Ward, Mary Grey [Dar]] 1820-1901 Mary Gray Ward Dorr Note on front of original: This written by my father's uncle Benj Ward T. W. W. Joshua Ward was born in the Towne of Hurr in the Country of Kent ( Old England) came to this country soon after the First settlement. Obtained a Lot and Settled in Salem. Was lost a Shallop fishing about the year 1677 or 78 (his widow maried a Mr Kezer) Left Issue Two Sons & three daughters viz: Joshua Ward who was killed in the Great Pasture by a cart whele going over his Neck at about 10 or 12 years of age. One daughter who maried a Mr Pitman of Marblehed One daughter who maried a Mr Collins. One daughter who maried a Mr Mosses. She deranged at times and was found drowned in a well up at Trask's Plains And Miles Ward born about the year 1672. He maried a Massey, daughter of Mr Massey who was the first male child born in the Massachusetts Collony. This left Issue four sons viz: Joshua, Miles, John 3c Ebenezer. He married a second wife, Sarah Ropes. She died 7 Febriy 1768 aged 86 years. He died 20 Aug't 1764 aged 921/2019 years. His son Joshua Ward, before mentioned, was born died aged He maried three wives. By the first he had issue sons and daughters. By his second wife he had issue By his third wife he had: Miles Ward born 16 Aprill 1704. He died 14 June 1792. He had two wives.By his first (a Webb) he had issue two Sons and Six daughters. By his second (a widow Hawthorne) he had issue - three sons and five daughters. 2. John Ward born Died He married a Higginson his first wife & had issue three sons and one daughter. His second wife, a Batter No issue. Ebenezer Ward born April 10, 1710 Died March 4, 1791 Aged 81 years. He Maried Rachel Pickman Born July 25, 1717 died Jan'y 7, 1789. They had issue five Sons and five daughters viz: William Ward born August 9, 1736; died Oct'r 9, 1767 on a passage from Jamaica. He mar ied Ruth Pytman born They had issue two sons and one daughter vist William Ward born Ruth Ward born died of a throat distemper May 25, 1770 Caleb Ward born died of a throat distemper May 28, 1770 Ebenezer Ward born 26 May 1738 died Oct'r 26, 1773. He marie Mehitable Buttolph. They had issue one son and five daughter Benjamin Ward born 18 Sept's 1739 maried Elizabeth Babbidge Nov'r 17, 1770. His first wife had issue three sons and three daughters who all died in Infancey. He maried a second wife Mary Carlton. Sarah Ward born July 19, 1741 Died Oct 17, 1754 Caleb Warn born Jan'y 12, 1743. Lost at Sea Jan'y 3, 1764. Miles Ward born July 12, 1744 died Oct'r 23, 1796. He maried Hanah Chipman. They had issue one Son & one Daughter. Rachel Ward born Jan'y 10, 1746. Maried to Edward Lang April 23, 1768. Had issue three sons & seven daughters. Abigail Ward born June 14, 1748 Maried William Hathorn Jun. Issue none. Essex Institute Historical Collections 5 (1863):201-219. 207 lward Tamer Creesey the daughter of Micall Cree- 1 ] Miles, who we find mentioned there sey dyed May 29 1716. in 1639. He came from Erith in Kent. a few Abggall Nelson daughter of Thomas and miles below London, on the Thames, and on- er 13 Hannah Nelson dyed August 26 1716. ly two miles from Crayford, with his wife Ezekill Lighton dyed August 24 1716. Margaret, and died in Virginia 3d. March, '09. Mary Foster the wife of Ebenezer Foster 1650. ward dyed 19 day of June 1716. SECOND GENERATION. Mary Palmer the wife of Deacon Samuel 2. Joshua, son of Miles1, born 25th. 9. Palmer dyed 7 day of July in 1716. April, 1641. Came to America with his 709. father, married Hannah, daughter of William omas MATERIALS FOR A GENEALOGY Flint 18th. Jan'y, 1669. mber OF THE WARD FAMILY IN SA- 3. son of Miles1, born, Mr. Sav- LEM - OR NOTICES OF THE DE- age says, 26th. Dec'r, 1641. The year is 1 Eli- SCENDANTS OF MILES WARD. probably wrong. 4. Lydia, daughter of Miles1, born 1647. COMPILED BY GEORGE R. CURWEN. Married Robert Glanfield 12th. July, 1665. r the Henry Ward,- Lord of the Manor of Kir- 5. Martha, daughter of Miles1, born by Beden, of the advowson and Manors of 11th. March, 1649. Married the 2d Pasca wyer Postwick and Great Plumstead and other es- Foote, 2d. Dec'r, 1668. tates in the adjacent townsbip, as also of the THIRD GENERATION. 705. Manor and Rectory on the site of the Monas- 6. Joshua, son of Joshua ², born 16th. ress- tery of Flitcham, and of the Manor of Bark- Jan'y, 1669. Administration on his estate, way Rectory in Hertfordshire,- - was a mem- was granted to Hannah Ward, widow, and e 20 ber of Parliament for Norwich in 1553 and mother of said deceased 30th. 9th. mo. 1680. 1562. He married Margaret, daughter of 7. 3 Hannah, daughter of Joshua ², mar- 711. William Uggs, of Pokethorp, near Norwich, ried Eleazer Moises 24th. June, 1697. 712. and had the following children:- 8. Miles, son of Joshua ², born 11th. Edward, Henry, Miles, Thomas, Margery, March, 1673-4. Married Sarah, daughter ay of Alice and Tobias. of John and Sarah (Wells) Massey, 1694. Among the early settlers of Salem, we She was born 25th. July, 1669, died 20th. 702. find mentioned the names of Miles, Margar- Nov'r, 1728. His 2d. wife was Sarah, nton et and Alice, the last two of which, bear a daughter of William and Sarah (Ingersoll) striking resemblance to Margery and Alice Ropes, who was born 9th. Jan'y, 1683, died Food mentioned above, and Miles being identical 7th Feb'y, 1768. He died 20th. August, with a son of Henry Warde, Lord of the 1764. Manor of Kirby Beden. Whether there was 9. 3 Mary, daughter of Joshua ², married kiell any relationship between the two families, is Adoniram Collins 20th. Nov'r, 1701, yet a subject of inquiry. 10. 3 A daughter, of Joshua ², who mar- Bur- ried Pitman. FIRST GENERATION. The ancestor of the Ward Family in Sa- FOURTH GENERATION. kard lem was, 11. *Joshua, son of Miles8, born 15th 208 August, 1699; married Sarah, daughter of 19. Sarah, daughter of Joshua ¹1, born Richard Trevett of Marblehead, 27th. Ap- 16th August, 1733; died 18th July, 1737. ril, 1722. They had issue four sons and 20. Martha, daughter of Joshua ¹1, born three daughters. She died 29th May, 1735; died 27th Nov'r, 1736. He married for a second wife, wid- 21. Martha, daughter of Joshua ¹1, born ow Lydia Hawkes, whose maiden name was 14th June, 1737; married William Webster Burrill, 21st Jan'y, 1744. She died Nov. 21, 1754; died Sept'r, 1775. His third wife was Ruth 22. "Richard, son of Joshua ¹1, born 5th Woodward of Gloucester, who died 5th. June, April, 1741; married Mehitable, daughter 1787, AE. 73, leaving no issue. He died of George and Sarah (Pickman) Curwen, 8th 29th. Dec'r, 1779. Nov'r, 1764. She died 4th April, 1813. 12. 4John, son of Miles born 27th. He died 4th Nov'r, 1824. Nov'r, 1701, died 4th. Sept'r, 1703. 23. Burrill, son of Joshua 11, by his sec- 13. 4 Miles, son of Miles8, born 18th. ond wife Lydia, born 29th Aug't, 1747; April, 1704; married 1st, Elizabeth, daugh- died 28th Feb'y, 1748. ter of John and Elizabeth (Phippen) Webb 24. Sarah, daughter of Miles13, born born 1709, died 17th April, 1737. He mar- 19th Oct'r, 1728; died 10th Aug't, 1729. ried, 2dly, Hannah, widow of Benjamin Hath- 25. Elizabeth, daughter of Miles13, born orne, 10th Oct'r, 1737, and died June 1792. 1730; died 11th April, 1737. 14. 4John, son of Miles8, born 7th. July, 26. Abigail, daughter of Miles13, born 1707, married, first, Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Gerrish) Higginson, 16th April, 1731; died 22d May, 1731. 17th. Sept'r, 1734. She was born 8th. 27. Abigail, daughter of Miles13, born Nov'r, 1712; married, 2dly Martha, daugh- 17th March, 1732; married Samuel Griffin ter of Edmund and Martha (Pickman) Bat- of Portsmouth, N. H., 7th Dec'r, 1752-3; ter, 14th Sept'r, 1758; born 21st Sept., married 2dly, John Bass. 1712, died 12th Oct'r, 1787. 28. Miles, son of Miles13, born 25th 15. 4Ebenezer, son of Miles8, born 10th July, 1633, died 10th Aug't, 1796; married April, 1710; married Rachel, daughter of Experience Goodell. Benjamin and Abigail (Lindall) Pickman, 29. 5 Sarah, daughter of Miles13, born 23d Oct'r, 1735. She was born 20th July, 1st March, 1734; married John Ives, 13th 1717, died 7th. Jan'y, 1789. He died 3d. March, 1754; died, 18th Oct'r, 1801. March, 1791. 30. 5 Anna, daughter of Miles¹3 born FIFTH GENERATION. 20th March, 1735; died 1st May 1737. 16. Joshua, son of Joshua ¹1, born 13th. 31. Ebenezer, son of Miles13, born 12th March, 1723; married Susanna Shores, He April, 1737, died 13th April 1737. was lost at sea, 1746. His widow married 32. Elizabeth, daughter of Miles 13 born Capt. Wm. Masury 2d, May, 1750. 9th July, 1738; married William Pool, of 17. Daniel, son of Joshua ¹1, born 25th Danvers, Mass., 1761; died October, 1725. Lost at sea 1746. June, 1806. 18. John, son of Joshua ¹1, born 25th 33. Samuel, son of Miles 13 born 30th June, 1729; married Abigail Phippen. April, 1740; married Priscilla, daughter of I of2 4 Mary Gray loand born sept. 29. 1820 Thomas liren ward married 13th nov. 1810. Lydria Gray hour nov. 20. 1786 b. July 30. 1788 died 4th march 1858. billiam word & his tha Proctor Samuel Gray b. Sec. us. 1761 b. 1762 d May 9. 1827 d Jany16,1788 William ward & Ruth Putnamin. Robert Proctor & Hannah Goodhue b. any. 9. 1736 17th may 1761. h. June 1732. send.,9. 1736 d. out. 9. 17h7 d. Feb. 1803. d. may 20.1766 / Ebencrer want & Rachel Pukman Thorndita Proctor Buy b. april 1071/11/0 b. July 25.1717 h.a d. much. 3. 1791 d. famy7.1789 d. miles ward & Sarah massey Beryamin Pukman & abigail Lindall ler march 11. h. Pet. 1673/4. b. b. fairy 30. 1471/2 b.15. June 1681 to d. any. 20. 1704 died 20 march d. april 1714 it. a 1728.08.58yrs. / Joshua Ward, from & Harmah a Flink Kenjamin Puhman Timithy Lindall & many veren born in Eng. 25 april 1641, To at Lewen meal, Installing came to amerrea with d his father. married 8th jany in 1645 came to am enica 1669. in abbl. mar. Elin abeth Hundy, July 27.16by, a I an of miles ward came from Erith in Kent there miles below London on the Thames, with his wife margaret he died in verginia 3°. march I 650. MHS. T.W Ward Papers. B 8 F 3 . I of 2 Goodhue : 1736 20,1766 Bergamin & martha Harry b.all b.Flb. 2f. 17 10/11 d. Juny 10.1783 at datem d. sent. 9. 1769 billiam Goodware & many Lowden, Joseph Handy & Sarah suking b. 7. July 25. 168b a. d. all & many veren Joseph Goodhure & Sarah whipple John Pikening & sarah Burrill Z. b. sept. 10. 1658 d. d.fune 14.1722 William Growhere & John Pikening & alien Flint b. 1612 b.1b3y- S. may 5. 1644 b. d. 1700. John Pukening b. about 1615 Mary G. W. Darr THOMAS WREN WARD OF BOSTON FAMILY TREE (Compiled by Ronald H. Epp, August 2019) William W. & Ruth Putnam Of Salem William W. (1761-1827) m. 1. Martha Proctor (1762-1788); 2. Joanna 'Nancy' Chipman (1761- ) Thomas Wren Ward (1786-1858) m. Lydia Gray W. (1788-1874), daughter of Samuel Gray (1760-1816) m. Anna Orne (1767-1797) Samuel Gray George Cabot Martha Mary Gray William Mary Gray John Thomas Wm. (1817-1907) (1824-87) (1812-53) (1816-19) (1819-30) (1820-1901) (1822-56) (1831-59) m. 1840 m. 1850 William Dorr Anna Hazard Barker W. daughter of Jacob & Eliza Barker Charles Hazen Dorr (1851-76) (1813-1902) (1821-1893) George B. Dorr (1853-1944) Anna Barker Ward Lydia Gray Ward Elizabeth Barker Ward Thomas Wren Ward (1841-75) (1843-1929) (1850-1920) (1844-1940) m. 1862 m. 1870 m. m. 1872 Joseph Thoron Baron Richard F. Baron Ernst Schoenberg Sophia Read Howard (1828-1901) Von Hoffman (1850- ) (1849-1918) Maria Louisa Lt. Col. George C. Elizabeth Howard Ward Howard Ridgely Ward (1864-1950) (1876-1936) (1873-1954) (1881-1946) m. m. 1901 m. 1896 m. 1905 T.W. Ward Wm. Crowninshield Justine Cutting Charles Bruen Perkins* Beatrice Kidder Elizabeth Endicott Jr. (1860-1929) Beatrice (1860-1936) Ward P.L.F.F.S. Thoron Francis Anna Elinor Mary * 'son of Charles (1867-1938) Davenport 'Nancy' Perkins Perkins Callahan Perkins & Perkins Perkins Mansfield Ryan Frances D. Bruen (1897-1970) (1899-1993) (1900-70) (1912-93) 4 ancestry Mary Gray Ward 1820-1901 Age 0 - Birth 29 September 1820 . Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of Ameri- Parents ca Thomas Wren Ward 1786-1858 Age 1 - Birth of Brother John G Ward (1822-1856) 12 Sep 1822 Lydia Gray 1788-1874 Age 4 - Birth of Brother George Cabot Ward (1824-) 4 Nov 1824 Spouse & Children Age 9 - Death of Brother William Ward (1819-1830) Charles Hazen Dorr 1821-1893 24 Jun 1830 William Ward Dorr 1851-1876 Age 10 - Birth of Brother Thomas William Ward (1831-1857) 3 Sep 1831 George Bucknam Dorr 1853-1944 Age 29 - Marriage 4 Jun 1850 . Boston, Massachusetts Charles Hazen Dorr (1821-1893) Age 30 - Birth of Son William Ward Dorr (1851-1876) 31 January 1851 . Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of Ancestry Sources America 1870 United States Federal Census Age 33 - Death of Sister Martha Ann Ward (1812-1853) 2 Nov 1853 1880 United States Federal Census Age 33 - Birth of Son George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944) 1880 United States Federal Census 29 December 1853 . Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America Ancestry Family Trees Age 35 - Death of Brother John G Ward (1822-1856) Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980 5 Jan 1856 Age 37 - Death of Brother Thomas William Ward (1831-1857) Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 3 Dec 1857 Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 Age 37 - Death of Father Thomas Wren Ward (1786-1858) 4 Mar 1858 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Age 50 - Residence Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 1870 Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Post Office: Canton Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850 Age 54 - Death of Mother Lydia Gray (1788-1874) North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 9 Oct 1874 Age 55 - Death of Son William Ward Dorr (1851-1876) U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current 15 May 1876 New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, United States of America Age 60 - Residence 1880 Eden, Hancock, Maine, USA Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Self 42 Age 72 - Death of Husband Charles Hazen Dorr (1821-1893) 28 January 1893 . Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America Age 81 - Death 21 October 1901 . Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America Burial Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America 0.5.Tryon Parnassus Corner. 