XI. ANTI-SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR MEMORIES Deep Interest of My 128 Parents in the Anti-Slavery Movement and in the Civil War.—We Learn the Evil of Compromise.—A Trip to Kansas.—Manners on the Mississippi Steamboats.—Fort Sumter Is Attacked.—Mother’s Poems of the War.—Father’s Work on the Sanitary Commission.—How the Flag Was Treated at Newport.—We Ride in the “Jeff Davis.” Knitting and Scraping Lint.—Sewing-circles.—Fairs for the Army and the Navy.—“The Boatswain’s Whistle.”—Visiting the Camp at Readville.—Governor N. P. Banks.—Governor John A. Andrew.—Parade of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery XII. WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS The Ancient and Honorable 141 Artillery.—Death of Little Sammy.—Assassination of Lincoln.—My Father Serves on the Freedmen’s Commission. XIII. THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR How We 155 Dressed and Danced in the ’Sixties.—War Prices.—Mrs. Jared Sparks.—Visit of the Russian Fleet.—The Brain Club.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.—Ralph Waldo Emerson.—William R. Alger.—William M. Hunt.—“Mamma’s Owls,” William and Henry James.—A Clever Group of Society Women.—A Historic Nose-pulling. XIV. OUR LABORS IN BEHALF OF CRETE Removal to Boylston 180 Place.—W. D. Howells.—Marion Crawford as a Boy.—The Romance of a Fire.—The Cretan Insurrection.—Sisters Julia and Laura Accompany Our Parents to Greece.—A Grim Passenger.—A Price Is Set on My Father’s Head.—Our Cretan Sewing-Circle and Concert.—Over-modest Amateurs.—The Sumner Bronzes. XV. MARRIED LIFE IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY Nursery 205 Days.—The Family of a New Jersey Commuter.—Sorrows of the Country Housekeeper.—Death of My Father.—A Memorial Meeting.—The Story of Sister Constance.—A Division of Heirlooms. XVI. RECONSTRUCTING A NEW JERSEY VILLAGE The Mutual 220 Admiration Society of Scotch Plains.—My Husband Becomes a Leader in Local Politics and Activities.—The Passing of the Mossbacks.—How We Gained a Public Library, a New School-house and a New Truck-house.—An Overseer of the Poor with Peculiar Methods. XVII. “I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND” Following the Family 233 Tradition.—_Demorest’s_ and “Jennie June.”—Marion Crawford and the Little Green Parlor.—Town and Country Club.—Charles Dudley Warner.—How I Came to Write about Manners.—Life of Laura Bridgman.—Helen Keller at the Perkins Institution. A Luncheon at “Boothden,” the Home of Edwin Booth.—Joseph Jefferson and William Warren.