Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward,asked to write her reminiscences,1;birth and parentage,3,4;brothers and sisters,4,5;early indication of inaptness with tools,7;travels to Niagara,8,9;childish incidents,7-10;her mother's death,10;early education,13,14;musical training,16,17;seclusion of her home,18;first ball,29;acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson,41,42;leaves school: studies German with Dr. Cogswell,43;reviews Lamartine's "Jocelyn,"44;manner of living at home,47;her social intercourse restricted,48;feelings on the death of her father,52;his guidance of,53;effect of her brother Henry's death,54;her studies,56-63;in chemistry,56;in French and Italian,57;literary work, dramas and lyrics,57,58;reading,58;German studies,59;further literary work, essays and poems,60,61;religious growth,62;first dinner party,64;her attire: bridesmaid at her brother's wedding,65;fear of lightning,78;social opportunities,78,79;spends the summer of 1841 near Boston: visits the Perkins Institution,81;sees Dr. Howe,82;her memoir of Dr. Howe for the blind,83;engagement and marriage,88;voyage to Europe,89-91;entertained in London,92-110;in Scotland,111;in Dublin,112;visits Miss Edgeworth,113;the poet Wordsworth,115;at Vienna,118;at Milan,119;arrival in Rome,121;birth of eldest daughter,128;leaves Rome,133;returns to England,133-135;visits Atherstone,136,137;sees the Nightingales,138;goes to Lea Hurst,139;Salisbury,139-143;her travesty of Dr. Howe's letter,142;attends Theodore Parker's meetings,150;life in South Boston,151,152;in Washington,178;second trip abroad,188;reaches Rome,191;returns to America,204;studious nature,205;ideas on Christianity,206-208;work in Latin,209;philosophical studies,210-213;housekeeping trials,214-217;free-soil preferences,219;at Count Gurowski's death-bed,226;her "Passion Flowers" published,228;her "Words of the Hour" and "The World's Own" published,230;trip to Cuba,231;parting with Theodore Parker,233,234;her book about the Cuban trip,236;writes for the "New York Tribune,"236,237;requested by Booth to write a play,237;disappointed at its nonappearance,240;attends James Freeman Clarke's meetings,245;helps Dr. Howe edit "The Commonwealth,"253;sees John Brown,254;goes on some trips with Gov. and Mrs. Andrew,266;visits Washington in 1861,269;first attempt at public speaking,271;meets Abraham Lincoln,272;how she came to write the "Battle Hymn,"273-275;takes part in the Bryant celebration,277-280;her papers before the Radical Club,287;pleasantry with Dr. Hedge,297;increasing desire to write and speak,304,305;gives parlor lectures at her home,306;repeats the course in Washington,308,309;various philosophical papers and essays,310;reads a paper on "Polarity" before the Radical Club,and one on "Ideal Causation" to the Parker Fraternity,311;interested in calling the first convention of woman ministers,312;starts for Greece,313;arrival in Athens,314;distributes clothes to the Cretan refugees,316-318;returns to Boston: conducts the Cretan Bazaar,320;lectures in Newport and Boston,321,322;starts a woman's peace crusade,328;holds meetings to advance the cause in New York,329;visits England to organize a Woman's Peace Congress,329;speaks at the banquet of the Unitarian Association,331;her Sunday afternoon meetings at Freemasons' Tavern,331,332;meets Mrs. Grey,333;visits Prof. Seeley,335;is constrained to apply her energy to the woman's club movement,336;her peace addresses in England, where made,337;asked to attend the Peace Congress in Paris,338;attends a Prison Reform meeting,339;her speech there,340;holds a final meeting to further her peace crusade in London,341;goes to Santo Domingo with Dr. Howe,349;holds religious services for the negroes there,350-352;visits a girls' school,352;invited to speak to a secret Bible society,353;every-day life there,357,358;invited to a state dinner by President Baez,360;her second visit to Santo Domingo,360;her difficulties in riding horseback,362;her interest in the emancipation of woman takes more definite form,372,373;attends the meeting to found the New England Woman's Club,374;joins the woman suffrage movement,375;her efforts for that cause,376;gains experience,377;trips to promote the cause,379-381;at legislative hearings,381-384;attends the woman's congress in 1868,385;elected fourth president of the Association for the Advancement of Women,393;directs the woman's department at a Boston fair,394;at the New Orleans Exposition,395;difficulties encountered there,396;speech to the negroes,398;consideredclubableby Dr. Holmes,400;presides at a