Produced by WebRover, Peter Vachuska, Chuck Greif, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _MEMORIES GRAVE AND GAY_ ❦ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Florence Howe Hall] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _MEMORIES_ _GRAVE AND GAY_ BY FLORENCE HOWE HALL _Frontispiece portrait_ [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] _Harper & Brothers Publishers_ _New York and London_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MEMORIES GRAVE AND GAY --- Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published November, 1918 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY SONS AND MY DAUGHTER SAMUEL PRESCOTT HALL CAROLINE MINTURN BIRCKHEAD HENRY MARION HALL JOHN HOWE HALL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author wishes to express her cordial thanks to Messrs HOUGHTON AND MIFFLIN for their courtesy in allowing her to quote from the “Reminiscences” of Julia Ward Howe (published by them in 1899) and from “Julia Ward Howe” (published by them in 1916). She also desires to thank Mrs. LAURA E. RICHARDS for her kind permission to quote from “The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe” (published by Dana Estes & Company in 1906). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY The Romance of Philanthropy Causes the 1 First Meeting of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward.—Letter of Congratulation from the Poet Longfellow.—The “Chevalier.”—The Wedding-tour in Europe.—The Eldest Daughter, Julia Romana, Is Born in Rome. Why She Was “Mary” and I Was “Martha.” II. STORIES TOLD US BY OUR PARENTS The Alarming Three Bears 4 of the Howe Coat-of-arms.—Brutality at the Old Boston Latin School.—Boyish Mischief.—Papa’s Church.—Grandmother Cutler Rebukes the Biographer of Washington and Marion.—Grandfather Ward, His Liberality and His Stern Calvinism.