32, 49-52
Gardiner, Maine, and the World War, 373
Gardner, Amory, 178
Gardner, Augustus P., public services of, 378
Gardner, Francis, head-master of Boston Latin School, 45;
Hunt’s portrait of, 45
Gardner, Helen, 130;
her charming personality, 132-133
Gardner, John L., 379
Gardner, Mrs. John L., 267, 269, 377-380
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, at funeral of Victor Emmanuel, 168;
appeal to Italia Irredenta, 169;
and the Tiber Embankment, 169
Gay, Fannie. See Howe, Mrs. Henry Marion
Gay, Willard, 87
Gayarré, Judge Charles, 214
Gennadius, M., Minister of Greece to Great Britain, 145
George I, King of Greece, 190;
assassination of, 370
Germany, infiltration of Italy by, 170;
uneasiness in London over aggressiveness of, 233-234;
and the World War, 372;
ruthlessness of, 373;
conscious savagery of, 376;
and the Lusitania, 383-384;
and deportation of Belgians, 386-387;
declaration of war by United States against, 388
Gethsemane, Garden of, 186
Gilbert, William S., popularity of his light operas, 151, 152
Gilder, Richard Watson, 75
Gillette, William, 360-361
Gillow, Monsignore, 205
Gladstone, William Ewart, eloquence of, 140; 233;
“Female Suffrage” pamphlet, 235
Glass, Billy, the coachman, 14
Gobbo, Don R., the, 284-285
Godey’s Magazine, author’s first story appears in, 194
Goring, England, 312
Goschen, George, Jr., 197
Gosse, Edmund, a stanch friend in London, 142
Graham, Cunninghame, 326
Granada, 253-254
Grant, Nellie, author visits, in White House, 84
Grant, Judge Robert, 52
Grant, Patrick, 52
Grant, Rev. Percy, 317
Grant, President Ulysses S., and annexation of Santo Domingo, 83-84;
appoints S. G. Howe commissioner to Santo Domingo, 84;
and autograph collectors, 84-85;
renomination and election of, 108, 109;
banquet in London to, 146
Grant, Mrs. Ulysses S., invites author to visit White House, 84
Gray, Ellen, 54
Gray, Mrs. William, 54
Greece, visited, 190, 310
Greek Church in London, attends, 153
Greeley, Horace, 109
Green Peace, the home in South Boston, 11;
selection of the name, 30;
the garden, flowers and fruits, 31-32;
favorite dogs at, 32;
the house closed, 51;
return to, 123;
home life at, 123-124
Greene, Rev. Boley, 356
Greenough, Richard S., 258, 302
Gridley, Jeremy, a paternal ancestor, 35;
attorney-general of Province of Massachusetts Bay, 35
Gridley, Richard, a paternal ancestor, 35
“Grimm’s Fairy Tales”, 29
Griscom, Lloyd, American Ambassador to Italy, 322, 323, 327
Griscom, Mrs. Lloyd, 322, 334-335
Grosvenor Gallery, London, 144, 145
Guiccioli, Marchese, 300
Gurnee, Augustus, 183

