[59] The widow of her uncle, William G. Ward.
[60] Andrew Johnson.
[61] Dr. Francis Lieber, the eminent German-American publicist.
[62] Mr. Howells, in his Literary Boston Thirty Years Ago, thus speaks of her (1895): "I should not be just to a vivid phase if I failed to speak of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and the impulse of reform which she personified. I did not sympathize with this then so much as I do now, but I could appreciate it on the intellectual side. Once, many years later, I heard Mrs. Howe speak in public, and it seemed to me that she made one of the best speeches I had ever heard. It gave me for the first time a notion of what women might do in that sort if they entered public life; but when we met in those earlier days I was interested in her as perhaps our chief poetess. I believe she did not care to speak much of literature; she was alert for other meanings in life, and I remember how she once brought to book a youthful matron who had perhaps unduly lamented the hardships of housekeeping, with the sharp demand, 'Child, where is your religion?' After the many years of an acquaintance which had not nearly so many meetings as years, it was pleasant to find her, not long ago, as strenuous as ever for the faith or work, and as eager to aid Stepniak as John Brown. In her beautiful old age she survives a certain literary impulse of Boston, but a still higher impulse of Boston she will not survive, for that will last while the city endures."
[63] Count Alberto Maggi, an Italian littérateur.
[64] At the Lexington Lyceum for the Monument Fund.
[65] This was evidently a meeting of the "Brain Club."
[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.