mock "Commencement,"403;goes abroad with her daughter Maud in 1877: entertained by Lord Houghton,410;breakfasts with Mr. Gladstone,411;goes to the House of Commons with Charles Parnell,412;visits Paris,413;goes to the French Academy,414;at the crowning of arosière,415;visits Doré's studio,416-419;lectures in Paris,419;president of a woman's rights congress,420;at the Healys' ball,421;speaks on suffrage in Italy,422;visits Princess Belgioiosa,422,423;sees Umberto crowned,424;reads with Madame Ristori,424,425;sees Leo XIII. consecrated,426;meets Washington Allston,429;first acquaintance with John S. Dwight,435;feeling of loss at Otto Dresel's death,438;her eldest daughter's death,439;successes and failures of her life,442-444.Howe, Maud.SeeElliott, Mrs.Howe, Dr. Samuel Gridley,first known to the Wards through Mrs. Howe's brother Samuel,49;his achievement in Laura Bridgman's case,81;Mr. Sanborn's estimate of,83;his philanthropic efforts,84;espouses the cause of Greece,85,86;his work for the blind,86,87;other activities: marries Julia Ward,88;goes abroad,89;entertained in London,92-107,110,111;visits London prisons,108,109;in Scotland,111;in Dublin,112;visits Miss Edgeworth,113;the poet Wordsworth,115;his connection with the Polish rebellion,117,118;excluded from Prussia,118;tour through Europe to Rome,118-121;arrested in Rome,123;presented to the Pope,126;with George Combe,131,132;leaves Rome,133;conversation with Florence Nightingale,138;his visit to Rotherhithe workhouse,141;his activity on the Boston School Board,148;advocates the teaching of speech to deaf-mutes,149;inability to sing,163;his circle of friends,169,170;his interest in prison reforms,173;commissioner on the annexation of Santo Domingo,181;visits Europe in 1850,188;takes the water cure at Boppard,189;his abolition sympathies,218;trip to Cuba,230;buys Lawton's Valley at Newport,238;objects to his children attending the Parker meetings,244;edits "The Commonwealth,"252;his friendship with Gov. Andrew,253;his judgment in military affairs,269;averse to women speaking in public,305;his interest in the Cretan insurrection,312, 313;starts for Greece,313;arrival in Athens: his life endangered,314;visits Crete: returns to Boston,320;visits Santo Domingo to report on the advisibility of annexing it,345;goes to Santo Domingo again,347;gives a dance for the people,355;goes to Santo Domingo a third time,360;hears of Sumner's death,364;returns to Boston,368;his death,369;tributes to his memory,370.Hudson River, journey up the,8.Hugo, Victor,remark on John Brown,256;at the congress ofgens de lettres,413.Hunt, Helen,at Newport,402.Hunting, Rev. J. J.,commends the exercises of the convention of woman ministers,312.Huntington, Daniel,paints portrait of Mrs. Howe's father,55."Hymns of the Spirit,"collected by Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson,293.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZIndians, the,in New York State,9;Samuel Ward's intercourse with, in California,70.Inglis, Sir Robert Harry,98.Iron Crown of Lombardy,119,120.Irving, Sir Henry,410.Irving, Washington,his embarrassment in public speaking,25;at the dinner to Charles Dickens,26;his manners and travels,27;his love affair,28;frequent visitor at the Astor mansion,75.Italy,emancipation of,121,193-196.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZJackson, Andrew,ridiculed in the "Downing Letters,"25;crushes the bank of the United States,50.James, Henry, the elder,his character and culture,323,324;his views on immortality,325;Swedenborgian tendencies,326;at Newport,402.Jameson, Mrs. (Anna Brownell Murphy),visits New York: her books and ability,40;private history and appearance,41;Mrs. Howe's acquaintance with her,41,42;describes Canada: later books by,42.Janauschek, Madame,visited by Dr. Hedge and Mrs. Howe in Boston,299.Janin, Jules,French critic,friend of Mrs. Howe's brother Samuel,68.Johnson, Samuel,joint editor of "Hymns of the Spirit,"293.Johnston, William P.,president of Tulane University,399.Julian, George W.,attends Mrs. Howe's lecture in Washington,309.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZKant, Immanuel,his transcendental philosophy,146;his "Critique of Pure Reason,"212;influence on Mrs. Howe,310.Kemble, Fanny,story of,131,132."Kenilworth,"Scott's novel of, play founded on,57.Kenyon, John,his dinner for the Howes,108.King, Charles,editor of the "New York American,"22;president of Columbia College,23.King, James,junior partner of Samuel Ward,23.King, Rufus,23.Knowles, James,editor of the "Nineteenth Century,"412.