Ward Howe’s uncle, 66-67
Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 237
Ward, John, uncle of Julia Ward Howe, visit to, 64;
his New York home, 64
Ward, Maddie. _See_ CHANLER, MRS. WINTHROP
Ward, Marquand, 389
Ward, Richard, uncle of Julia Ward Howe, 64
Ward, Samuel, the author’s uncle, 68;
lovable personality and generosity of, 68-69;
his autograph sought by King George V, 76-77; 129, 130, 132;
suggests writing of “Mr. Isaacs” to Crawford, 197;
and Beacon Street home for Mrs. Howe, 198;
friendship with Longfellow, 199-200;
sends author to California, 200;
death, 216
Warner, Charles Dudley, 214
Warren, Henry, 44
Washington, D. C., first visit to, 71-73; 129-133;
in 1910, 331;
changes in, 336;
in 1912, 343-344
_Washington Post_, 343
Washington’s Birthday, in Santo Domingo, 94-95
“Water Babies”, Kingsley, 29
Watson, Francis Sedgwick, classmate of the author, 46
Watterson, Henry, at luncheon on U. S. s. s. _Tennessee_, 209;
impression made by, 210
Watts, George Frederick, 145;
portrait of Mrs. Langtry, 147;
and his wife Ellen Terry, 238;
luncheon with, 238;
his pictures, 238-239;
“The Messenger”, 239-240;
his method of work, 240;
equestrian statue “Physical Energy”, 240-241
Wauchope, Miss, 300
Wazzan, Madame, the famous Sharifa of Tangier, 251-252
Webster, Mrs. Hamilton Fish, 387
Weisbaden, 275
Weld, Theodore, a favorite teacher, 58
Wendell, Edith, 227
Wendte, Mr., 389
West, author’s first trip through the, 136
West, Benjamin, Royal Academy largely due to, 146
West, Mrs. Cornwallis, 147
Westminster Abbey, 152
Weston, Colonel Hunter, a hero of the Boer War, 297, 298
Weyler, Don Antonio, 319
Whipple, Edwin Percy, essayist and lecturer, 25
Whistler, James A. McNeill, 145
White, Andrew D., commissioner on annexation of Santo Domingo, 84
White, Henry, American Ambassador, 322, 343
White House, Washington, a week in the, 83-85
Wiggins, Betty, 348
Wilby, Miss, author attends school of, 58-59
William II, Emperor of Germany, cartoons of, 234; 275, 276;
quoted, 376;
his cynicism, 376
Williams, Henry, author attends school of, 46-47
Williams, Senator John Sharp, 352
Wilson, Henry, nominated and elected Vice-President, 108, 109
Wilson, James, Secretary of Agriculture, 341-342
Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Rivers, 177
Wilson, Woodrow, election of, 366;
and the administration of the Philippines, 382; 387
“With Booth in Darkest England”, author’s lecture on Salvation Army work, 247
“With the Allies”, Davis, 380
Woman Suffrage, Roosevelt’s article on, 350;
banner for, parade, 353
_Woman’s Journal_, 352
World politics, awakening interest in, 106
World War, outbreak of the, 372;
effect on America of, 372, 390;
America in, 387-388;
work for welfare of service men during the, 391-392
World’s Parliament of Religion, Mrs. Howe prominent in, 222
Wormley’s Hotel, Washington, 72-73, 129
Wright, Miss, 335
Wright, Wilbur, 335
Yates, Edmund, his wit and humor, 142, 143;
the Howe’s entertained by, 143;
success in journalism, 143; 256
Young Men’s Christian Association, Providence, 359-360
Zerrahn, Carl, 41
Zola, Émile, his “Débâcle”, 268;
how he wrote his “Rome”, 281-282
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Journals and letters of Samuel Gridley Howe.
[2] Dr. Henry Marion Howe died in May, 1922.
[3] An old friend of my mother’s, once the beautiful Anna Shaw.
[4] Please give me as to this the first gleam of a possible
announcement.
[5] “Life and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe,” by Laura E. Richards.
Estes and Lauriat, Boston.
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
about than Ismail=> about than Ismaïl {pg 182}
I remember Ismail Pasha=> I remember Ismaïl Pasha {pg 182}
April 23. Louisana Day=> April 23. Louisiana Day {pg 211}