JULIA WARD HOWE 1819-1910 BY LAURA E. RICHARDS AND MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT ASSISTED BY FLORENCE HOWE HALL With Portraits and other Illustrations VOLUME H BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Iftitaer i e 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY LAURA E, RICHARDS AND MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published March igib CONTENTS I. EUROPE REVISITED. 1877 3 II. A ROMAN WINTER. 1878-1879 28 III. NEWPORT. 1879-1882 46 IV. 241 BEACON STREET THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. 1883-1885 80 V. MORE CHANGES. 1886-1888 115 VI. SEVENTY YEARS YOUNG. 1889-1890 143 VII. A SUMMER ABROAD. 1892-1893 164 VIII. DIVERS GOOD CAUSES 1890-1896 186 IX. IN THE HOUSE OF LABOR. 1896-1897 14 X. THE LAST ROMAN WINTER. 1897-1898 237 XL EIGHTY YEARS. 1899-1900 258 XII. STEPPING WESTWARD. 1901-1902 282 XIII. LOOKING TOWARD SUNSET. 1903-1905 308 XIV. THE SUNDOWN SPLENDID AND SERENE. 1 1906-1907 342 XV. MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD. 1908-1910 369 INDEX 415 ILLUSTRATIONS MBS. HOWE, 1895 Photogravure Frontispiece From a photograph taken at Newport, R. L, July 25, 1895, by Alman Co. HALL FOUR GENERATIONS MRS. HOWE, MRS. HALL, HENRY MARION HALL, JULIA WARD HOWE HALL 46 Prom a photograph, 1903 MRS. HOWES BOSTON HOUSE, 241 BEACON STREET 80 INTERIOR, 41 BEACON STREET 96 JULIA ROMANA ANAGNOS 116 SNAPSHOT IN THE OAK GLEN PAELOE 198 Taken by Major Dudley Mills THE SEC RICHARDS GRANDCHILDREN 222 From a photograph by E. H. Richards MRS. HOWE AT OAK GLEN, 1900 276 From a photograph by John Elliott RICHARDS FOUR GENERATIONS MRS. HOWE, MRS. RICHARDS, MRS. SHAW, HENRY SHAW 298 From a photograph by C. A. Shaw, 1907 MRS. HOWE, 1905 330 From a photograph by Underwood and Underwood MRS. HOWE, 1908 376 From a painting by JohnElliott JULIA WARD HOWE JULIA WARD HOWE CHAPTER I EUROPE REVISITED 1877 aet. 5S A MOMENTS MEDITATION IN COLOGNE CATHEDRAL Enter Lifes high cathedral With reverential heart, Its lofty oppositions Matched with divinest art. Thought with its other climbing To meet and blend on high Mans mortal and immortal Wed for eternity. When noons high mass is over, Muse in the silent aisles Wait for the coming vespers In which new promise smiles. When from the dome height echoes An lie, missa est Whisper thy last thanksgiving, Depart, and take thy rest. J. W. H. FROM the time of the Doctors death till her marriage in 1887, the youngest daughter was her mothers com panion and yoke-fellow. In all records of travel, of cheer, of merriment, she can say thankfully Et ego in Arcadia vixi. The spring of 1877 found the elder comrade weary with much lecturing and presiding, the younger some what out of health. Change of air and scene was pre