Hading, Jane, in “L’Aventurière”, 281
Hague, The, 279
Hale, Edward Everett, 223, 309
Hall, David Prescott, 78;
engagement to Florence Howe, 81
Hall, Mrs. David Prescott, named for Florence Nightingale, 6; 34;
instructs author in arithmetic, 46;
engagement of, 79, 81;
marriage, 86;
completes life of Laura Bridgman, 314
“Hamlet”, 237
Hampden, Walter, in “Hippolytus”, 348
Hancock house, regret at demolition of the, 55
Handel and Haydn Society, 41, 309
Hansom cab, author’s liking for, 155, 156
Harcourt, Sir Vernon, 233, 299
Hare, Augustus J. C., 161
Harland, Henry, a brilliant conversationalist, 236
Harland, Mrs. Henry, 236
Harte, Francis Bret, 126;
at the Howe home, 127-128;
his wit and humor, 128
Harvard Musical Association, builds Boston Music Hall, 40-41
Hattori, Ichizo, commissioner at New Orleans Exposition, 210-211
Havana, 101-104
Hawthorne, Julian, personal appearance, 28;
effect of father’s reputation on, 29
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 26;
dislike for housework, 27;
“The Scarlet Letter”, 27;
influence of his writings on author’s childhood, 28;
his children, 28-29
Hawthorne, Una, at Lawton’s Valley, 28
Hay, John, 126, 127, 261
Hazard, Thomas, Vancluse summer home of, 111-114;
secures abolition of death penalty, 112;
a confirmed spiritualist, 113-114
Hedge, Rev. Frederick, 25
Helbig, Professor and Madame, 171, 173, 329
“Helena Ritchie”, Deland, 202
“Henry VIII”, 237
Herbert, Sir Arthur, 376-377
Higginson, Major Henry, 377
Higginson, Captain Frank, 188
Hill, Arthur, 361
Hilliard, Mrs., gives author music lessons, 47
Hilliard School, author attends, 47-48
“Hippolytus”, belated production of Mrs. Howe’s play, 347-348
Holidays in Italy, demoralizing effect of, 324
Holland, impressions of, 174, 279
Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, 146;
his favorite poems, 224;
putting up his first “shingle”, 224
Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell, 336
Homer, the birthplace of, 187
Horn, “Marm”, and her small shop, 48-49
Houghton, Lord, 144
“How They Lived at Hampton”, Hale, 223
Howard, George. See Carlisle, Lord
Howe, Anjie, the author’s cousin, 36
Howe, Edward Compton, author’s great-grandfather, 35;
a member of the Boston Tea Party, 35
Howe, Eliza, the author’s aunt, 36;
an able housekeeper, 36-37
Howe, Eliza, the author’s cousin, 36
Howe, Florence, the author’s sister. See Hall, Mrs. David Prescott
Howe, Henry Marion, the author’s brother, 6;
elation over the fall of Vicksburg, 21; 34;
graduation, 86;
student in steel works in Troy, 87;
engagement and marriage, 87;
death, 87 note
Howe, Mrs. Henry Marion, marriage, 87
Howe, Joseph, the author’s uncle, 36;
personal appearance, 36;
president of Sandwich Glass Co., 36;
his home, 36-38;
and Boston Theater, 38
Howe, Joseph Neals, the author’s grandfather, 35;
his ropewalk, 35
Howe, Julia, the author’s sister. See Anagnos, Mrs. Michael
Howe, Julia Ward (the author’s mother), comment on Theodore Parker’s request, 5;
her children, 6;
idea of discipline, 7;
author’s early classification of friends of, 14;
her “Reminiscences”, 15;
Henry James, the elder, and, 22;
and the Radical Club, 23;
and William R. Alger, 24;
choice of books for her children, 29;
and Green Peace, 31;
grief for death of little Sam, 33;
and the Music Hall organ, 41;
regard for her neighbors, 52-53;
and Francis Parkman, 53;
instills a love for music and art, 62-63;
in New York and Washington, 64-73;
a trip to Greece, 78-80;
and autograph
collectors, 85;
appeals for an International Peace Conference, 85;
letter from William H. Channing, 85-86;
in Santo Domingo, 91-99;
visits Cuba, 101-104;
trip to Europe, 106;
reception to President and Mrs. Grant, 109, 127;
Oak Glen summer home of, 117;
Porter’s crayon drawing of, 124;
and John Hay, 126;
home in Mt. Vernon Street, 127;
Bret Harte at home of, 127;
Town and Country Club, 129;
in Washington, 129;
her husband’s death, 134;
lecture trip through the West, 135, 136;
a trip to Europe, 138;
hospitality of London friends, 139;
and the London World, 143;
on the loyalty of English audiences, 151;
in Rome, 158-173;
daughter’s illness, 164;
and death of Victor Emmanuel II, 168;
through Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, 174-175;
profoundly moved by visit to Egypt and Palestine, 183-186;
in the Garden of Gethsemane, 186;
purchases a mummy, 189-190;
her welcome in Greece, 190-191;
comment on author’s first earnings, 194;
interest in Marion Crawford’s early work, 196;
winter home on Beacon Street, 198-199;
Chief of Woman’s Department of New Orleans Cotton Centennial, 204-216;
at brother’s grave in New Orleans, 213;
founds literary club in New Orleans, 214;
letter from author, 217;
visits author in Chicago, 222;
preaches at Church of the Disciples, 230-231;
again in London, 232-247;
appreciation of English friendships, 234;
letter from Mrs. Chant, 235;
letters from author, 249, 260, 265, 267, 271, 274-282;
visits author in Rome, 283-289;
organizes civic and literary clubs in Rome, 287;
Villegas’ portrait of, 288;
Anderson’s bust of, 288;
fondness for becoming dress, 289;
letter to author, 289;
letters from author, 290-294, 298-301, 302-307, 310-313, 314, 317-326, 327-329;
the beauty of her Italian speech, 383;
plea for the Americans, 341;
death, 346;
meetings in commemoration of and tributes to, 346-347;
belated production of her “Hippolytus”, 347;
influence on Roosevelt for woman suffrage, 350;
presentation of portrait of, to Bostonian Society, 359;
author’s remarkable dream of, 371
Howe, Laura E., the author’s sister. See Richards, Mrs. Henry
Howe, M. A. de Wolfe, 228
Howe, Maria, the author’s cousin, 36
Howe, Martha, the author’s cousin. See Parks, Mrs. Austin
Howe, Maud. See Elliott, Mrs. John
Howe, Samuel Gridley (the author’s father), and Parker’s request, 4;
founder and builder of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, 5;
his children, 6;
author’s first memory of, 6;
teaching author to tell the time, 7;
idea of discipline, 7;
good judge of character, 8;
education of Laura Bridgman, 10;
of restless temperament, 11;
and Fourth of July, 12-14;
friends and associates, 14-21;
and John Brown, 15-16;
intimacy with Sumner, 17;
and John A. Andrew, 17;
letters to Governor Andrew, 19, 20;
services under Andrew, 19-20;
one of the founders of the Sanitary Commission, 19-20;
and the death of Lincoln, 21;
life at Green Peace, 32;
a fine horseman, 32, 54;
letter describing his children, 34;
and McClellan, 58;
activities, 61;
his sobriquet of “Chevalier”, 61;
reading aloud, 62;
an errand of mercy to Greece, 78-80;
chairman of Board of State Charities, 82-83;
commissioner for annexation of Santo Domingo, 84;
conflicting invitations to dinner, 85;
on domestic economy, 88;
letters to author, 89-90;
failure of annexation a disappointment to, 91;
revisits Santo Domingo, 91-99;
in Cuba, 101-104;
close companionship with author, 106;
and Grant’s reëlection, 108-109;
life at Portsmouth, 109-110;
sells Lawton’s Valley, 117;
purchase of Oak Glen, 117;
home in Mt. Vernon Street, 127;
his death and its influence on the author, 134;
memory cherished in Greece, 190, 191;
greatest achievement the education of Laura Bridgman, 228;
his daughter Laura’s memoir of, 330;
thoughts of a memorial to, 330
Howe, Samuel Gridley, Junior (the author’s brother), 5;
author’s first memory of, 6-7;
born at Green Peace, 33;
early death of, 33
Howells, William Dean, 226
Hubbard, Miss, in charge of Miss Wilby’s School, 58
Hubbard, Wilfranc, 325, 326
“Huggermuggers and Kobbletozo, The”, 29
“Humor and Philosophy of Woman Suffrage in England”, lecture by Samuels, 381
Hunker, Lieutenant John J., 188
“Hunkers”, 57
Hunt, Richard, 115, 116, 367, 368
Hunt, William M., 6;
studio of, 23;
author’s recollections of, 118-119;
home at Readville, 118;
frescoes in the Capitol at Albany, 119;
feeling toward Boston, 120;
studio first home of Art Association of Newport, 367-368;
studio acquired by John Elliott, 388-389
Huntress, Miss, 355
Hurlburt, William Henry, 266, 268
Hutchinson, Dr. Woods, 365