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZLafayette, General,interested in the Polish revolution,117.Lamartine,his poems and travels,206.Landseer, Sir Edwin,at the Rogers dinner,99.Lane, Prof. George M.,402.Lansdowne, Marquis of,his courtesy to the Howes,100,101.Lansdowne, Marchioness of,100.Lansdowne House,musical evening at,100-102;dinner at,103.Lawton's Valley,the Howes' summer home at Newport,238.Lee, Henry,on Gov. Andrew's staff,266.Lemonnier, M. Charles,editor,413.Lemonnier, Mme. Elise,founder of industrial schools for women,413.Leo XIII.,consecrated: revives certain points of ceremony,426.Lesczinska, Maria,wife of Louis XV.,227.Leveson-Gower, Lady Elizabeth,106.Leveson-Gower, Lady Evelyn,106.Libby Prison,the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" sung at,276."Liberator, The,"236."Liberty Bell, The,"154.Lieber, Dr. Francis,his opinion of Hegel,210;commends a passage from "Passion Flowers,"229at the Bryant celebration,278.Lincoln, Abraham,services at his death,248;Mrs. Howe's interview with,271,272."Linda di Chamounix,"104."Literary Recreations,"poems by Samuel Ward,73.Livermore, Mrs. Mary,158,294;her eloquence and skill,377,378;labors for woman suffrage,380-382;prominent in the woman's congress,385,386.Livy,histories of,209.Llangollen,story of the two maids of,111.London,the Howes in,91-111;Mrs. Howe's work there for the peace crusade,330-336;her last stay there,410-413.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,becomes a friend of Mrs. Howe through her brother Samuel,49;his opinion of Samuel Ward,73;takes Mrs. Howe to the Perkins Institution,81,82;his translations,147.Longfellow, Rev. Samuel,ordained,292;his character and convictions: hymns,293;his essay on "Law" before the Radical Club,294.Loring, Judge,denounced by Theodore Parker,164.Lothrop, Rev. Samuel K.,attends Mrs. Howe's parlor lectures,306;requests her to prolong the course,308.Lucas, Mrs. Margaret,assists Mrs. Howe in her woman's peace movement,341."Lucia di Lammermoor,"104."Luther,"Dr. Hedge's essay on,301.Lynch, Dominick,introduces the first opera troupe to New York,24.Lyons, Richard, Lord,British minister at Washington,309.ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward,asked to write her reminiscences,1;birth and parentage,3,4;brothers and sisters,4,5;early indication of inaptness with tools,7;travels to Niagara,8,9;childish incidents,7-10;her mother's death,10;early education,13,14;musical training,16,17;seclusion of her home,18;first ball,29;acquaintance with Mrs. Jameson,41,42;leaves school: studies German with Dr. Cogswell,43;reviews Lamartine's "Jocelyn,"44;manner of living at home,47;her social intercourse restricted,48;feelings on the death of her father,52;his guidance of,53;effect of her brother Henry's death,54;her studies,56-63;in chemistry,56;in French and Italian,57;literary work, dramas and lyrics,57,58;reading,58;German studies,59;further literary work, essays and poems,60,61;religious growth,62;first dinner party,64;her attire: bridesmaid at her brother's wedding,65;fear of lightning,78;social opportunities,78,79;spends the summer of 1841 near Boston: visits the Perkins Institution,81;sees Dr. Howe,82;her memoir of Dr. Howe for the blind,83;engagement and marriage,88;voyage to Europe,89-91;entertained in London,92-110;in Scotland,111;in Dublin,112;visits Miss Edgeworth,113;the poet Wordsworth,115;at Vienna,118;at Milan,119;arrival in Rome,121;birth of eldest daughter,128;leaves Rome,133;returns to England,133-135;visits Atherstone,136,137;sees the Nightingales,138;goes to Lea Hurst,139;Salisbury,139-143;her travesty of Dr. Howe's letter,142;attends Theodore Parker's meetings,150;life in South Boston,151,152;in Washington,178;second trip abroad,188;reaches Rome,191;returns to America,204;studious nature,205;ideas on Christianity,206-208;work in Latin,209;philosophical studies,210-213;housekeeping trials,214-217;free-soil preferences,219;at Count Gurowski's death-bed,226;her "Passion Flowers" published,228;her "Words of the Hour" and "The World's Own" published,230;trip to Cuba,231;parting with Theodore Parker,233,234;her book about the Cuban trip,236;writes for the "New York Tribune,"236,237;requested by Booth to write a play,237;disappointed at its nonappearance,240;attends James Freeman Clarke's meetings,245;helps Dr. Howe edit "The Commonwealth,"253;sees John Brown,254;goes on some trips with Gov. and Mrs. Andrew,266;visits Washington in 1861,269;first attempt at public speaking,271;meets Abraham Lincoln,272;how she came to write the "Battle Hymn,"273-275;takes part in the Bryant celebration,277-280;her papers