II STORIES TOLD US BY OUR PARENTS III MEMORIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD IV OUR EARLY LITERARY ACTIVITIES V UNDER THE SHADOW OF BYRON'S HELMET VI NOTED VISITORS AT "GREEN PEACE" VII YOUNG AMERICA GOES TO SCHOOL IX EDWIN BOOTH AND CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN X LAWTON'S VALLEY, OUR SUMMER HOME XI ANTI-SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR MEMORIES XIII THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR XIV OUR LABORS IN BEHALF OF CRETE XVI RECONSTRUCTING A NEW JERSEY VILLAGE XVIII OUR CHILDREN AT HOME, SCHOOL AND COLLEGE XIX THE CLUB AND SUFFRAGE MOVEMENTS XX JOYS AND SORROWS OF THE LECTURER XXI DARBY AND JOAN ON THEIR TRAVELS XXIII UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION Florence Howe Hall MEMORIES GRAVE AND GAY BY FLORENCE HOWE HALL Frontispiece portrait 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). |