Front matter

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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).