before the Radical Club,287;pleasantry with Dr. Hedge,297;increasing desire to write and speak,304,305;gives parlor lectures at her home,306;repeats the course in Washington,308,309;various philosophical papers and essays,310;reads a paper on "Polarity" before the Radical Club,and one on "Ideal Causation" to the Parker Fraternity,311;interested in calling the first convention of woman ministers,312;starts for Greece,313;arrival in Athens,314;distributes clothes to the Cretan refugees,316-318;returns to Boston: conducts the Cretan Bazaar,320;lectures in Newport and Boston,321,322;starts a woman's peace crusade,328;holds meetings to advance the cause in New York,329;visits England to organize a Woman's Peace Congress,329;speaks at the banquet of the Unitarian Association,331;her Sunday afternoon meetings at Freemasons' Tavern,331,332;meets Mrs. Grey,333;visits Prof. Seeley,335;is constrained to apply her energy to the woman's club movement,336;her peace addresses in England, where made,337;asked to attend the Peace Congress in Paris,338;attends a Prison Reform meeting,339;her speech there,340;holds a final meeting to further her peace crusade in London,341;goes to Santo Domingo with Dr. Howe,349;holds religious services for the negroes there,350-352;visits a girls' school,352;invited to speak to a secret Bible society,353;every-day life there,357,358;invited to a state dinner by President Baez,360;her second visit to Santo Domingo,360;her difficulties in riding horseback,362;her interest in the emancipation of woman takes more definite form,372,373;attends the meeting to found the New England Woman's Club,374;joins the woman suffrage movement,375;her efforts for that cause,376;gains experience,377;trips to promote the cause,379-381;at legislative hearings,381-384;attends the woman's congress in 1868,385;elected fourth president of the Association for the Advancement of Women,393;directs the woman's department at a Boston fair,394;at the New Orleans Exposition,395;difficulties encountered there,396;speech to the negroes,398;consideredclubableby Dr. Holmes,400;presides at a mock "Commencement,"403;goes abroad with her daughter Maud in 1877: entertained by Lord Houghton,410;breakfasts with Mr. Gladstone,411;goes to the House of Commons with Charles Parnell,412;visits Paris,413;goes to the French Academy,414;at the crowning of arosière,415;visits Doré's studio,416-419;lectures in Paris,419;president of a woman's rights congress,420;at the Healys' ball,421;speaks on suffrage in Italy,422;visits Princess Belgioiosa,422,423;sees Umberto crowned,424;reads with Madame Ristori,424,425;sees Leo XIII. consecrated,426;meets Washington Allston,429;first acquaintance with John S. Dwight,435;feeling of loss at Otto Dresel's death,438;her eldest daughter's death,439;successes and failures of her life,442-444.
Howe, Maud.SeeElliott, Mrs.
Howe, Dr. Samuel Gridley,first known to the Wards through Mrs. Howe's brother Samuel,49;his achievement in Laura Bridgman's case,81;Mr. Sanborn's estimate of,83;his philanthropic efforts,84;espouses the cause of Greece,85,86;his work for the blind,86,87;other activities: marries Julia Ward,88;goes abroad,89;entertained in London,92-107,110,111;visits London prisons,108,109;in Scotland,111;in Dublin,112;visits Miss Edgeworth,113;the poet Wordsworth,115;his connection with the Polish rebellion,117,118;excluded from Prussia,118;tour through Europe to Rome,118-121;arrested in Rome,123;presented to the Pope,126;with George Combe,131,132;leaves Rome,133;conversation with Florence Nightingale,138;his visit to Rotherhithe workhouse,141;his activity on the Boston School Board,148;advocates the teaching of speech to deaf-mutes,149;inability to sing,163;his circle of friends,169,170;his interest in prison reforms,173;commissioner on the annexation of Santo Domingo,181;visits Europe in 1850,188;takes the water cure at Boppard,189;his abolition sympathies,218;trip to Cuba,230;buys Lawton's Valley at Newport,238;objects to his children attending the Parker meetings,244;edits "The Commonwealth,"252;his friendship with Gov. Andrew,253;his judgment in military affairs,269;averse to women speaking in public,305;his interest in the Cretan insurrection,312, 313;starts for Greece,313;arrival in Athens: his life endangered,314;visits Crete: returns to Boston,320;visits Santo Domingo to report on the advisibility of annexing it,345;goes to Santo Domingo again,347;gives a dance for the people,355;goes to Santo Domingo a third time,360;hears of Sumner's death,364;returns to Boston,368;his death,369;tributes to his memory,370.
