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_Harper & Brothers Publishers_ _New York and London_
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Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published November, 1918
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MY SONS AND MY DAUGHTER SAMUEL PRESCOTT HALL CAROLINE MINTURN BIRCKHEAD HENRY MARION HALL JOHN HOWE HALL
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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).
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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.
III. MEMORIES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD The Perkins Institution for 12 the Blind.—South Boston in the ’Fifties and ’Sixties. Migratory Habits of the Howe Family.—“Cliff House” at Newport.—George William Curtis and the Howe Children.—A Children’s Party at the Longfellow Mansion.—Professor “Stubby” Child Plays with Us in the Hay.
IV. OUR EARLY LITERARY ACTIVITIES The Howe Children Invent 30 a “Patagonian Language,” Edit a Newspaper _The Listener_, Write Plays and Songs. They Give “Parlor Concerts” and Take Part in Tableaux and Private Theatricals.—William Story and Thackeray.