Iddings, Mr. and Mrs., 302
Ignazio, gardener at Palazzo Rusticucci, 320-321
“Imagination in Business”, Deland, 203
“In Darkest England”, Booth, 242
Indiana Place Chapel, first home of the Church of the Disciples, 47
International Peace Conference, Mrs. Howe’s appeal for an, 85
“Iron Chest, The”, first tragedy seen by author, 39
“Iron Woman, The”, Deland, 202
Irving, Sir Henry, preferred in melodrama and farce by author, 151; 237
Irving, Washington, and the Alhambra, 254
Irwin, Robert, 178
Ismaïl Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, 177;
visit to wives of, 179-181;
ball given by, 181, 183;
personal appearance, 181;
his creditable administration, 182;
deposed, 183
Italian Relief in World War, work for, 387
Italy, disappointment in Congress of Berlin in 1878, 169;
German infiltration of, 170;
birth of modern, 331;
ties that bind United States and, 331-332

J. See Elliott, John
Jackson, Patrick, 52
Jaffa, landing at, 184; 274
James, Arthur Curtis, 388
James, Henry (the elder), valued friend of Mrs. Howe, 22;
ranked as chief of “The Owls”, 22;
personal appearance, 22;
a “Roland for his Oliver”, 22-23;
writes of his childhood, 60
James, Mrs. Henry, 23
James, Henry (the younger), news of death of, 3;
characteristic utterance of, 3;
celebrates birthday at Palazzo Rusticucci, 3; 22;
studied art under William M. Hunt, 23; 60;
at Lawton’s Valley, 115;
author meets, in first London visit, 139, 140;
at Henry Harland’s home, 236;
wearies of London life, 237;
opinion of Mrs. Howe’s “Reminiscences”, 294;
his cure for lumbago, 305;
letter from, 307-308;
in failing health, 347; 368
James, Mrs. Robertson, 23
James, William, 22;
studied art under William M. Hunt, 23; 368
Jeannette, DeLong’s arctic expedition and the, 99-100
Jennings, Louis, 143, 257
Jerusalem, 185, 187
“Jessups”, a favorite schoolgirl confection, 49
“Jocko, the Brazilian”, first play seen by author, 38-39
Johnson, Hiram, 364, 365-366
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 387
Jones, William Safford, 370
Jouett, Admiral, 209

Kaiser, The. See William II, Emperor of Germany
Kalopothakis, Mr., appreciation of author’s father, 190
Kane, Captain, 209
Kansas City Star, 260
Kehew, Mrs., Progressive meeting at home of, 361
Kellar, Frances, 358
Keller, Helen, 228
Kemp, Miss, 299, 300
Kendal, Mr. and Mrs., 237
Kendall, William Sargeant, 351, 352, 369
Kenmare, Lady, 287, 294, 297
Kent, Alice, schoolmate of the author, 58;
a professional reader, 58
Key West, Florida, 104, 105
Kindergarten for the Blind, 228
King, Mrs. William W., Creole dinner at home of, 205;
hospitality of, 207
“King of the Golden River, The”, Ruskin, 29
Knox, Philander C., Secretary of State, 340

Labatt, Madame, 285
Ladysmith, siege of, 297
La Farge, John, 23,