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[66] "Kenyon's Legacy," printed in Later Lyrics.

[67] Formerly Anagnostopoulos. He dropped the last three syllables soon after coming to this country.

[68] The Handel and Haydn Festival.

[69] 1869-1871. He took the course of geology and mining engineering, graduating at the head of his class.

[70] Napoleon III.

[71] "To suckle fools and chronicle small beer." Othello.

[72] Reminiscences, p. 346.

[73] Reminiscences, p. 362.

[74] Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe.

[75] Mrs. Charles C. Perkins.

[76] She had a great regard and admiration for Miss Mitchell. Scientific achievement seemed to her well-nigh miraculous, and roused in her an almost childlike reverence.

[77] Of the Redpath Bureau.

[78] Reminiscences, pp. 411 and 412.

[79] The armless painter. See ante, vol. I, chap. xii.

[80] The Prussian aristocracy.

[81] Reminiscences, p. 423.

[82] Reminiscences, p. 423.

[83] The present King, Victor Emanuel III.

[84] Reminiscences, p. 425.

[85] The favorite wife of the Khedive.

[86] A cousin who was of the party.

[87] Ismail Pasha.

[88] A negro attendant.

[89] A Greek Protestant minister.

[90] Francis Parkman had written an article opposing woman suffrage.

[91] Luther Terry, an American painter who had lived long in Rome, and had been a close friend of Thomas Crawford. He survived his wife by some years.

[92] Dr. H. P. Beach.

[93] The late Richard Sullivan.

[94] Welsh for "glory": a favorite exclamation of hers, learned in childhood from a Welsh servant.

[95] John Howe Hall.

[96] Laura had once been told that she "would not amount to much without her good nature."

[97] Berkeley Chambers, where she and Maud spent this winter.

[98] Michael.

[99] This was a summer school of ten years (1879-88) in which Emerson, Alcott, and W. T. Harris took part.

[100] Reminiscences, p. 440.

[101] These essays were published in a volume entitled Is Polite Society Polite?

[102] Cf. ?schylus.

[103] Miss Sarah J. Eddy, then of Providence, a granddaughter of Francis Jackson.

[104] Boston.

[105] Thomas Davidson, founder of the "New Fellowship" (London and New York) and of the "Breadwinners' College."

[106] Mrs. George Russell, widow of the Doctor's friend and college chum.

[107] Caroline Tappan was Caroline Sturgis, daughter of Captain William Sturgis, and sister of Ellen (Sturgis) Hooper,—member of the inmost Transcendentalist circle, and friend of Emerson, Ellery Channing, and Margaret Fuller.

[108] Song Album. Published by G. Schirmer & Co.

[109] Henry Marion Howe.

[110] The Reverend Antoinette Blackwell.

[111] Ralph Adams Cram, architect and litterateur.

[112] Author of Civil Rights of Women.

[113] Son of Abraham Lincoln.

[114] Lady Battersea.

[115] Sergius Stepniak, a Russian author, then a political exile living in England.

[116] Rosmini-Serbati, a noted philosopher and founder of the order of the Brothers of Charity.

[117] Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown was at this time president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and had prepared this exhibit, the first of its kind in club history.

[118] Now (1915) a political prisoner in Siberia: she escaped, but was recaptured and later removed to a more remote place of imprisonment.

[119] Mrs. Winthrop Chanler.

[120] Anagnos.

[121] Dr. Wesselhoeft.

[122] Harold Crawford, who was killed in the present war (1915), fighting for the Allies.

[123] Now Cardinal O'Connell.

[124] I.e., Clerical.

[125] Her brother-in-law, Luther Terry.

[126] Elliott was at work upon his Triumph of Time, a ceiling decoration for the Boston Public Library.

[127] In the Reminiscences.

[128] The late John Hays Gardiner, author of The Bible as Literature, The Forms of Prose Literature, and Harvard.

[129] Edwin Arlington Robinson, author of Captain Craig, etc.

[130] The facsimile printed in the Reminiscences contains the discarded stanza.

[131] Julia Ward Richards.

[132] A terrible storm and tidal wave which had nearly destroyed the city.

[133] James Freeman Clarke.

[134] The Triumph of Time, at the Public Library.

[135] Dr. Lawrence J. Henderson.

[136] The bridegroom, Henry Marion Hall.

[137] That is, to have it bought by some public society.

[138] An editor.

[139] Professor Todd, of Amherst, and his wife, Mabel Loomis Todd.

[140] Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe.

[141] Count Mayer des Planches.

[142] Theodore Roosevelt.

[143] St. George's, Newport.

[144] Julia Ward Howe Hall.

[145] Hawthorne's friend of the Democratic Review.

[146] T. W. Higginson, The Outlook, January 26, 1907.

[147] These verses are printed in At Sunset, under the title of "Humanity," and at the head of chapter xi of this volume.

[148] It may be noted that this epidemic of tonsillitis was actually fatal to Miss Susan B. Anthony, who never recovered from the illness contracted in Baltimore.

[149] Mrs. Charles Homans.

[150] This poem appears in At Sunset.

[151] Her man of business and faithful friend. Though of her children's generation, she had adopted him as an "uncle."

[152] Son of Caroline Minturn (Hall) and the Reverend Hugh Birckhead.

Transcriber's Notes:

The footnote on page 127 was unreadable but was found in another copy. "The Five of Clubs. See _ante_."

On page 307 there was a footnote marker[2] with no corresponding footnote. "Never may I escape it to my grave!"[2]

Index entry for Tebbets, Mrs., 227. gives no volume number. She is mentioned in Volume II only, on page 227.

The Table of Contents for Volume II was not found in the original, but was provided by the transcriber.

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