1963 312 The Promised Land 1867-1868 313 flowers had been distributed everywhere in Dickens' suite. The talk - Annie fancied Dickens was bored with Holmes, who most dazzling experience in Fields' life had begun, the beginning got the floor and would not give it up - but the laughter of a cult of adoration by the Fieldses who were otherwise per dissipated any tedium. Holmes was expatiating on how unap- fectly sober and sane people. preciative were some audiences. He remembered when his James and Annie Fields gathered Charles Dickens in as one landlady had accompanied him to his lecture before a full house. of their very own. The attentions, the honors, the deference, the Her face was the only one which relaxed its grimness. "Prob- pride, the appreciation, which all their lives they had bestowed ably because she saw money enough in the house," rejoined on all the literary figures they knew, now faded to nothingness Dickens, "to cover your expenses." in the concentration of their efforts toward Dickens. It would For as long as Dickens was in Boston, and whenever he re- have taken a Thoreau to resist such blandishments and Dickens turned there from his travels, he had dinner or supper with the was no Thoreau. Like most great and creative artists he was Fieldses at least twice a week and frequently more often. Once filled with a sense of self-importance, of self-interest, and self he ate alone with Fields but such an event was rare. Usually esteem. He took their attentions almost as his due and basked Fields selected a choice group and had them in to partake of in the all but suffocating excesses of the Fieldses' love. the company of the great man with him. One night George There was hardly a moment when they were not at his side. Hillard and Annie's numerous relatives were the guests. At the They gave him suppers and dinners. They attended all his rcad. Christmas dinner, served a day early because of Dickens' en- ings in Boston and many elsewhere. They introduced him to gagements, but complete with roast beef and plum pudding all the right people. Everywhere it was apparent that, however ordered by Annie from England for the occasion, were Lowell sincere this devotion of the Fieldses was to him, and it was and his daughter Mabel, and Mr. and Mrs. Dorr. At others sincere, Fields had captured his lion. Except for once, when appeared Holmes, Celia Thaxter, or William Dean Howells. It he dined at Longfellow's, 11 he accepted no hospitality in Boston became a matter of distinction and social prestige to be invited, save that offered at Charles Street. There in small but select like a presentation at Court, and there were heart-burnings and groups day and night Fields exhibited his conquest. even ill feeling from those who were not. The entertainment began almost immediately after Dickens They were merry parties though a later generation would have had settled in at the Parker House. On the second night from found them rather simple. They told anecdotes and ghost his arrival Fields gave a grand dinner. Save for Annie, who stories, reminisced about their famous friends, played charades presided at one end of the table in the Charles Street dining and games described as "Buzz" and "Russian Scandal." What- room, and who looked like a "pensive Burne-Jones," Dickens ever they did the laughter never ceased; there were "storms of said, it was an all male gathering. On Annie's right in the seat laughter," "inextinguishable laughter," and "endless laughter." of honor sat Dickens; on her left Professor Agassiz. Along the The supper parties which followed the readings were even table on each side toward Fields, who presided at the other gayer. There were fewer guests and the atmosphere was more end, ranged Emerson, Judge Hoar, Holmes, Nathaniel Greene, generally relaxed. Dickens mixed up an elaborate punch on Charles Eliot Norton, and Longfellow. There was endless these occasions and to the games they played they added much Crusading for Children by RAY S. HUBBARD The MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY for the PREVENTION of CRUELTY to CHILDREN 43 MOUNT VERNON STREET BOSTON a mall12436 1946 246703 917thal massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Table of Contents + Chapter Page I THE UNPROTECTED CHILD 5 II BACKGROUND OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY 11 III FROM RESCUE TO PREVENTION 21 IV STATE-WIDE EXPANSION 25 V DISTRICT AND BRANCHES IN ACTION 29 VI CHILD PROTECTION-ITS FUNCTION-CASE STORIES 41 VII WINNING FINANCIAL SUPPORT 51 VIII SOCIETY-SPONSORED LEGISLATION 57 IX ADMINISTRATION AND TECHNICAL MATTERS 63 X OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS-1878 TO 1943 79 2 qHV 742 M4H8 / 946 Background of the Society The Massachusetts Society Comes Into Being Pioneers of the child-protective movement in the Bay State met serious problems and setbacks. First formal agency was the Massachu- setts Children's Protective Society, organized in 1877. Of this group we have little record. There seems, however, to have been considerable dissatisfaction with the management and character of the work done. This criticism led to the incorporation on April 23, 1878, of another agency, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Prominent among the original incorporators were Mrs. Sarah W. Thorndike and Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells. Mrs. Wells stated, "We be- came interested in forming the Society upon hearing of several cases of children being placed upon hot stoves for punishment, and of many instances of children suffering with bad skin diseases." Mrs. Wells further declared that credit for originating the idea of the Massachusetts Society belongs to Mrs. Thorndike. Dr. John H. Dixwell, first general agent of the Society, directed its affairs during the rather tempestuous period when it was little known and greatly misunderstood. Friction between the two then existing child-protective groups hindered winning of public confidence; but a secure foundation for later work was built during 1878 and 1879. Intense rivalry lasted more than a year. Then, with resignations of the general agents of both organizations late in 1879, came the chance for co-operation. Six directors' meetings were held, plans for union discussed, and necessary committees appointed. Twenty-six directors of both societies attended a joint meeting on January 28, 1880, and union was effected. At the first meeting of the united bodies, on February 4, 1880, Robert E. Apthorp was unanimously elected president. Ballots decided the name of the merger: nine members voted for the "Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children" and seven for the "Massachusetts Children's Protective Society." Constitution and by-laws were adopted at later meetings. Among early vice-presidents and directors were Phillips Brooks, William Gaston, John D. Long, Henry W. Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Josiah Quincy, Russell H. Conwell, Mrs. James K. Mills, and Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells. 13 Crusading for Children To the office of general agent came on May 1, 1880, a man with exceptional experience in many fields of social work. He was Frank B. Fay, who from 1840 to 1850 had been a prominent member of the Massa- chusetts Prisoners' Aid Association. He was first to petition for estab- lishment of the Girls' Reform School at Lancaster, and was a member of the State Senate in 1857. He served as mayor of Chelsea from 1861 to 1863. During the Civil War, he was with the Sanitary Commis- sion of the Army of the Potomac, aiding sick and wounded on the field and in hospitals. Again, in 1867, he was in the State Senate. And from 1872 to 1879 he was agent of the Mass. Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Fay served as general agent of the Mass. S. P. C. C. until 1903, retiring at the age of eighty-two. A Third Society for Child Protection One other event of interest to record before the new merger had a completely open field. Dr. Dixwell, first S. P. C. C. general agent, resigned in September, 1879, and started a third unit with kindred pur- poses. It was named the Society for Lost, Stolen, or Abused Children. Henry L. Gurney was president and Dr. Dixwell, secretary. Offices were at 6 Pemberton Square, Boston. Much good was accomplished by this association, whose principal object seems to have been to "liberate all Italian slaves in New England." It had been a common practice in the early 1800's to kidnap children in Italy for exploitation in the United States. Kidnapping had almost ceased by 1880, but the abuse meanwhile had entered another phase. Children were purchased directly from their parents by padrones (as the buyers were called) for an average of eighty dollars each. The luckless youngsters were thereupon shipped to America for service as actors, beggars, gymnasts, and other kinds of workers. Readers of books for boys may remember Horatio Alger's "Phil, the Fiddler," which attacked the padrone system. The evil became SO glaring that the Padrone Act was written into Federal Law. Among the first children rescued by the Society for Lost, Stolen, or Abused Children was Antone Fredotti, a victim of the padrones. With a huge tumor about the size of a basketball on his neck, he was 14 Crusading for Children Advisory Counsel Directors Term of Service Term of Service STACKPOLE, J. LEWIS 1882-1904 BROOKS, MRS. WILLIAM G. 1885-1903 LYMAN, GEORGE H. 1882-1914 BROWN, HOWARD W 1913-1917 GRAY, JOHN CHIPMAN 1904-1906 BULLARD, MRS. JOHN R. 1886-1901 LOWELL, JOHN 1906-1912 BULLARD, Miss MARY 1887-1888 SALTONSTALL, ENDICOTT P. 1912-1914 BURR, FRANCIS H. 1937- LOWELL, JAMES ARNOLD 1912-1922 BURRAGE, Miss J. 1884-1886 PEABODY, W. RODMAN 1922-1941 BURRAGE, DR. WALTER L. 1890-1901 STOREY, CHARLES M. 1941-1942 CABOT, FREDERICK S. 1880-1884 CABOT, MRS. J. ELLIOT 1880-1881 CABOT; DR. SAMUEL 1880-1884 CASTLE, CLIFFORD D. 1937- General Secretaries CHAPMAN, Miss MARGARET R. 1887-1920 CHILDS, ALFRED A. 1878-1884 DIXWELL, DR. JOHN H. 1878-1879 CHOATE, MRS. CARLISLE E. 1913-1919 FAY, FRANK B. 1880-1903 CHURCH, MRS. FREDERIC C., JR. 1926-1928 MORTON, CHARLES K. 1903-1907 CHURCH, MRS. FREDERIC C. 1936- CARSTENS, CARL C. 1907-1921 CLIFFORD, JOHN H. 1917-1924 LOTHROP, THEODORE A. 1921- CODMAN, CHARLES R. 1882-1883 CODMAN, RUSSELL S. 1901-1919 CONVERSE, MRS. PARKER 1931- CONVERSE, MRS ROGER W. 1935- Directors CONWELL, REV. RUSSELL H. 1880-1881 COOLIDGE, A. L. 1880-1881 ABBOT, MRS. HENRY W. 1882-1883 CORDNER, MISS ELIZABETH P. 1894-1916 ADAMS, CHARLES F., JR. 1937- COTTING, CHARLES E. 1915-1922 AMORY, WILLIAM 1895-1896 COTTING, CHARLES E. 1928- ANDERSON, O. KELLEY .1939- CUCKSON, REV. JOHN 1893-1901 ANDREW, JOHN F. 1887-1895 CUMMINGS, CHARLES K. 1904- APTHORP, ROBERT E. 1878-1882 CUMMINGS, MRS. CHARLES JR. 1938-1943 ASPINWALL, MRS. WILLIAM H. 1901-1918 CUNNINGHAM, MRS. EDWARD 1896-1908 ATKINSON, CHARLES F. 1881-1914 CUSHING, GRAFTON D. 1903-1935 ATKINSON, REV. EDWARD L. 1896-1898 ATKINSON, GEORGE CUTLER, MRS. B. PRESTON 1935-1943 1893-1894 ATKINSON, Miss SUSAN P. 1897-1911 DANIELSON, MRS. RICHARD E. 1932- ATKINSON, MRS. WILLIAM P. 1883-1892 DAVIS, MRS. JOSEPH E. 1891-1392 AYRES, Miss HELEN F. 1882-1890 DAY, FRANK A. 1901-1914 AYRES, JOHN 1880-1888 DENNISON, MRS. HENRY S. 1917-1922 BACON, MRS. GASPAR G. 1921- DERBY, MRS. GEORGE 1880-1891 BAKER, GEORGE BRAMWELL 1931-1937 DERBY, DR. WILLIAM P. 1894-1909 BAKER, MRS. GEORGE BRAMWELL 1938- DEVEGH, MRS. IMRE 1942-1942 BANCROFT, ROBERT H. 1888-1901 DEXTER, GORDON 1917-1920 BATCHELDER, MRS. SAMUEL L. 1938- DORR, MRS. CHARLES H. 1880-1883 BIGELOW, ALBERT F. 1912-1931 DORR, GEORGE B. 1880-1883 BIGELOW, Miss ANNA S. 1878-1880 DORR, MRS. JOSEPH .1916-1919 BIGELOW, JOSEPH S. 1878-1913 DRUM, JOHN D. 1907-1913 BLAKE, DR. GERALD 1923-1927 DUMARESQ, FRANCIS 1897-1902 BLAKE, MRS. S. PARKMAN 1887-1895 BLOOMFIELD, DANIEL 1930- EDES, MRS. R. T. 1884-1887 BOUVE, WALTER L. 1880-1884 ELLIS, DAVID A. 1923-1929 BRADFORD, MRS. STANDISH 1927- EVERETT, MISS FLORENCE 1881-1890 BRADLEY, RICHARDS 1883-1884 FAIRCHILD, MRS. CHARLES 1881-1882 BREWER, MRS. THOMAS M. 1881-1885 FARNSWORTH, Miss ALICE 1887-1888 BREWSTER, MRS GEORGE W. W. 1935- FAY, FRANK B. 1884-1904 BROOKS, MRS. ARTHUR 1901-1906 FAY, MRS. JOSEPH S., JR. 1914-1915 80 M.HS. MsN -380. B.2,f.16. them was a lady was all 5 and d away Thus far the Great, has moh with no mishap Bar Harbor all 1.00mg To the skill ang.igh of Laptu Laurence minot - my dear youtea of what you mush have many thanks hend I are 150 glad for you placount to hear you and its intertaining account are going up to Law of you journag and you you ank have a splended safe anwah wh dair Wand lune 1 Give much live baurusi- 4 I sad you thank to you and may her long letter to also was accidents are fort rate from g enjoy that /N/T when the bash proof of has has they and boking they mg 9 hined I bagar to always seem to have 1 fact a little un pastest 15 H2 hava had several get have - his alice, 25 starm in has revolution no labily the mosh exacting, the George Daur ,and To relation with the hot mp Dandya baing Ran weather is over - She sand away with in al light you her love the Luyu have higgy the have to weing all wacked It Grad Hand through the man Shoot, this afternoon to dea the surf loke mid , when ,an very anforty you When [Mary Gray Ward? chwahic Histan man squall, shuck hav, and mished /mm The piagga wa he want ha losh of the Rodick Handa sauged the hidla ruth me hand his cargo but was picked of hunsey Betting an the and closed the hares nostuls with the other Kas Lry his improsed and saved There lives - both x the north day mip Dandge like a the Portsmonth that stapp two sarlan buys from sanville gut faulted - of was thought they would the always mese to faced by a canve ; has They because A prevents a young laby from jumpang fash from the shop, when had hardly got a handred and / and when The vshi over they want, and che upsels she falls had to be pickarh up suscly - so when (harlee by and of the ships but nuns, of you are not and three neights, ago, driving and don't want a nice yachh returning to say who a / you freth from Hawcook ran night faugh 7 A is is so interesting into salvadges ladge jen a few days afterwards the area bag, and a man was seeling into sank but all the people the harbar from Salhuru on hand had time to with a boat.load, of get into the Lander that pash esystallso, when a was Towed behind and OASIS Page 1 of 1 Harvard University Library Questions or comments Copyright Statement OASIS Search OASIS: Online Archival Search Information System Full Finding Aid Summary: Context Bring main window to front Easy print view Help Sa Howe family. Papers of the Howe-Richards family: Guide. (MS Am 2215 ) [Persistent ID: nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01498] Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University (350) Howe, Julia (Ward) 1819-1910 Letters to Mary (Ward)DOER http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/xslTransform?histno=1&xslFileName=Title.xsl&t.. 9/26/2011 owe family. Papers: Guide. Page 1 of 110 MS Am 2119 Howe family. Papers: Guide. Chard, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library (i) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 C 2003 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Descriptive Summary Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University Location: b Call No.: MS Am 2119 Creator: Howe family. Title: Papers, Date(s): 1819-1910. Quantity: 21 boxes and 44v. (8.0 linear ft.) Abstract: Correspondence and records of the Howe family of Massachusetts. Administrative Information Processing Information: In July of 2003 this collection was rehoused and the items were renumbered. The letters themselves were numbered when the original finding aid was prepared and no longer reflect their current item number. See internal file for concordance of old numbers to new numbers. Acquisition Information: *44M-314 *45M-344 *46M-67 *46M-212 Gift of Miss Rosalind Richards in memory of Laura Elizabeth Richards; received: 1944- 1945, and 1946 April and October. Historical Note http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/hou00398.html 5/28/2004 Film 06-4442 bMS Am 2119 (202-207) Dorr, Mary Gray Letters, 1839-1842 ARCHIVAL NEGATIVE MICROFILM HOUGHTON LIBRARY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA 4 # 202: Mary Gray (Ward) Don to J.W.H. Boston 10/3/39. X # 203 : . 10/23/1839. . 5/1/1940? 4 # 204: it # 205: Unsigned to JWH. 1840? I # 206: 12/11/1841 . 2/26/1842. # 207: bMS Am 2119 (202)-(207) Dorr, Mary Gray (Ward). Letters; [1839]-1842. - 1 folder. Miss Rosalind Richards in memory of Laura Elizabeth Richards *44M-314;*46M-67;*46M-212 1944-1946 THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY Microfilm on file No. 4442 My Wench And beat. Thursday loining Oct B. [F39] much and you a line by m Cogements h tell you how much I love you, hm sad I am h have lift you agam I soon, and how much I have thought of you for the last two days. I have promised you hot to speak to you again of what you told me m Tuesday hight and Io cannot Jay much which I frould frich to but I conjuse you. my dearesh to Inlin to think of all that you mll have to incometer, and to look on both sides of the picture before you determine irresocably Think of how much you mill require from me h whom your whole life And yourself are given, And be lure that he for whom you make this eacripie and h whom you give your whole heart is mathy / of pottering it - Im are not like the wild would acarest, neither a you judge with the lyes of the walk Mil with you marriage hald ither be the mark terrible Calamity or the greatest bleeding which Cold fall upon you- Think of this, I pray you and as not lightly enter into any engagement with one h whom you Cannot give your Whole mind as nell as heart. ink you not for my Dake for the Take your him deauth listen Mary think 7 this more beciusly than for love am and hills you not forgive her for having spoker that operly to has you If I more with you, I hald on my three beseech you to pands and in no may to bind yarley farther than you have already done until another - year shall have passed over you- - account I love you Io much that I tremble for you. Timill how much own happiness is bound up in yours twith how much your Father's is, and remember too that yours is no common character And that it right to be Committed to the change of no common person, ht to one who could feel that you destiny is a noble one, and who Wash thase it with you In he of whom you how think Such a being If he is, you Inil he happy with him. it you doubt it then & fear much for you- May God blen you my swall listen and quick you bright n the much current prayer 7 Your nun Mary - I Mis Inlin hand- Newport. R.I. Sig. I x. # 203 Knik Boston. October 23. 