Memories grave and gay

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Florence Howe Hall. Memories grave and gay

Memories grave and gay

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

I. INTRODUCTORY

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

VIII. THE AGASSIZ SCHOOL

IX. EDWIN BOOTH AND CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN

X. LAWTON’S VALLEY, OUR SUMMER HOME

XI. ANTI-SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR MEMORIES

XII. WORK FOR THE SOLDIERS

XIII. THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR

XIV. OUR LABORS IN BEHALF OF CRETE

XV. MARRIED LIFE IN NEW JERSEY

XVI. RECONSTRUCTING A NEW JERSEY VILLAGE

XVII “I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND”

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

XXII “WANDER-YEARS”

XXIII. UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION

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Florence Howe Hall

Published by Good Press, 2019

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In the early summer of 1850 our parents, with the younger children, Harry and Laura, sailed for Europe. As became a child of New England, I was extremely reserved, and it was thought a pleasant sign when, as the family were about to depart, I wept. Alas! Investigation revealed that my tears were really connected with the little Greek almonds—doubtless too few had been allotted to me. In justice to myself I must say that on the return, eighteen months later, of my mother, brother and sister, I found tears of joy in my eyes.

My eldest sister and I were left in the custody of our faithful nurse, Lizzie, and in the care of friends. We spent the summer happily at Concord, Massachusetts. Hearing the bells toll one day, we asked the reason, and were told that General Taylor (then President of the United States) was dead.

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