Hudson River, journey up the,8.
Hugo, Victor,remark on John Brown,256;at the congress ofgens de lettres,413.
Hunt, Helen,at Newport,402.
Hunting, Rev. J. J.,commends the exercises of the convention of woman ministers,312.
Huntington, Daniel,paints portrait of Mrs. Howe's father,55.
"Hymns of the Spirit,"collected by Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson,293.
Indians, the,in New York State,9;Samuel Ward's intercourse with, in California,70.
Inglis, Sir Robert Harry,98.
Iron Crown of Lombardy,119,120.
Irving, Sir Henry,410.
Irving, Washington,his embarrassment in public speaking,25;at the dinner to Charles Dickens,26;his manners and travels,27;his love affair,28;frequent visitor at the Astor mansion,75.
Italy,emancipation of,121,193-196.
Jackson, Andrew,ridiculed in the "Downing Letters,"25;crushes the bank of the United States,50.
James, Henry, the elder,his character and culture,323,324;his views on immortality,325;Swedenborgian tendencies,326;at Newport,402.
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna Brownell Murphy),visits New York: her books and ability,40;private history and appearance,41;Mrs. Howe's acquaintance with her,41,42;describes Canada: later books by,42.
Janauschek, Madame,visited by Dr. Hedge and Mrs. Howe in Boston,299.
Janin, Jules,French critic,friend of Mrs. Howe's brother Samuel,68.
Johnson, Samuel,joint editor of "Hymns of the Spirit,"293.
Johnston, William P.,president of Tulane University,399.
Julian, George W.,attends Mrs. Howe's lecture in Washington,309.
Kant, Immanuel,his transcendental philosophy,146;his "Critique of Pure Reason,"212;influence on Mrs. Howe,310.
Kemble, Fanny,story of,131,132.
"Kenilworth,"Scott's novel of, play founded on,57.
Kenyon, John,his dinner for the Howes,108.
King, Charles,editor of the "New York American,"22;president of Columbia College,23.
King, James,junior partner of Samuel Ward,23.
King, Rufus,23.
Knowles, James,editor of the "Nineteenth Century,"412.
Lafayette, General,interested in the Polish revolution,117.
Lamartine,his poems and travels,206.
Landseer, Sir Edwin,at the Rogers dinner,99.
Lane, Prof. George M.,402.
Lansdowne, Marquis of,his courtesy to the Howes,100,101.
Lansdowne, Marchioness of,100.
Lansdowne House,musical evening at,100-102;dinner at,103.
Lawton's Valley,the Howes' summer home at Newport,238.
Lee, Henry,on Gov. Andrew's staff,266.
Lemonnier, M. Charles,editor,413.
Lemonnier, Mme. Elise,founder of industrial schools for women,413.
Leo XIII.,consecrated: revives certain points of ceremony,426.
Lesczinska, Maria,wife of Louis XV.,227.
Leveson-Gower, Lady Elizabeth,106.
Leveson-Gower, Lady Evelyn,106.
Libby Prison,the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" sung at,276.
"Liberator, The,"236.
"Liberty Bell, The,"154.
Lieber, Dr. Francis,his opinion of Hegel,210;commends a passage from "Passion Flowers,"229at the Bryant celebration,278.
Lincoln, Abraham,services at his death,248;Mrs. Howe's interview with,271,272.
"Linda di Chamounix,"104.
"Literary Recreations,"poems by Samuel Ward,73.
Livermore, Mrs. Mary,158,294;her eloquence and skill,377,378;labors for woman suffrage,380-382;prominent in the woman's congress,385,386.
Livy,histories of,209.
Llangollen,story of the two maids of,111.
London,the Howes in,91-111;Mrs. Howe's work there for the peace crusade,330-336;her last stay there,410-413.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,becomes a friend of Mrs. Howe through her brother Samuel,49;his opinion of Samuel Ward,73;takes Mrs. Howe to the Perkins Institution,81,82;his translations,147.
Longfellow, Rev. Samuel,ordained,292;his character and convictions: hymns,293;his essay on "Law" before the Radical Club,294.
Loring, Judge,denounced by Theodore Parker,164.
Lothrop, Rev. Samuel K.,attends Mrs. Howe's parlor lectures,306;requests her to prolong the course,308.
Lucas, Mrs. Margaret,assists Mrs. Howe in her woman's peace movement,341.
"Lucia di Lammermoor,"104.
"Luther,"Dr. Hedge's essay on,301.
Lynch, Dominick,introduces the first opera troupe to New York,24.
Lyons, Richard, Lord,British minister at Washington,309.