1939 Wednesday mm. dearger Inter his I love you Mish I more THE Ave. am both Ind ana happy. a for you Sand moments, acaret. and happy they secsibly happy in your love. Before I thew Sules, I tax no friend. I had anamh such a being Visit I had never founa each, of and hear hopey to - thought that such a friend I had premises to mysey in my many hours forest hoh cych N if Inch aid thous I might meee much 20 jair a spirit, and thot In month I aia to My life an has being completely isolated and alone. have livew in a hald of any am. far different ind from the by which I am surrounded I each year shall be More Indily Separated from it more letterly alme_ Soon after I treath to hewport Near Even and I meh you The being of my dream was before me had I berven to malle you my frience- many line, I feaux that I had failed, many hines did come head despair inh This I hopea, and at length / have Inceeded. as you Wonder lulu that I love you as I do he I think not in you two Kum what it is to live alme Mm too have a new existence how opened before you. - I grieve that my lash letter Jaddened you I mcauh noh that in should has my heart was full and I fech that I much speak to you. in one thing however you quite misunderstood me. limity you Mid hot luppole I could mean by your " live epist any aliusion to your friend. Beleve me diarest I could have no Inch thought mt while I more feuboring I was thinking of that spirit of melancholy, and of sadmen which leemed to me to h Heigh upon you ah the times you last mot to me from newport, and I Knew how hard it NM of 4 cape and I mork earnerlly mihue that you might G cape from it I believe him to he high minded and hmmanle a you frould not think of him, and through I can handy think him Wathy of you, yeh who is there that is ? If ah the mil of a year you feeling are still the Jame, then I shall beleive him to be all that now hope he is, for I think your health cannoh err. Meanshile I Cmul noh be 10 aujust to him as to think by him in any other higher than that of me when you love and who therefor much be all that is pure and noble. In two months I shall be mith you. It leems he if I well not They w think of this often though and for the rist time, I would mish to hacter the days and the hours, and give them things of Tenfold swittern But when Christmas comes thew mmea I mish I have them hause and give me time to be happy.- This Botton in such a quiet place that have nothing to lew you of it, fin would I change are J.NeWRid Miss Inha Name. Care of. Samt Ward.Eq: New York Hanvard University Houghom Lebrary. Howe Family Papers. 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I am quit latified to have come here - and am phaned milk the look of 3 of a them here He was university mt the Four of Signature head M the job of Jane - interest and Communication from that is there = : 1 I believe I have you the Cream of the letter the zer is That concer's concer's of camel and In the feve it from Firmt fend you the little hil I am afraid pr with time if All will here form How 4of4 Mr Alley andrew h high thed action for John chine disare for it which he batlex fuffered Did you get a letter mr daif thank had almost a mind of come 1 Ba me Into believe with was inconclusive home John 15 of Boston. my mother's am the Daths Son of Charles was may H. for Plain. thas I was form, Decempt 29th 1853 at Jamaien Roston. Gray Ward, the daughter of Thomas W. Waid of to about America and sellied in the town of Roxbacy my ancellor, Edward Don, edine the year 1660 ; his son, Edeband Dort, thiendon , mass. i his Son Jose, ph Dorr. was of was a Presbyterine minister in the town a judge in the U. S. circuit court for lioncester county his son, Samuel Dorr, was a merchant in the city of Boston: his son, Charles H. Dorr, is my father. William waid and of my mother was the I lived they in Jamaida of Plain Salem. until seven years old course. ; afterno uts. in Boston, until my college of E.S. the Difebell of Boston. I entered college I pre pared for college at the school at age of Sixteen part I of my senior year in Europe. I chassed the greater during my Sophorhone year. was a member of the Institute of 1770, in no. 18 Harwald Block, chamming with During my Freshman year I roomed David I Sears, of Boston my last Three years When about 15 years old I joined the Efiscol nonued in no. 18 Holy oke House, alone. for a couple of years. and, for after that church, in Boston. I intend to study abroad my plans are undecided George Bucknam Dorr.Js Harvard University Archives. Class Book of 1874. Page 229. (Copy. Miss Julia Ward to Miss Mary G. Ward) Yellow House Papers. RG. 18. Tuesday 10th [circa 1841] My dearest Mary, I have been sadly neglectful in not writing to you, but must plead in my excuse a suffering mind and body - the former uncertain and dissatisfied in some degree, the latter languid and weary from a week of dissination. I am now resting, and my first impulse is to throw myself at your feet, and to ask your pardon for all my sins. Now do not freeze me by a long silence, or worse still, a cold admon- itory letter, for I have been unable to write, and cannot even now hope to write any thing worth reading. But you, who for three weeks were but two nights at home, you can feel with, and consequently ex- cuse me. How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this zoing out. I feel it. I have striven to be myself, every where, to retain my own principles and notions of things, and so I hope to get through the winter without any more serious evil than the loss of time, and the ruin of ball dresses. The former of these is serious enough, but I wanted to see something of society, it seemed hardly fair that I should never give myself an opportunity of judging, and being judged by it. I have weighed this too in the balance, and have, of course, found it wanting. Some enjoyment I have of course had, even a good deal, but of a kind which I shall not, I think, seek again. We shall 30 out during the remainder of this month, but shall stop in February. Our own party comes on Friday night, I wish you could come to it, as I wish I could have gone to yours, but I suppose the one will be as impossible as the other would have been. We have given nearly 200 invitations, which comprise the cream of New York society - of course. one third of these will decline. The cerpet is taken up, and the floor planed, in one room, the other is covered with a inencloth - the music will be beautiful, and the whole - if you could come, John 2. C. S. will bring you, he is now in Boston, or James Lawrence, who has promised to come on. I must thank you for the yellow wreath, it is very pretty, and more becoming than any thing I have. I wear it en couronne, around my head, a little low in front, with the two roses at the left side, they do not wear wreaths around the braid now, but on the top of the head, a little on one side. In the name of wonder. what do you mean by saying that Jeanie is engaged? is she really unfaithful to Uncle John? fie upon her - and William Story, what does he marry that young girl for? she is surely not thorough-bred. As to Lizzie Lyman, I wish her joy, as to Tim, I wish you joy, and think you might do worse - as to myself, I am not engaged to no good man, who will take care of me - but I may be I have a sweet and most touching letter from Sam Eliot, which has brought him back to me in all his beauty - but he is dying, poor child T shall write again. Dearest Molly, when shall I see you again? shall I come to you, or will you come to me? I hope to be with you in any case soon - what is the us e of my writing any more, I am not fit company for anv reasonable being - take the will for the deed - I hope soon to be myself again. but in the interim, love me and be kind to me. Your Jules 2. C. S. will bring you, he is now in Boston, or James Lawrence, who has promised to come on. I must thank you for the yellow wreath, it is very pretty, and more becoming than any thing I have. I wear it en couronne, around my head, a little low in front, with the two roses at the left side, they do not wear wreaths around the braid now, but on the top of the head, a little on one side. In the name of wonder, what do you mean by saying that Jeanie is engaged? is she really unfaithful to Uncle John? fie upon her - and William Story, what does he marry that young girl for? she is surely not thorough-bred. As to Lizzie Lyman, I wish her joy, as to Tim, I wish you joy, and think you might do worse - as to myself, I am not engaged to no good man, who will take care of me - but I may be - I have a sweet and most touching letter from Sam Eliot, which has brought him back to me in all his beauty - but he is dying, poor child . T shall write again. Dearest Molly, when shall I see you again? shall I come to you, or will you come to me? I hope to be with you in any case soon - what is the us e of my writing any more, I am not fit company for anv reasonable being - take the will for the deed - I hope soon to be myself again. but in the interim, love me and be kind to me. Your Jules [Julia Ward] Copy (Miss Julia Ward to Miss Mary G. Ward) Yellow House Papers, R618 Tuesday 17th My dearest Molly, [Circa 1841 Very glad was I to get your letter, which was as kind as it was short. You do not know how reviving the expression of warm and disinterested regard is, in this dry and barren world - you do not know, for Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational, and happy. I long for its green pastures and still waters, its pure intellectual atmosphere and its sunlight of kindness and truth - as you would long for them if you had been where I have been, and what I have been, these three last months. Lou is very anxious to come also, but we cannot leave home at the same time, as Annie is too drooping to be left to herself - she has returned from Washington a little better and brighter, but still miserable, and in a curious state - her mind seeming to require con- tinual excitement, her body continual repose. I should be too happy to send her to you with Lou, will you promise to make her better for us? then I will wait a little, and still come to vou early next month - my only fear is, lest we should, among us, take up too much of your time, and I know that no interruptions to a pleasant course of study can be perfectly welcome - but the girls will make far less demand upon your time than I shall - for are there not John and Geordie, and Martha for the one, and Fanny Bruen for the other? - so, you would just be kind to them and let them take care of themselves - but. shall I not be happy when I come to you? yes indeed - this visit to vou is always the resting point of the whole winter, and makes it word erfully shorter. I have no news to tell you. save that our party went off beau- tifully - the planed floor was smooth as glass - the music heavenly - the supper superb - we danced till two, and then sat down with John 2. Astor, Dickson, and half a dozen more, to a "private sp read" which was very funny and pleasant. Apropos des vanités. I must describe to you mv toilet of last night - it was so verv prettv - a dress of pale blue silk, with blue lace over it, looped up with white cam- elias, the sleeves very short, and trimmed with white flowers - a guirlande à la victime on my head, that is, the high classic wreath, raised in front, composed of white roses, jasmines, etc., and be auti- fully put on - but bah! I have worn a nobler diadem than that, and shall again, I hope. You will probably receive this letter from Albinola, whom you have met at our house - he asked me for a letter to you, and will come and see you. Be kind to him, for he is a good fellow, and well received here in society. I shall send you before long mv little non- sense verses, which are being printed in the Democratic. T cannot write any more - I am very tired, having gone to bed at three o'clock, this morning, and got up at half past eight. Mv heart is with you - but my wits are gone a wool garhering, and are like to find great cry and little wool. Write me soon, and tell me about those engagements, which, not being contradicted, I have taken for gospel - good bve, my darl ing - heaven bless you - Your Jules Coggie, not Albinola, will bring you my letter - things have changed at home since it was written - I fear dear Lou cannot come. 2. Astor, Dickson, and half a dozen more, to a "private sp read" which was very funny and pleasant. Apropos des vanités. I must describe to you my toilet of last night - it was so verv prettv - a dress of pale blue silk, with blue lace over it, looped up with white oam- elias, the sleeves very short, and trimmed with white flowers - a guirlande à la victime on my head, that is, the high classic wreath, raised in front, composed of white roses, jasmines, etc., and be auti- fully put on - but bah! I have worn a nobler diadem than that, and shall again, I hope. You will probably receive this letter from Albinola, whom you have met at our house - he asked me for a letter to you, and will come and see you. Be kind to him, for he is a good fellow, and well received here in society. I shall send you before long my little non- sense verses, which are being printed in the Democratic. T cannot write any more - I am very tired, having gone to bed at three o'clock, this morning, and got up at half past eight. Mv heart is with you - but my wits are gone a wool garhering, and are like to find great cry and little wool. Write m6 soon, and tsll me about thos e engagements. which, not being contradicted, I have taken for gospel - good bye, my darling - heaven bless you - Your Jules [Julia Ward] Coggie, not Albinola, will bring you my letter - things have changed at home since it was written - I fear dear Lou cannot come. Nov. 19, 1938. I of d I had the rare good fortune of having in my father and my mother two people with a delightful gift of narrative. What they told of lived. My father was the more reserved but he had a delightful sense of humor and I find myself still at stories he told me of his youth -- objectively always, for of his inner self I never heard him talk. It was too intimate and personal. My mother had a wonderful gift of description and drew a wide circle of younger folks about her always when she was in the mood to talk. So that between them the time of their own childhood lived again for me. My mother had wonder description power, making feel with her what she had felt herself and felt again in recording it. But neither she nor any of my grandfather/ Ward's family which had the gift of humor,/my father and his sister, my much-loved anut, had so strongly. I have often thought wherein it was that humor lay. It is I think the faculty of seeing things from twc contrasting points of view and with detschment, not taking them too seriously. Humor needs sympathy, it involves it; but if the sympathy be too strong or the situation 2 of2 too serious, humor is lost in sympathy. And this forms a criterion by which one can judge men's degree of dévelopment. But humor passes into irony, loosing an the kindly quality that is for me/essential feature. William James had wit, often with a shing; his wife could