Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr.Hall, Edward B. (Edward Brooks)
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Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr.
Hall, Edward B. (Edward Brooks)
Unitarians -- United States -- Biography; Ware, Mary L. (Mary Lovell), 1798-1849
We will not attempt to follow them closely in their foreign tour. Those
who wish to trace its progress, and note the dates and incidents, will
find them in the Memoir of Henry Ware by his brother. They visited
England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and France,
spending the winter in Italy. The first summer they passed over much of
the ground and sought the spots, in England, so familiar and memorable
to Mary from her former experience. They visited Wordsworth, Southey,
Mrs. Hemans, Miss Edgeworth; and passed much time with Unitarian
ministers, whom Mr. Ware wished particularly to see, that he might learn
all he could of their position, cultivate a fraternal feeling, and open
the way for a more frequent and friendly correspondence between those of
the same household of faith in England and America. About the last of
August they went to the Continent, taking Holland first, and thence
through Switzerland into Italy, reaching Rome in December, and remaining
there until April.
The few letters that Mrs. Ware wrote home will be given in the order of
their dates, with little explanation or comment. Some are in the form of
a journal; and here and there we see the hand of Mr. Ware, taking up
the thread which his wife had dropped, and then leaving her to resume.
"_Greta Bridge, July 8, 1829._
"MY DEAR EMMA:--
"I slept last night in the very same room, at Barnard Castle,
which you and I occupied four years ago. And having been in
many places lately where we had been together, such as Studley,
Ripon, and the George Inn at York, where we parted, and
moreover, as you have visited me in my dreams, night after
night, for a long time past, I feel that I must yield to the
desire of writing to you, although it may be but a few lines of
uninteresting matter. This place will, however, insure to the
letter some value, for I remember well how you wished that the
rain would abate, that you might see something of its beauties.
I wished it also then, but I wish it much more now, that I have
had an opportunity of----
"Here the arrival of the coach which was to take us from this
paradise cut short Mary's opportunity, and I dare say she will
not remember what she was going to write; so that I, her
substitute and lieutenant, go on to tell you how much we have
mentioned your name while on these romantic grounds, and how
glad we should have been to trace with you the paths of Rokeby
and Greta in memory----
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