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A series of personal recollections sketches family life in Boston and abroad, centering on the author’s upbringing amid parents engaged in philanthropic and reform work. Vivid anecdotes cover childhood play and homemade entertainments, household stories, visits with prominent literary and scientific figures, and ties to institutions for the blind. The book recounts summers in rural retreats, theatrical and musical pursuits, and memories connected to the anti‑slavery movement and the Civil War, combining intimate family portraiture with glimpses of social life and civic commitment.

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Title: Memories grave and gay

Author: Florence Howe Hall

Release date: March 17, 2019 [eBook #59083]

Language: English

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MEMORIES GRAVE AND GAY

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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).