see be amusing had humor and http/intimately/ashhe lit up some story a he was telling. I remember one such occasion when she told how she and her daughter Beggy, a naturally reserved and introspective person, and a dressmaker staying in the house got intoxicated on some mushrooms they had gatherd on the lawn and of the way they acted with unextinguishable laughter while the dressmaker's assistant, who had not partaken, wrung her hands in anguish and begged them to be sober. Prof. Royce, the philosopher, and collaague of William James at Harvard, talked with infinite humor when he was then in the mood and was/most amusing to listen to, as well as interesting, but he rebelled in indignation when it was directed against things he took seriously, for selious- ness was the very essence of his nature. D ictaphone, Thursday evening, December 22, 1938. Those years of intimate companionship abroad with my father and my mother, moving quietly about from place to place of interest or beauty as the spirit prompted, reading much and thinking much, were among the richest of my life and laid the foundation deep for future growth and study. That is the reason why my memory now turns back to them with so much particularity. My father a was what Chaucer would have calle d 'a verra parfait gentleman with constant thought for others, broad human interests, and no thought for self, though full of the capacity for great enjoyment in all things beautiful and good. He lived together constantly as we travelled on, in the humours of the moment, in our appreciation and the thoughtsour travel roused. My mother was of a very different nature, not given as I to argument and reason nor patient of them, but arriving straight at her conclusions by passages of intuition all alone. This wa.8 not due so much to the fact that she wa.8 a woman as to inheritance, in which the artistic strain was strong and the warm interest in human life. In this she was remarkable; people came to her always for sympathy and help in their times of trouble for she was strong to lean upon. 2. But we all three had great reserves, even from each other, and lived our own lives out, not readily opening ourselves out to others. The period I was born into was one of extra- ordinary development in scientific thought, as that of the generation which had gone before me was in its breaking away from old religious views and dogmas. This last had led my grandfather to Unitary/mm my grandfather on my mother's side, to his father's great concern. But behind the Unitari of that time lay the attitude of an earlier period AXTA which accepted all on face and did not question. The lack of warmth and colour had led my mother at the time when I was born to join the Episcopal Church, but this with her was a matter of feeling, not logical conviction. All that was spiritual, leaving dogma apart, aroused her deepest interest; for the spiritual wa.8 to her breath of life, and had been always from garlhood on. My father needed, truly, none to tell him what was xxp right or wrong in spiritual matters; he did the right intuitively, needing no instruction. And I think he made no attempt to solve the insoluble in regard to God's presence in the world 4/1012 of.94 New section, Cyl 2-- 1. On our return from our winter on the Nile with our spring in Palestine and Syria, we opened the house at Bar Harbor again, at midsummer, as we had closed it at nearly that same time, though earlier, the season before to go guests abroad, and entertained our friends as usual, at Oldfarm till fall. Then we went to Boston where soon after my mother developed what proved to be acute glaucoma in one eye in an agonizing form More than ever before I realized the utter helplessness of man, much as he has learned and learned to overcome in the presence of such suffering. An operation became immediately necessary and was successfully pr formed but it cost her the sight, commission absolute and entire, of one at eye. The other eye was unaffected and backmax retained its former vision. Somewhat later than she, I developed the same disease,glaucoma, but in non-acute form which caused no suffering but great- which, after attempts to arrest it with some drug, made operation necessary to save my sight at all, glaucoma being present both eyes. xxtxgxxxx The operation was successful, so far as the glaucoma was concerned, but it led to that which if my oculist, two-- consulting and operating did not realize though it would have been necessary mjust the same had they done so, that it would immediately result in 3282 after Clinder No 2 page 2 obscuring the vision of a prtion of the eye But, affacted in glaucoma operation in cataracts which have made all vision obscure to me and stopped at once all reading and clear vision of any kind, near or distant. But before this happened Iw as able. to use my eyes 1871 with a freedom from muscular adjustment difficulties I had not had before since early college days on certain Eye pre- - Stop reading I had long tished to do, recalling the greek read I had given up during my second year at college, because of these the development of thi 8 muscular trouble, my study of the old Italian, of Dante, whom untouched till then, I read through, with many notes and comments on it, but without other aid, with greatest interest and full appreciation. [G.B DORR] Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. James Russell Lowell miscellaneous correspondence: Page 1 of 1 Harvard University/slibrary. OASIS. Container List Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Letters to Charles Hazen Dorr ; Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Charles Hazen Dorr , [Cambridge] 28 Nov 1868. 1s.(1p.) Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Charles Hazen Dorr , [Cambridge] 11 Mar 1869. 2s.(6p.); env., Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Charles Hazen Dorr , [Cambridge] 13 Jul 1869. 1s.(4p.) Acquisition Information: state of George B. Dorr , 20 Mar 1945. Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Charles Hazen Dorr , [Cambridge] 12 Aug 1869. 1s.(3p.) Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Charles Hazen Dorr , Paris, 13 May 1873. 1s. (1p.) Acquisition Information: Estate of George B Dorr, 26 Mar 1945. Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Letters to Mary Gray (Ward) Dorr ; Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Mary Gray (Ward) Dorr ; [Cambridge, n.d.] s.(2p.) Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Mary Gray (Ward) Dorr , [Cambridge, n.d.] s.(1p.) Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Mary Gray (Ward) Dorr , [Cambridge] 2 Apr [n.y.] 1s.(1p.) Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Mary Gray (Ward) Dorr , [Cambridge] 30 May 1866. 1s.(4p.) Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. A.L.s. to Mary Gray (Ward) Dorr , [Cambridge] 18 Jan 1872. 1s.(1p.) Acquisition Information: *44M-331F (6-10). Estate of George B Dorr , 26 Mar 1945. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/xslTransform?xslFileName=summary.xsl&inoid=... 9/26/2011 Mary Gray Ward Dorr (1820-1901) The memoirs of George B. Dorr contain few remarks about the character of his parents. It is clear, however, that throughout his life both were deeply loved and willingly incorporated into his character. Each had "a delightful gift of narrative. What they told of lived my mother had a wonderful gift of description and drew a wide circle of younger folks about her always." Unlike George and her husband, Mary was impatient of reason and argument, reliant on intuition alone for "her artistic strain was strong." Death weighed heavily on her, having claimed her fiance, father, and four of her seven siblings before her 40th birthday. Following George's Harvard graduation, Dorr and his parents had traveled for four years (1874-1878) throughout Europe; their compatibility also evidenced by the fact that they slept under the same roof for forty years. Back in Manhattan, in 1876 typhus claimed the life of her eldest, William. In London, Lady Rosalind Howard-a widely traveled political activist-invited bereaved Mary and George into her Palace Green residence and mothered both for weeks. Much later, Mary tried to persuade her dear friend Rosalind to visit their new Oldfarm residence: "Scenery as you will scarcely find surpassed the world around. Delightful people, charming and representative. We have sailing, yachting, mountain climbing, rocks and shore and quite enough roughness and primitiveness of a new settlement to give your twelve boys and girls all the outings they can devise." Friends and acquaintances described Mary as intense, "a heart- to-hearter." Her reputation as a matchmaking hostess in both Boston and Bar Harbor was reinforced by her domineering spirit and much discussed minor indiscretions. The Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association obituary lauded this founding member for her "bountiful" hospitality and her "uncommon skill in helping the hurt of life's battle with a sympathy which was as true as it was tender." Dorr's private feelings about Mary are mirrored in his response to her death. Immediately afterward, this distraught sole surviving member of the Dorr family turned repeatedly to her lifelong friend, the renowned poet and social activist Julia Ward Howe. Her advice: "George, I love to go over the past with you, but you must not dwell on it too much. The future is before you; you must think of it." For the next four decades he boldly embraced her imperative by championing from his parent's home the creation of Acadia National Park. Ronald H. Epp May 6, 2020 Note: Submitted to Friends of Acadia after request received 5 May 2020 for stories about mothers who loved Acadia. THE SPIRIT OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY An Essap IN THE FORM OF LECTURES BY JOSIAH ROYCE, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY TOYT BIEN or RIEN INFORD LIBRARY BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY the niberside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY JOSIAH ROYCE COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY KATHARINE HEAD ROYCE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THIRTIETH IMPRESSION, FEBRUARY, 1024 340600 VRANGU UNORMATE Ch >creas CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. TO MY FRIEND Mary Grap Wark Darr I GRATEFULLY DEDICATE THIS BOOK AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND VENERATION IN RECOGNITION OF THE WISE COUNSEL THAT SUGGESTED ITS PREPARATION AND OF THE THOUGHTFUL ADVICE THAT ACCOMPANIED AND AIDED ITS GROWTH note: The Social Peyster, 1894, augest. Vol. 8, #8 Issued quarterly N.Y. Social Register Association. Dorr, llis. Chas H (Ward) Old Form Doe, Mr. George B. Bar Harbor, ME-B Ward, the it Mrs. Thomas user (Saphie Howard) Seabught, Ward, Miss Elezabeth Howard n.j. Ward, ll. George Cabot mr. James mores Howard these me "country and foreign addresses of promessent fouchers of NY, Phill, Chicago, Boston, & Baltimore. x Nates' M 6w to JWH Dalay Ward letters to L.W. Howe: /. Oct. 3, 1839 Refees to unlated desclosure g Julia several tags - which would jeopardzi the MGW - -TWH relationship why ? Because may their Julin's decision s irrevocable. Julki must thank of how much you will require from me to whom you whole life and yourself are given to he worth it? the mush ah whether marriage would be a "turble calamity or the greatest her "whole mind" of as wellos heart Challenge blessing." 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Thank Julia for letter, the shortest en a long time, Ramblery many repressions of an notically absent ! the and 10 Lan acquaintraces but sot relativis which to heard Brokms mGw to gwit. -4 Extent Final Letter - 2/26/42 the has read Julin forms with guest attentions dutically, ad D hope impartially They contri huch poetic beauty but mg appul to than few anth CEL relyins affitiations. Julio prens express but a very part al new of the truth "at langton the says John patrays God as the lord of fee it whose world is expressed of "utting outcast & condemned." " This to not Julie's relyion state) love if Julie in he excited State this to make it Soat of her reason Ha later walks c Tom. more chatty news. checkmark_ntt 7/31/05 written in 1924 MARY WARD DORR (Mrs. Charles H. Dorr) It is very probable that someone else of my generation may attempt a sketch of this remarkable woman, but it would be from a different angle, and perhaps I know some things that other people don't, so here's for the attempt. Mary Ward was the daughter of Mr. Thomas Ward of Boston, middle name, if any, unknown to me. He was not of our Wards, but from a different branch, to the best of my knowledge and belief, of the original stock. He was a merchant of substance and repute. He had three children that'I know of, very likely more: Samuel G. Ward, John, and Mary. Samuel, I believe, was the eldest, a man of brilliant parts, a lifelong friend of my mother and of her brothers and sisters; friend and correspondent of Emerson; a very remarkable man who somehow accomplished less, to the outward eye, than was to have been expected. This may have been partly owing to a gibing and sarcastic humor. He married the beautiful Anna Barker of Rhode Island, daughter of a Quaker family, who became an ardent Roman Catholic, and a great saint, not canonically, of that Church, also a great invalid during the greater part of her long life. This may have had something to do with Mr. S. G. their Ward's bitterness. He never became a Catholic, though all children did. John was desperately in love with my Aunt Louisa. She was engaged to him and would doubtless have married him, had she not met Thomas Crawford, who whisked her off her feet and married her off. The Ward marriage would doubtless have been more prudent in many ways, but we should have had no Marion Crawford. -2- A11 this, however, is by the way. I know, after all, very little about these people. It is of Mary, the only daughter and sister, that I want to speak. I am not clear just when or how she and my mother first met. They became intimate, ardent friends, and Mary became engaged to my Uncle Henry, my mother's nearest and best loved brother. Mary Ward must have been extremely attractive in her youth. Her features were very irregular; nose and mouth can never have been anything but very bad, her voice was like the quacking of a duck; but she had extraordinarily brilliant, expressive eyes, a perfect figure, and a charm, attraction, power that were not in the least dependent upon ordinary good looks. "In thy dark eyes a power like light doth lie," says Shelley of Constantia. I fancy that Mary Ward's eyes may have had this power. The engagement, so far as I know, was an extremely happy one. Henry was young, ardent, beautiful. I can see his miniature now, fair-haired, dark blue eyes, rosy or boyish complexion, the very spirit of joy and life. He died at twenty-one, in my mother's arms, of typhoid, or it may have been scarlet, fever. A11 through her long life my mother never failed to mention in her diary the day and circumstances of his death. It was a perfectly crushing sorrow to both young girls. They were much together after Henry's death. It may have been at this time that Mary gave my mother the prayerbook that I so greatly treasure. In it is written, "Jules from her sister Mary". I have an impression that Mary was from the first very masterful and liked to manage the sisters-in-law elect, as she always liked to manage everybody. My wicked Skipper said once, "The best thing your Uncle Henry ever did was to die." This is perhaps too wicked to record, but still I put it down. He suffered much provocation from the lady. -3- It was some years after this, perhaps seven or eight, that Mary Ward married Charles H. Dorr of Boston, one of the gentlest, sweetest, most amiable of men. I saw him once enact the part of Joe Gargery in "Great Expectations" in one of my mother's brilliant charades. The word was "rampage" and I remember well how he said, "On the rampage, Pip, and off the rampage, Pip, sich is life." Such was life, thenceforth, for Charles Dorr, and he was as like Joe Gargery as an intelligent and educated person could possibly be. My personal knowledge of Mrs. Dorr dates from the time when I was a very youug girl. She lived out of town in those days, in Canton or elsewhere, and was still on terms of most affectionate intimacy with both of my parents, though they did not very often meet. When we Florida lived at South Boston, she would have Flossy out for long visits. In Have Hall fact, I rather think that while attending Miss Ireland's school in Jamaica Plain, Flossy practically lived with Mrs. Dorr months at a time. I don't think she ever did Flossy any harm. Later she took up Maud in her early youth of beauty with ardor, and did her, I must think, harm which might have been permanent, had Maud's nature been less strong and wholesome and noble than it is. Certainly Mrs. Dorr did her best, with the kindest intentions in the world, to make an utter worldling of the child. She had become a worldling herself, and yet by no means an ordinary one. She had wealth, I don't know whether her own or her husband's, and position. She came to have a very remarkable position, even although Aunt Henrietta Sullivan did say to me, "My dear, there are some houses in Boston where she would not have been received." She was of an unbounded social ambition; yet ambition is hardly the -4- word, because she felt that she occupied the highest position in Boston or wherever she came or went. Arrogance is the word. She was the most arrogant person I have ever known. Brilliant, kindly, hospitable, all these in high degree. People loved her and detested her, and everybody wanted to go to her house, and one was sure of meeting there always the best and most delightful and most brilliant people, native and foreign. The spiritual life was always to her own thinking, much in the ascendant. She would say to her husband after some gay entertainment, "Dust and ashes, Charlie, dust and ashes! It is only the constant presence of the Lord that enables me to go through it.' This may have been one of the dinners when Charlie had to dine alone upstairs for fear of making thirteen at table. Two sons were born to her, William and George. Of these she was wont to say, "Willie first, Georgie second, Charlie, my husband, third, and the dear Lord in the background." This was, I fancy, a pretty accurate statement. Willie grew up into something of a fop, a harmless, well-intentioned youth. They called him "Beau Dorr". He was of my set and a pleasant enough partner in dancing, et cetera. On surveying a gathering of lovely youug girls, his mother exclaimed, II A garden of roses for my Willie to choose among!" Poor Willie died before he had chosen anybody, or at least before anybody had chosen him. George is still living (1924) and is well known in Bar Harbor, where he has done much for the horticulture and so on of the place. A singular man, but I am not writing about him. I suppose there are more stories about Mrs. Dorr than about anybody of her generation in Boston. People delighted in sending round -5- the latest anecdote. She had a way at her dinner or other parties of changing the guests about which they did not like at all. She would say after a while, "Julia Howe, you have sat long enough by Mrs. Bell. you go and talk to so and so! So and So, come and talk to Mrs. Bell!" Then the guests would get up and change places. They generally did, at least. Occasionally one rebelled. I think it was James Russell Lowell who, on being ordered about in some such way, replied, "Yes, Mrs. Dorr, I will go and talk to Mrs. So and So, and I will never come to your house again.' He probably did, though. It was a very pleasant house to go to. Or they would tell how dear Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes came to visit her at Bar Harbor, and how at breakfast, spying a pitcher of cream close beside him, he was about to pour some on his porridge, when "You can't have that, doctor, you can't have that cream," said Mrs. Dorr. "That is Fido's," Fido being the little dog. "I poured it all on, = said the doctor in telling the anecdote, "and went on with my breakfast." The sympathy between her and my mother did not long, I think, outlast their marriage. It could not be. They remained familiar friends through life. Mrs. Dorr said to me once, "Your mother and I / used to be like hand and glove, but I have grown. " There was nothing to say to this, and I don't remember that I said anything. I remember at an evening party at 241 Beacon there was a new photograph of my mother. Mrs. Dorr saw it and said, "Julia Howe, I want one of those photographs." "Very well," said my mother, "you shall certainly have one." Other friends saw the photograph, praised it, and asked for copies, my mother cheerfully consenting. Presently, "Julia Howe," said -6- Mrs. Dorr, "I don't want that photograph. "Very well, Mary," said my mother. Mrs. Bell said once of Mrs. Dorr, "She spanks us handsome all round, but still we're fond of her." She was mostly very kind to me. When I was in my early girlhood, she used to have me to stay at Canton quite often. I enjoyed going there, had delightful times, was fond of her, as one is fond of a handsome cat that may scratch at any moment. She wanted Phillips Brooks to fall in love with me and had us to stay together there once or twice. He didn't, dear man but it was very delightful to be there with him. I was at the time engaged to the Skipper. I made a very great the Drr mistake in not writing beforehand to tell her of my engagement. It was very stupid, very ignorant of me not to do so, but I didn't know any better, and my blessed mother didn't tell me, for some reason. Perhaps it wasn't done so much then as it is now. Anyway Mrs. Dorr took it in great dudgeon and I think she never forgave me. I never saw much of her after that, but she took mightily to my Skipper and employed him to build her new house at Bar Harbor. This was in the year 1879. The house is still considered one of the most beautiful on the island. I must always feel that your father had a great future in architecture before him, but we need not go into that now. At all events he built the house, and very beautiful it is. Concerning the building he and he alone could write the story, but as it is not very likely he will, I will tell a few things. He learned to know Mrs. Dorr as perhaps few people have,and to manage her as few people have. Most people were afraid of her. He was not. He was always ready for her, always calm and cheerful to her, perfectly courteous, paying just as -7- much attention as he thought proper and no more. Jordan, the builder, could tell many a tale. When the house was nearly finished and the paper hangers and so on came down, Skipper thought itadvisable to give them a gentle hint. So he said after the first day, "You will find that Mrs. Dorr sometimes changes her decisions." "Oh, yes," said the man, "lies like the devil. Found that out the first hour." It was Jordan, the builder, who was the first and, so far as I know, the only witness of the worm's turning, the worm being the long suffering and patient Charles Dorr. Mrs. Dorr had given directions about setting out certain plants, had changed them a dozen times, then gone off and left the directions with her husband. She came back ,and having meanwhile changed her mind or forgotten the directions, I know not which, attacked Charles fiercely, Jordan being within hearing behind a clump of shrubbery. Finally, after rating him soundly, she said, "I thought you had some sense!" "I had,' replied Charles Dorr, "before I married you." With all this she was intensely religious, attending Trinity Church, worshipping Phillips Brooks, and - never forget this - full of good deeds, helping lame ducks constantly. Ungracious kindliness it was. Some people could not accept it, finding the manner of it too detestable, but it was kindness none the less. When her husband died, she was inconsolable for a long time. My mother went to the funeral, which was in the little reception room. Going home, she told Rosalind how in the tiny room there were only half a dozen people, mother Perkins herself, Mrs. Charles Parks, Fannry Bruen a lifelong intimate friend of Mrs. Dorr and of my Aunts Annie and Louisa, George Dorr, the minister, -8- and perhaps one other. "My dear," said mother, "I knew she would do it, and she did. She came into the room and- gave us one glance and changed us all round. 'Fannie, you sit there; Julia, you sit so; George, you sit there. She had to do it." I do not know whether she had begun to develop before his death any of the psychic tendencies which formed so important a part of her later life. She became an ardent spiritualist and lived much with her husband's spirit. She came to have a great influence over a great many young people, an influence which they felt to be highly spiritual and beneficial. I am speaking of her later life. I seldom or never saw her in these years, but people certainly did think that she had some very remarkable powers. I think she always loved mother in a way, she always was profoundly jealous of her, but unconsciously so. She thought she felt herself entirely superior to Julia Howe, intellectually, morally, spiritually, but I cannot help it; she was jealous all the same. Well, so she died, and I don't know what will remain, or what the final influence of that ardent spirit may be. She wholly meant, wholly desired, to do good, a great deal of the highest good to the best kind of people. She was wholly unconscious of any mean or base or unworthy feeling. That is a great deal to say, and yet she was a very worldly and extremely arrogant and domineering woman; but as she observes, the dear Lord was in the background and knows all about it. [Laura E.RICHARDS Danny D. Smith P. O. Box 625 Gardiner, Maine 04345 207-582-0632 26 July 2005 Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Shapiro Library Southern New Hampshire University 2500 North River Road Manchester, NH 03106-1045 Dear Ron, After a long interval, it was most interesting to read the section on Mary Ward Dorr from "Family Sideshows" in the Yellow House Papers. Before I comment on that, I realize that I must withdraw the statement that Charles Door was an attorney. I had confused him with another individual who was one of a multi- generational family of Hale and Dorr, the Boston law firm that I believe continues today and has a long history extending well back into the nineteenth century. I had first become familiar with the name when I inventoried papers of a distant cousin of mine. The collection is the George and Clarence Smith Papers now at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. George and Clarence Smith were both Boston attorneys (the second was a judge). They had a multi-generational association with members of both the Dorr and Hale families, and many incoming letters in the collection were written from Bar Harbor. Hence, I was over hasty reaction to collapse the Dorr pedigree, an object of research that I must address. Therefore, in another edition of my inventory, I will withdraw "great Boston Lawyer," etc. One at least if not more folders containing the "Family Sideshows" Laura Richards inscribed "for family consumption only" or words to that effect. It is obvious that Laura Richards did not like Mary Dorr, and if we accept Richards' characterization to be a valid one, it would not stretch the imagination to agree with your conclusion that Charles Hazen Dorr accomplished a "final revenge" on his wife. There are also comments that Laura Richards and Henry Richards sketched in 1937 in the Edwin Arlington Robinson section of the Yellow House Papers about their general view of aristocratic circles in Boston and in Maine. I almost think that there was some reference to Mary Dorr. I must re-read that document. 2 There is also some reference in Louise Hall Tharp, Three Saints and a Sinner (Boston, 1956) about the engagement of Henry Ward to Mary Ward. Therein her brother is referred to as "the Good Sam Ward," in contrast to the brother of the same name of Julia Ward Howe. Samuel Ward IV, brother of Julia Ward Howe, figures as the "sinner" in the title. In regard to the extended Ward genealogy, there was absolutely no connection between the two Ward families. They merely shared the same surname. A thorough tracing of the Rhode Island Ward family of which Julia Ward Howe as a member is to be found in the scholarly work, Correspondence of Governor Samuel Ward ed. Bernhard Krollenberg and Genealogy of the Ward Family, compiled by Clifford P. Monahon (Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1952). Therefore Laura Richards' comment about "a different branch, to the best of my knowledge and belief, of the original stock" is a typical Victorian phrase uttered by those who had no in-depth genealogical knowledge. The style of "Family Sideshows" is significantly different from anything that Laura Richards would have published. Her autobiography, Stepping Westward, is a marked contrast in which both the highs and lows are omitted. One of the highlights of her life, "Mammy's Great Frisk" is omitted entirely from the autobiography. This is an account of a private luncheon, I think in 1906, with Theodore Roosevelt at the White House. I asked her granddaughter who had intimate knowledge of family affairs why it was omitted. It omitted because its inclusion would have been considered bragging. Any mention of depression, family strife, and monetary problems were scrubbed from published writings. The first scholar to have addressed the public versus private presentations of self is Valarie Ziegler, Diva Julia: The Public Life and Private Agnony of Julia Ward Howe (Trinity Press, 2003). Dr. Ziegler, chairman of the Religious Studies Department at Depauw University, made extensive use of the Yellow House Papers and extended the discussion of the family circle down to the children of Julia Ward Howe and the extreme family factionalism when Laura Richards wrote the biography of Julia Ward Howe. I think that Valarie Ziegler has produced a very good analysis of the matter. I mention this because it will put "Family Sideshows" in context, although I cannot remember (doubt it) that she referenced the Sideshows. In any event, Valarie Ziegler's work is the first book to make extensive use of the Yellow House Papers. Now to some textual analysis of the typescript of Mary Ward Dorr by Laura Richards. I will isolate some phrases that would never have been presented to the public, in my opinion. "this may have been partly owing to a gibing and sarcastic humor." "a great saint, not canonically, of that Church." "Her features were very irregular; her nose and mouth can never have been anything but very bad, her voice was like the quacking of duck; but she had extraordinarily brilliant, expressive eyes, a perfect figure, and a charm, attraction, power that were not in 3 the least dependent upon ordinary good looks." [I suppose that phrases like that caused me to say that the sketches were caricature. Some might say character assignation.] "My wicked Skipper " "I have an impression that Mary was from the first very masterful and liked to manage the sisters-in-law elect." "One of the gentlest, sweetest, most amiable of men." [Only in context does this seem dragged in to present evidence of Mary's being a bad person.] "I don't think she ever did Flossy any harm." [Flossy was sister of Laura E. Richards, i.e. Florence Howe who married John Elliott, the artist.] The quotation from Aunt Henrietta Sullivan needs explanation. She was Henrietta Gardiner who married Richard Sullivan. Henrietta Gardiner was one of the younger daughters of Robert Hallowell Gardiner I, hence a sister of the mother of Henry Richards. Richard Sullivan was a leading Bostonian who supposedly assembled the largest private library in America at the time. He was grandson of Gov. James Sullivan of Massachusetts and first cousin of George Sullivan Bowdoin. Bowdoin with his business partner J. P. Morgan was the principal contributor to the erection of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Devine in New York City. This Gardiner-Sullivan circle was a the highest level of Boston society that included the Cabots, Lowells, Peabodies, etc. etc. I think it fair to say that Cabots and Lowells would not have received Mary Ward Dorr. A few other telling phrases. "People loved her and detested her." "I suppose there are more stories about Mrs. Dorr than about anybody of her generation in Boston." "I poured it all on and went on with my breakfast." In sum, Mary Ward Dorr was a very unpleasant person, and Laura Richards did not spare any feelings that the she harbored towards her. In like manner, Laura Richards "poured it all" on and went her own way. These telling incidents are caricature. There is no depth of analysis. These comments are merely a summation of the ill will most of the members of Boston's elite social circles must have recounted amongst themselves. In that regard, Laura Richards is a fascinating reporter. These are completely unguarded comments, and useful information for the historian, much more so than the carefully manicured passages in Stepping Westward. It is somewhat like the current psychobabble, "No more family secrets. Family secrets kill." I hope that these comments help. Please keep me informed of your work, and I certainly want to have a copy of your publication when completed. All best wishes, Many ERA'S END CAMBRIDGE, 1865 I. In a Senate speech on February 23, 1865, Sumner had opposed a bill providing for a bust in the Capitol of the late Chief Justice Taney (2211.2), author of the Dred time for meditation. Mr. Bigelow says there is not room on the title-page Scott decision. The bill ultimately expired with the session. See Sumner Works, IX, for the Greek and English both. ¹ 270-310. Is not the first sentence of your Preface sufficient acknowledgment to 2. The rumors proved untrue. Mr. [John] Lowell? Or might you not dedicate the volume to him? 3. Edward Lyulph Stanley (1839-1925), a young Oxford graduate and subsequently fourth Baron Stanley of Alderley, had called on Longfellow on September IO, 1864, What a pity it is you cannot be here to decide all these points. with a letter of introduction from Minister Charles Francis Adams (MS Journal). His In great haste address in Manchester supporting the Freedmen's Aid Society was reported in the H.W.L Boston Transcript, XXXVII, No. 10,690 (February 24, 1865). MANUSCRIPT: Longfellow Trust Collection. I. Greene responded on March 20: "I send the printer the proof [of the title page of 2235. To Mary Gray Ward Dorr the Historical View of the American Revolution] and also one of the proper page, changing the par nobile." He also settled for an English translation from Thucydides, Cambridge March 15 1865 Bk. I, Sect. 22, on the usefulness of history in interpreting the future. Dear Mrs. Dorr, It gives me great pleasure to accept your kind invitation to dinner on Thursday to meet so many pleasant people, some of whom I have not 2237. To George Washington Greene seen for a great while, but whom I am always glad to see. 1 I remain, Dear Mrs. Dorr, Camb. March 17 1865 Yours very truly, My Dear Greene, Henry W. Longfellow After writing you this morning, I went to the Printer's and found your new Title-page. I told him to send you a copy by the noon mail, which MANUSCRIPT: Harvard College Library. ANNOTATION (on fourth sheet): First time Longfellow saw these friends after his wife's death, was at this little dinner./It was he promised to do. Another copy I brought home with me, and had it the first time [he] dined out - or entered any house - out of his immediate family./ with me at lunch, you sitting visibly there on the right, shielding your MGD2 eye with your hand. I. Mary Dorr (757.4) had sent an undated note to Longfellow: "It will give us Being alone with you I said as follows: great pleasure to see you at dinner on Thursday [March 16] at 6 o'clock - to meet Miss "I like this Title-page much better than the other. The motto could Mary Hamilton. The Governor [John Albion Andrew] is coming and Mr Henry James and Mary [Eliot Dwight] Parkman." The guest of honor was presumably Mary Morris not have been better, if Thucydides had made it expressly for your book. Hamilton (d. 1876), vice-regent of the state of New York for the Mount Vernon As- I am glad you put it in English. Had you given it in the original Greek, sociation. it would have had a flavor of scholarship, which is always pleasant, but to 2. Mrs. Dorr was misinformed, unless she interpreted "immediate family" to include the great mass of your readers it would have been like the language of Longfellow's small circle of Cambridge friends, for as recently as March 4 he had dined with Louis Agassiz and others to meet Mary Hamilton (MS Journal). Nimrod in the Inferno, ch'a nullo è noto. The Dedication is excellent, and must not be touched. Consider my suggestion of this morning as withdrawn.2 2236. To George Washington Greene With my own hand I wrote upon the Catalogue of Ticknor and Fields, already in the Printer's hands, the words "Historical View &c" Camb. March 17 1865 and in italics Nearly Ready, which if the book precedes the Catalogue, My Dear Greene, can be changed accordingly." Ten days ago I wrote Folsom a note about the Par nobile. As yet no This is what I said at lunch. answer. I suppose he is hunting up some authority for usage this way or H.W.L. that. It seems to me hardly safe to use the phrase seriously, it has become SO associated in all minds with disparagement. MANUSCRIPT: Longfellow Trust Collection. The new title-page is in the printer's hands, and will be sent to you I. Inferno, XXXI, 81: "which to none is known." forthwith. As this part of the book will be printed last, you will have 2. Greene dedicated his book to Charles Butler (1802-1897), lawyer and philan- thropist of New York. 476 477 THE LETTERS OF Henry Wadsworth Longfellow EDITED BY Andrew Hilen VOLUME IV 1857-1865 The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972 Jean Strouse. Alice James A Biography. N.Y.: Penguin, 1980. 94 A FEMININE AGE Bostonians 95 A different kind of love from that between friends now also made its ap. pearance on the horizon of Alice's life. She turned eighteen in 1866, and Barlow's engagement to Nelly Shaw, sister of Robert Gould Shaw and her friends had begun to pair off. She, too, was expected to do "the usual Josephine Shaw Lowell: "It gives one a shiver, does it not? Do you know thing" (as Dr. Sloper says of his daughter, Catherine, in Henry's novel General Barlow? I don't, but I have a sort of prejudice against him, it Washington Square) 1 to marry. does not seem to be nice for a sweet young girl like Nelly to marry a wid- lower does it?" In March of 1865, Emerson's second daughter, Edith, had announced her engagement to William Hathaway Forbes, the oldest son of John A photograph from this period shows Alice (see picture following Murray Forbes (who had made a fortune earlier in the century in the page 80) as a serious, plain-featured young woman with a clear, intent China trade and railroads). Henry James, Sr., wrote Emerson a letter of gaze. She was not beautiful, and her face shows none of the then-fashion- hearty congratulation: "Marriage is a sacrament which women interpret able delicacy that had begun to mar her health. Her hair, pulled 2/4/66 in so much more celestial a sense than men,* that it is somewhat to a straight back to coil around her head in a braid, reveals a high, broad, father to find his daughter coveted by a man who doesn't deserve to be Jamesian brow. She looks older than her years, bearing a strong resem- blance to her mother and Henry Jr. AJte shot outright for his presumption. How great your felicity then in being able to bestow your rose-bud upon so sincere and manly a bosom as Of her own social life, she reported to Fanny have been to one or and Willy Forbes! Happy father, first in the possession of such children, and two parties since you left but nothing very exciting The Wards have now above all in the clear foresight of his child's happiness! Ah well! per- been in town for the last fortnight, staying at Mrs. Dorr's She had one of haps my poor little bird will find as tender a nest." the Ladies Social Clubs, to which she asked me I suppose on Bessy's ac- His poor little bird wrote her friend Fanny about the celestial sacra- count. Mr. Dorr and Mrs. Hunt acted a charade that was rather funny, WARDS ment of marriage: "I suppose you have heard of Jenny Watson's engage- but as Mr. Dwight' had asked me to go the opera to hear Fidelio with ment to Ned Perkins. Is it not funny, he is more than five years younger; him, & as I had to go to Mrs. Dorr's instead, the charade perhaps did not can you possibly imagine marrying a boy [the word man was crossed seem as funny to me as it might otherwise have done." MEWD out] so much younger than yourself? It would not be so strange if Ned Since Mr. Dwight was fifty-three, Alice was probably annoyed at miss- Perkins were not so very immature, but he always seemed to me a perfect ing the pleasure of his distinguished company and the opportunity to infant." hear Fidelio - not at missing a romantic encounter. Besides, her letters to If marrying younger men seemed questionable, older ones were no Fanny show her devoting greater interest to women during this period better. A few months later, Alice wrote to Fanny about General Francis than to men. She had recently met Clover Hooper (the future Mrs. Henry Adams, whose Christian name was Marian) and her sister, Ellen, and wrote to Fanny in June: even in marriage maintained the primacy of their female friendships. A visiting friend or sister would sometimes displace a husband from the conjugal bed so that the two women could be together all night, sharing stored-up confidences and affection. Now my dear I am going to tell you something pretty fine. Miss Ellen Hooper Alice's closeness with Henry crossed the nineteenth century's sexual frontier in many is going to ask Mary and me to spend next Sunday with her at Beverly. Did ways, but it consisted primarily of intellectual and abstract sympathies, not of the you ever hear anything quite so splendid as that? traded secrets and shared domestic activities that made up the fabric of intimate friendships between girls. Female friendships provided women with networks and ties You see, Miss, that although we poor folks don't go to Europe and see pic- that revolved around their own spheres of interest 1 books, marriage, health, work, tures and climb mountains and sich like, we do have a little amusement as we travel. When Fanny traveled, Alice took up with her cousin as a means of maintaining go along. If you crow too much when you get back I shall begin to talk of my the connection. When Alice went away, Fanny would come to the James house with her sewing to sit with Mrs. James, talking and working - and then both Fanny and Mrs. James would write to Alice about their time together. John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893), a former Brook Farmer and contributor to It is difficult to imagine anyone interpreting marriage in a more celestial sense The Harbinger and The Dial, and Boston's foremost music critic. He ran the Harvard than Henry James, Sr., did. Music Association, published the Journal of Music, and established the first professor- ship of music at Harvard. His wife had died in 1860. Notes: (1) Wm. James at dinner at lrs. Dorrs, horrible overgrown affair." 1/19/1897. FRM Francis Rollins bloore Corr.win.Janes Ed. Skrupskelis. 2000. (2) 7/11/6897 Wm. Jamest letter Alice in promis same volume to lit from Mary Darr V.8, p.220 know@visit to oldform. Rp 284-285. Maud House Elliott. P9-10F2 208 UNCLE SAM WARD AND HIS CIRCLE Macmillery UNCLE SAM WARD AND HIS CIRCLE 209 1938. Mr. Kirk was a young Presbyterian clergyman to whom Julia had been ornamented with flowers the night my young wife slept was engaged for a short time. He was very unpopular with her there for the first time, ornamented with flowers when my father brothers. For those who remember her in later life these state- slept there for the last time, and ornamented with flowers this ments about her health seem incredible, for she had a magnificent sad night of October 2nd. constitution and during all of her ninety-one years was in perfect We are all desolate and heartbroken. The gold and silver health. chords of our lyre are broken. A new and devastating grief now darkened Sam's life in the In other respects I have no changes to report. I have not death of his brother Henry. Grandfather's and fäther's deaths yet decided whether I shall continue the lectures upon the Doc- were in the natural order. But a younger brother-that brought trine of Chances. At present I am much with my sisters who need mortality close. Had he been a little hard on Henry? A letter to constant attention. I generally visit them three times a day and his father about Henry at school, and a later one from Europe, pass either the afternoon or the evening in their society. Mrs. give that impression. Remorse, perhaps, was mixed with grief? Ward came to town on Saturday, in time to take leave of my dear That makes the bitterest sorrow of all. brother, and we shall not return to Hellgate. Hellgate was then a farm of many acres, located near what is S. W. TO C.F.M. now Eighty-eighth Street and Second Avenue. BOND STREET, Mercredi, 7 October, 1840 My dear friend, Henry's death, following so closely on their father's was a cruel blow to the young Wards. Now, when mourning is no The mourning border of this paper will announce to you the longer the fashion and the doctrine of cheerful oblivion of sad news of our young, beautiful and beloved Henry. Yes, my bereavement prevails so widely, it is hard to realize the impor- dear, God has wished that we should count but five and death has tance then given to death. Today the accent is all on life! taken the most beautiful flower from our triste arbre, already sadly Julia, who at nineteen wished she had died with Henry, de- despoiled. clared when she was ninety: The evening of your departure my poor brother promised so "It is not my business to think about dying, but to think about well for the night that I, because of the rain, stayed at Hellgate, living!" where I had been for eight days. In the morning I hurried to the Henry's fiancée, Mary Ward, wore widow's weeds for several city, found the family at table, demanded gaily how he had spent years and until the end held him in close remembrance, Later she the night. Henry had died at 5 in the morning. married Charles H. Dorr, and became the social arbiter of Bos- o, mon Dieu, give us strength to bear this dreadful blow. ton's fashionable society. An intense, dramatic woman, full of He died of a fever in all the strength and vigor of his twenty- kind impulses and of some that were less kind. In her later two years. The next day we placed him beside my father in a tomb years she said to my sister Laura: "I have been reading that had already opened four times, to receive those dear to me, over your mother's old letters. They were very clever. I burned in the last four years. I stayed with the poor body the last them." night it passed on earth. He lay on the bed on which my poor Henry died in Julia's arms. All through her life she noted in father had breathed his last ten months before. It was our nuptial her Journal the anniversary of his death. "This day my dear bed in our wedding chamber. Sad bed, sad chamber. The bed brother Henry died." pagezoft 214 UNCLE SAM WARD AND HIS CIRCLE UNCLE SAM WARD AND HIS CIRCLE 215 nurse who was said to be gifted with second sight. The woman too great to be reached by any of the common topics of consola- declared that she had heard three coffins fall. This was a portent tion and, therefore, I shall abstain from urging them. of three deaths in the family. The shadow cast by Henry's death upon Sam, the central sun in GEORGE TICKNOR TO S. W. the Ward solar system, was darkened to a total eclipse when his young wife Emily Astor Ward died shortly after the birth of a BOSTON, Feb 20, 1841. son. As if that were not sorrow enough Sam's firstborn son, We are much grieved for you, my dear friend. Sorrow has come Emily's little boy, soon followed his mother; and so the old nurse's upon you, unexpected, overwhelming, and though I can say noth- prophecy was fulfilled and three new coffins were placed in the ing that will sound to you like consolation now, still, even in the great vault at Greenwood where generations of Wards lie, await- extremity of our trouble it is not unwelcome to know that our ing the last trump. friends are sympathetic and suffer with us. The last eighteen In a letter from New Orleans, dated February 22nd, Marion months have brought with them an unusual amount of the trials refers to Sam's loss. The only other letters on the subject, except of affliction for you. Sam's to Longfellow, are from two Boston friends. As the family were inveterate correspondents, it seems probable that all letters Mr. Ticknor writes quite at length upon the needed lesson of concerning Emily, or written by her, were at some time seques- sorrow and then tells Sam to read the four chapters of St. John's trated from the rest of Sam's papers. Gospel beginning with the fourteenth. "I know not," he con- cludes, "where else in divine or human teachings such words can be found." C. C. FELTON TO S. W. Mrs. Ticknor adds some lines to her husband's letter: CAMBRIDGE, Feb. 20, 1841. My dear Ward, Let your thoughts as well as your heart follow your Angel to Day before yesterday I was much gratified to receive your letter heaven and you will feel a thought that is gained only by such announcing the birth of a son. Yesterday I went to Boston and communion. But, I take my pen simply to tell you how much my was going to mention the pleasant news to your friends, but I was heart is touched with grief for you, that I shall think of you con- inexpressibly shocked to hear from Sumner that a letter had just stantly and that I am, come in from his brother with the information of the sudden Affectionately your friend, death of Mrs. Ward. I shall not intrude upon your sorrow fur- ANNA TICKNOR. ther than to say that you have my deepest sympathies in your bereavement. In the three short years of his married life Sam touched the I had seen but little of Mrs. Ward, but her gentle, refined man- heights and depths of human experience. The gay and happy ner, her soft, low voice, that most excellent thing in woman, have bridegroom who led Emily Astor to the altar was a shining sword many times come back to my memory since my return from New of a man, fit and able to conquer the world. The pride and hope York. I saw enough of her to know that she was a woman in of his father, idol of his sisters and brothers, admiration and per- whom the best affections of an honorable and cultivated man haps envy of his friends, chosen lover of a lovely woman, his cup would be garnered up and that the affliction of her loss must be of happiness was full and running over. Then came the deepest of 5 DR. HOLMES, FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR 35 brain will begin to soften. Now you must tell me when the egg begins to look addled. People don't know of themselves." Charles He had been to two large dinners lately, one at G. W. Dickens Wales's, which he said was the finest dinner he had ever seen, the most perfect in all its appointments, decorated with the largest profusion of flowers, in as perfect taste as he had ever seen. "Why, even the chair you sat in was so delicately padded as to give pleasure to that weak spot in the back which we all inherit from the fall of Adam." The other was at Mrs. Charles Dorr's, where there were sixteen at table and the room "for heat was like the black hole at Calcutta," but the company was very brilliant. Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop, Mrs. Parkman, Dr. Hayes, etc. He sat next Mrs. ; says she is a thorough-bred woman of society, the daughter of a politician, the wife, first of a millionaire and now of a man of society. "I like such a woman now and then ; she never makes a mistake." Mrs. was thoroughly canvassed at the table, "picked clean as any duck for the spit and then roasted over a slow fire," as O. W. H. afterward remarked to Mrs. Parkman, who is a very just woman and who weighed her well in the balances. When they arrived at L.'s my basket of flowers stood surrounded by other gifts, and Longfellow himself sat crowned with all the natural loveliness of his rare nature. The day must have been a happy one for him. (), W. H. had three perfect verses of a little poem in his hand which he read, and then Lowell talked, and they had great merriment and delight together. 2 of 5 WITH DICKENS IN AMERICA I49 You might also want to look at the Docket Book for each probate to see what was filed and compare it against what you have already seen. (There may have been a schedule A and B filed that gave some information on the value of the estate) Given that there appears not to be other real or potential direct heirs to place claims on the estate it would not be unusual for there not to be an inventory of the estate or appraisal of its worth. Furthermore, since there were no liens or other actions against either estate for unpaid debts there would be no requirement to list property, personal or real which could be sold at auction to satisfy creditors. Regarding the Commonwealth property. You might want to start with who the current owners are and then go backwards in a search of the Grantee/Grantor indices at the Registry of Deeds office. You might first check Boston City Directories to note whether George B. Dorr gave #18 as his legal residence and then see when he was last listed at that address. Or he may have had a caretaker and not lived there at all. If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Elizabeth Bouvier Head of Archives MA Supreme Judicial Court 3 Pemberton Sq. 16th Fl. Boston, MA 02108-1701 (617) 557.1082 1 Epp, Ronald File CHD From: Bouvier, Elizabeth [elizabeth.bouvier@sjc.state.ma.us Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:22 AM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Re: Charles H. Dorr will Yesterday I looked at the Charles H. Dorr will. He leaves all his personal and real property to his wife Mary. However if she should die before him he leaves his entire estate to his son George B. And if both his wife and son pre-deceased him then his executor Charles P. Bowditch was to establish a trust (and empowered essentially to liqudiate all of his - Charles - assets ). At his death Charles left a personal estate of $19,155.11 (included furniture and silver valued at $8,000. and various accounts). It may be useful to trace the Thomas Wren Ward probate (Administration #42632) and who is heirs were and how much his estate was valued at. Then trace those heirs, including his daughter Mary G. Dorr. Sincerely, Elizabeth Bouvier Head of Archives MA Supreme Judicial Court 1 C.l BRANCHES ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY MAIN OFFICE FALMOUTH TELEPHONE VINEYARD HAVEN UNIVERSITY ORLEANS 1122 SANDS Bearing R-Sandy Sours MARBLE . GRANITE SLATE . BRONZE Memorials 457 MOUNT AUBURN STREET Cambridge, Massachusetts December 14, 1934 Mr. Charles B. Dorr, Bar Harbor, Maine Dear Mr. Dorr: In accordance with the kind request of Mr. John F. Peterson, Superintendent of Mount Auburn Cemetery, we are pleased to advise you in regard to the placing of a memorial stone to mark the interment of Elizabeth Hind. That grave is in the rear of the lot. Three flat marble stones, 1-10 X 1-0, without carving, are aligned with each other in the front portion of the plot. If it is desired to have a stone exactly similar to these, which are all a like, the cost would be $45 including lettering and delivery to the lot. We quote the records on the stones now there for your information: MARY GRAY WARD DORR BORN IN BOSTON WILLIAM WARE DORR ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1820 DIED MAY 15, 1876 DIED IN BOSTON AGED 25 YRS. ON OCTOBER 21, 1901 CHARLES HAZEN DORR BORN IN BOSTON ON AUGUST 27, 1821 DIED IN BOSTON ON JANUARY 28, 1893 These inscriptions are according to the old style of arrangement. Now only years of birth and death are generally considered more desirable as: ELIZABETH HIND 1806 - 1879 Since this stone will be at the rear of the lot and away from the other stones, it would seem to be quite all right to use another design or type of stone. DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS-INSCRIPTIONS ENGRAVED WITH PARTICULAR CARE MAUSOLEUMS, MONUMENTS AND MEMORIAL STONES ERECTED EVERYWHERE BRANCHES ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY MAIN OFFICE FALMOUTH TELEPHONE VINEYARD HAVEN UNIVERSITY ORLEANS 1122 SANDS Samus Sonsy MARBLE . GRANITE . SLATE . BRONZE Menoucial 457 MOUNT AUBURN STREET Cambridqe, Massachusetts Mr. Charles B. Dorr - 2 - December 14, 1934 A flat plain marker of Barre Granite instead of marble, of the same dimensions as the present stones, would cost $45. This granite is grayish-white and would correspond well with the present stones, with the advantage of being less likely to be damaged. Granite is generally considered preferable to marble for markers set flush with grade. This marker is exemplified by the photo #6318, except that the top of the stone would set flush with the ground. However, it might set a few inches above sod as shown, if you prefer to have it that way. With a line enclosing the inscription as in #4926, the cost is $ 50. Another upright design of marker is #5882 which is 1-10 long and 1-0 high. This stone costs $50 with the face plain without carving. Possibly you may wish a small headstone composed of two pieces. These are about 1-6 high. We enclose sketches of such stones. Design #560 in Berkeley Blue (Georgia Granite) is $75, and the same design exclusive of carving is $90 in Westerly Granite. Berkeley Blue is manufactured in the South SO that costs are lower. In appearance it is gray, not unlike Barre. While we recommend Barre more highly, Berkeley Blue is a satisfactory stone. Our suggestion would be to use a granite marker like #4926 to set flush with the ground, or an upright stone with a base as sketched in Barre Granite. I trust this information will assist you and we shall be glad to follow your wishes entirely. With your decision the enclosed required cemetery cards should be signed and returned to us Yours very truly, For GENRAL R. SANDS & SONS CRS/L Encls. DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS-INSCRIPTIONS ENGRAVED WITH PARTICULAR CARE MAUSOLEUMS. MONUMENTS AND MEMORIAL STONES ERECTED EVERYWHERE 9/6/06 May Dorr will 4/20/1897 If GB 12 secreives me, I beg meath to hen "all my estate, "feal upus and I appoint to her all propert over weed I mag have an power. Second, I GBO does not surverve new (4) alle furnetter, books, works y ait clothes, wire & all other acticls of personal 00 dometic are to Grafton Dulang Cashing and Marris Hray (3) residual estate in clud propert tw Cushing t Gray and said W. Whitman their hears + seccesors in trust to appl the income to charitable tuests as they Su fit espharge impatace of using onzon as a help ful city of Boston, aiding when fleeine in the life of the the need shell seen greatest and the opportunity best . add that she doesn't wat income used in ways contrag tigeneal the husman tense., in com not to be uses for "permivent your wanteren of ay particular charity 2 may also does it wish in cme and for purpose is "the allevation Ay evils that ares from uncoholes me condetion of liferfer creme or the result A accident, such as hospitals paylem or organized charitable association However "focute crisis or sudden desaster" and ca be five in response to a She stressesuse for "the best and fullen developed of the young, in "new aiding whatever shall make men's work" wor better in quilet . t more fruit cel, not my to themative but to other." the says that the Boston is forces, she would act ut to retrib it to the city a State but appf to th new Sylland Afters." 16 condition specified may Carrend c Trestee issues Witnessed Grace m. Keehn Henry Partman John C. Gray Vital Records Search Page 1 of 1 Massachusetts Archives William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Home I Search I Index I Feedback I Contact Vital Records Search First Name: mary Last Name: dorr Town: Boston Start Year: 1900 End Year (optional): 1901 Type: Death Births Coming Soon Page Size: 100 records per page Search See Results Below (1 entries available) Last Name First Name Town Years Volume Page Type Dorr Mary G.(Ward) Boston 1901 519 612 Death 1 Archives Home I Feedback Contact http://www.sec.state.ma.us/vitalrecordssearch/VitalRecordsSearch.aspx 12/9/2006 MA. Supreme Judicial Court Archives. 1-of6 194 No. 4118786 Many Co Baleon Charles B(Bate Vol. Page No. 118789 Mary & Dochlan 2001. Oct 2 support 1902. at29 Petition Hill. the late of withly bacherine 16. bochlin Nov. Probate of Will Bond. Modo Letter Invest Real Estately Personal, 4516.14 799 Duc. Petn Record Deding Decrie for shilds Happy of No. 118787 Hellis Pokerson Vol. Page. No. 119790 Natilda L Delons or Delano FOR Page 1901 Petition for ad. ill cleasion Now 14 Deore Nov 14 Bond,1000 Stireties Willis & Pearson's Grade 799 446 A. Wright better 1903, Oct is Pets for deption of Receiver Jan 21-1904 Decrease 838 134 1901. Oct29 Petition for ad by Gandinestreene 13 Order 4fnotice the Jan 1,1904 Fleed la 19:2 Feb. divide of appointment 704 204 Inventory Personal Estate 336.99- 802 San Friderick A Receiver Leath efficare filed 838134 838- 904 Bond5000 Sucity offpatting 838.136 1905 Apr 73 Estate,1597 861192 allowed 863 733 Distribution Jane Descre w t8 Sept 21 Report Decree 503 No. 118788 Mary G Dorr Vol. Page. No. 118791 Francis J.Killey 1901. Oct. 29 Egtition Will for Probable of bucknam Dorr 799 362 1901. Oct. 29 Petition Nov. Deer Probate 1 will Bond Sanstice, Charlee 799 362 8 Nov. 14 B 4000 Shetter Nov-15 31 when Affar. notice ditch If appointment better 1902, may22 Pth Purcenfor Artendment of Rand. 802290 196 No. 118792 Julieis Holshanelighy Vol. Page. No. 114795 Delilah Lambert Kol. Page. 1907.Oct.29 Petition surchang of 1901/Lt. 29 Petition ad 903 Oat. 13 Petn for abstitute of Receiver-Jo 21. Decree 838 15 god Frederick conferent Pitisha phild Receiver Leetten start ifternal 808. 131 Ret Brandmalso. 838 133 ana mineur-mine. hundred and one. J Sarah A Lomband bounclists Brealin (Deal) One this twenty eight day of September A.D. 190L signed vaild and declared by the said bon Sarah Ann Loombard of Boston and State meline Breelin as and for his last will and Massachisette signed the testament in the presence of us who in his in our presence, declaring it to be her last willy presence, at his request and in the presence and as witnesses thereof Ave three do now, at his request, in her presence. d in the free have hereunto subscribed our names as if each other all being present together ince of each other, hereto uniceribe our names Richard of Andrews So Henris I Lanion Stable m.Webster Francisco IB 8 true record Attest an George Register A record Attest Eigh George Register I Loizzie b b sampbell of Boston Massachusette Offord Terrace make this will I give five hundred dollars to nice Helen bampbell Townsendof Manchester N.H. I me, Flbequath all the Summiture, books prictures give one hundred doliare each to more Mrs. works of art. hists, clothes, urnes and all other Maude 1 Thompson boneond Not and to articles of personal or domestic was or ornament my nephews Harold If Everett of Easton ana and all carriages, houses harmesses larming tools and live stock to Grafton Duiami slinton isamhieil now at Tractings debracks. and I give the sum of fire thousand dollars and Morris Gray as joint tenants schall be gind to have them animal " am of the as to me, sister Jain Tiarion isaminice of anid ticles in was way as them think would in Boston Should my state after payment of m in accordance with me within but Fimhose denta a d expressed in incufficient "to no trust whatever whom in and intend to whole of said legariesiamoriniums, to financial give no person any right usal samitable and and right Imminia arrais them then are degainst them. cities its west' which be yu to ive haid hino rata as far as sava estate wam any liqucy or succession duty Third will go. are the rest of mm said state rear 3rd my said son do not survive mix them and thereone in case it incude said limit device and ics wath aii the residue 3 one device and resweath to me said inter utate real and personal including air seen Marion isaminies Economic some I imoperity over which No man have any hower wong crimsham Massachusette to be the in incitor of this will and moonest that he may of testamentary air nontment. to the said isushing was Gray and Drrah W.Whitman in exemb from guing, a unit n. writies on in bond as inch executor - Testimony where. this busin word evercuses in trust to abply the income to such charitable objects as is 3 increasing set my hand and in tue been w it - ourt cm selecting charitable objects inch of three witnessis decrars this to be my disi - the trustees to Lavor such as will last will this third day D 1001 in their sudgement inst to raise the Wiggie Diaminess common ici to the con munity to a higher Em this third day o. Tian 921. Diggie D Dambiein are Insome and to renair the time B octon, ii signed the J. its individual mun and women more instrument in run presence reclaring it to be none was who some and more refened and I her inst will and as witnesses thered we three + decure them is can as is consistent with do MAS at inses rig met. in her Inresenci and in the annustion r inaid income to objectswich the presence or each other hereto subscribe our are charitable in the eye 2 the law so to Names Dincon 3. rijant. Winton Bennee warger Batchsidie we Jain income that it may ive a hurma of true record attest digal George, Register ment nechtiri insinunce in the life of the city coston aiding where the smil Dors 3, Mary Eray Dorr, of Boston, in the is mmmonwealth seem questest and the opportunity best such Proved will Oct 31.1901 last of Mariachusette, Will hirity dr revoking make and ail publish will by this me my movements as tena to make the isity itself 2 better movel and more stimulating home Serarge Bushman Dorr survive me. f devisi and any time hustopan made. First. th my son begulath to him all my estate. real and furnish training enters in who for Commyn dwell offers kind of work way that of the the of all in it, to increase portunities it in the best and I appoint to him all property over which into the life that influencesity I man have am power of testamentary difficult ment Second Dig my said son do not survive and to render the organic life of comi munity sounder. more firmly knit and more inpable of devel furnent instead of decreation shall promot the way to change of a healthy and social life atting capital of the fund shall be expended n Fifth I do not wish that any forton of the Seventh While I wish that the income vitality and an the capacity for growth of locked temporarily in phila thropic enterprises the fund be used especially for work center sare in as far as they may approve themselves ing in and about Boston I do not intend to the general business sense of the community to restrict it wholly to the laity or even to the as sound financial investments suitable State if opportunities for its application of the requirements of a trust fund and I do which my trustees should think it well not wish the income of the fund to be filedy to take advantage should arise any where ed either directly or tacitly by any action of within the New England States. Eight I do not intend, moreover, in what I have said the trustees to the permanent yearly main tenance of any particular charity or charities, to lay down instructions by whose exact but to be kept by them free and within their letter wish my trustees to feel themselves own control to dispose of as time may ohen rigiding bound but rather to outline a toth new opportunities to make it useful or cast new my for the administration of the fund existing Sixth While as 2 have said I wish light upon the relative value of those already conceived I wish them to be guided forever, leave in their change by whose spirit brondly that the income of the fund chail be expend ed only for such objects as are in the eye of legal charities Ninth she irroons or person always however expending the income for the law charitable I do not wish that gen whit may be at anytime the trustees erally the income should ive spent for there trustee thereunder, shall have power.!! To charities specially is alled whose hurhase change investments from time to time, to is the alleriation of wile that arise from will convey and lease on such terms as uncholecome conditions of life from crime J they may see fit any property real or free TV as the result of accident, inch as Hospitals, somal of which the trust fund may at Homes Deyiums or organized isharitable do them or him shall be bound to w to the any time consist; and ME purchase from sociations although aid away be given franchise income freely where come social crisis IV sudden application of the purchase money. 2. To disaster has brought shecial Handship naurte suffering whom and hast of the community But the Fright at their or his discretion to try fram all charges and expenses, including the it is my wish that the trustees in impliying insurance premiums out of income and biold income of the fund for charitable purposes in's charges and commissions and other experience reshall suck to use it, as for as consistent ises of making or changing investments out mont opportunities the for the and fullest develop with such employment, best in increasing the income to the principal such addition to of friencipal (3.) 5. add any portion of the of young in aiding whatever shall exprence of building, real rebuilding attending be part of the principial (4) I charge any make min's work better in quality and more fruitful not only to themselfes but to others refairing any estate which daity the of Boston and the influencie that shape infuring the environment if life in the ov the income of the trust of 1 at their or past of the trust property to furtherful the character of its citizens and in furthering his discretion. a In buy any bonds securities at a premium cause of sound political emontiny miums at their when cipal and generally to determine all questions will but of he dr not currive me the I as to what charged shall be made to trinsipal and what to income at their on his discretion Ub) So appoint as asas. and Morris tray the executors hereof and appoint the said brafton Dislamy bushing ciates to themselves or himself or to apr request that neither my said con mov the said point as successore to themselves sv him bushing mov the said Gray be required to self any persons or person Tenth Any give any surety on his bond as execution and acts done by a majority of the trustees I also request that no person at any time for the time being shall be valid as trustees under this will be required to give any surety on his bond as trustee. Sigteenth if done by all of them. And any true. tees for the time being may emhower his different and desire that the executons of this all trustees ineurder small take as trustees or co- trustee to act for him as the usual commicsions allowed by law or trustee by a power of attorney to con custom Seventeenth frequest that the execu- time in force for it months Eleventh I desire that the trustees how the time tors of this will and the trustees hereunder file me inventories or accounts unless shecial being under this will shall exercise the by directed so to do by some count or official associates and succesors within as short power given to them of appointing their having authority so to direct. In witness where of 3 hereto set my hand and seal this them a time after any vacanay occurs as may be needful for making a wise choice teeth day of April in the year one thousand so that the board trustees shall eight immdred and ninety shrew (Seal remain a perfectual and will perfection Mary Dow. ting board of three; but notive Signed sealed published and declared by if there be at any time but two trustees the said Mary sway Dow, as and for her last or one trustee under this will such two Will in the pressure of us who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each trustees or one trustee shall have all other have hereto set our names as witnesses the powers, rights authority and discrition herein given to the three trustees Twellth The trustees for the time being shall of true rennd Attest Eight Senge Register Grace M.Juln Henry Parkman Johns b Gray not the bound to exprend the annual in come within the year but may let it I mary &. Georgin do herewith make miny last Im the name of Father, Son and Holy Shoot Mary E blings lie and accumulate as income until a will and testament being of sound mind haved Will Oct fit opportunity for its wise expenditure an and in good health after all just debts 3/190 arise. Thirteenth No trustee at anytime here cordina to the directions of this will shall land funeral expenses are paid my give and under the shall be presponsible for of a co. trusty and no trustee at any time of trust securities in the presention the sum of one thousand dollars, and what of one hundred dollars. To Albert & Ginge bequath to my son Evan City George the sum ever remains over and above my real and free ment but only for his personal wilful of hereunder shape be liable for of judg sonal estate, I leave to his bestowal I Fourteenth said son son shall not survising point my son Albert E. Singi the sole expires one week hushall deemed to have died before tor of estate without bonds In witness with sign this 20th day of May 1901. teenth Jappoint my said the executor of this many benes Isist 5.fb lbz HONDRANCE COURT IN AND FOR into COUNTY or SUNFOLK: HONORARI givids and nstate goods and estate statements Survous, as. Subacr Before COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Servers, Probate Count holder Probate ON petition ON petition therewith last will and be the last will of of be proved and allowed, letters may be provided of Me the next of kin they the In is letters be Probate Churt. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT KNOW MEN BY TILL payment the by Green presents. Scale Heaton, the of the law to of for hasses and also that by said by'sald reader upon cath tree upon oath, in any year sald Court, and may said to void, otherwise remain be fall & Vancor R.moise BUFFULK, A.D. Examined COMMONWRALTH OF MASSACIIUSETTY SUPPLIER Bucks PROBATE, COURT. SEPTOLS, YOU and allowed in this to the day October KENAN GEOROK, Register. SM la Between following tree copy PTD Notice. is hereby givpa that the Date of the of Quality the will of Mary JR Notice and taken upon trust by State make Mour Instate, business that taken you diseased, (instate, and bak that bood of Boston AM persons having demanda upon the estate of mild deceased are required to exhibit the called upon to-make to the All - having demonds the estate of - (Address) down Mame, called upon to make payment to - or E and gaugh Best necember. all gatter (Address) 412 dears fold Boston lunge Bucknam Due Boston, Dec. 9 get.ru Isease Birlina Dae Name SUSTOLIC, as and made oath the Boton that Nounbee 21ch D. 10019 of Personally appeared George Buckenami Drive regioning affidavit by him subscribed la tree. Surroun, as Dec 2b M.D. appear Before me bharles Paraditch of the Pence. and made eath that the Bonegying Louiscribed is true. Filed, Nm 25 190L Filed, Die 24 Before IN - 1901. I, Walterial that I gave notice to and acceptators of Roberts for Mantha R.Maz Ament caspenter am of we Joseph P Beach and William His late of lania the will of Amelia 6 Acclem polity notice of to and accept in the County of Buffell. day of September A.D. 1 the time of said appointment, decreased, within the months from the fifth has the County of Hattelle new Staves and Abit if testate, direct wt by publishing d solifestion threat once In each week for that - weeks, in the Botter Advertise day of October A.D. 1991 the time, of sald appointer published in Roston, by publishing a notification thereof once in each week for three week September - on the published in Busine, 100) and the following in a true enjoy three via. day of November D. 1901 and the following is in true copy Notice is hereby given|that the subscribers have breas daly appointed executive of the will of Sarah R Mame late of Enton the Country of taken trust by giving hand late of Bast Haven Natige le hereby given that the subscribert have appointed the Interest testage, appointed you Franks Reed of Interman background light benefity new Ha deceased, Martha Management P. Majorie director has decrargel, the bounty finalful and Commensional living TH Bestate, and have Mathet trust by bond All person's having demands suppose the estate of said deceased are arquired a exhibit the and all persons Indibited to All permission having throughous upon the estate of sold deceased are required to called upon to make payment to / (Address) 48 it called agency to make againment to the subjectiver Boston, september 190L - Martha R. Magous (Address) bare 53 State St. Walter's Boston, October 19alm SUNVOLE, as Dearth julity & Roberts or State of connectient - " Personally appearan Walter T date Revenue. new Harry shutter Dec 2.8 A.D. 1901 Personally appeare and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by I subscribed is true. William A Bowere Justine of the I and made eath that the forgeing allblavis by them Ideal Before la true. Decry 19th Before me, Filed, 105 Filed, Dec 30 1901 we Edward b Hodges and Amory & Hodges Francis bwelch one of the Executo do testify notice of appointment to and accipitance of the Grant of of the will of game SK Hodges late of Boston International notice of my element to and accept in a County of Ballolism deceased, testate, within there months from the h Compler of Butfolk, deemand, training wit day of November publishing a notification thirsof once In each week for three - weeks, In the Boston Daily Advertiser A.D. 1001 the time of sald apprintment, day of December A.D. 198) the time of and by by publishing a politication thereof uses in each week for three automotive week a newspaper publishing in Boaton the on the day of November A.D. gol and the following is copy thereof, vis. CITY published In Boston, a true December A.D. 1961 . and the following in a true copy Notice is hereby given that the subscriber$ have Jerger Borton daily appointed executates of the will of game H Hodger Notice is hereby given that the subscriber have tree duly appointed asset late of County of stalk Into of decaused. Sentato, and have taken uponther trust by giving bonds dedward Lb of in the bounty by giving deceased, lightsta, and have middles trust Boston - be agent, as the law director AS persons having deniandajup. the estate of deceased are required to habit the said estate are All personal having damania upon the estate of said decembed are required to exi called upon to make payment to the subscriber A (Address) november eg - 1991 Edward b. Hodger called to make payment to the subscriber@ (Subtotal) 73 Tremontal 1034. toorton mail Bosion, Amory & Dosion, December.12. Edward Hodger and Service BMS Personally Hudger Survers, M December 3.1 Personally appeared that the longbing affidavit by la true and toods with that Singel the applicants by is tree. Filed Dec 31 [deal] Before AMERICA A true moard, Attent 18 commonwealth Avenue, Boston April, 36th, 1902, Superintendent Mt Auburn Cemetery Carbridge, Mass. Dear Sir, I wish to have the three headstones in 10 lot at Mt Auburn, of 4474, placed upon a permanent cemented foundation. Will you kindly let me Know the cost of doing SO 2 The outer ends of the two outside stones should be get SO as to be in a line with the two sides of the myrtle bed which covers the three graves and the lower side of all three stones, the one toward the myrtle bed, should be in a single line, forming the toi of the mvrtle bed; the two spaces be- tween the three stones should be made equal in width; and the surface level of the stones, rising slightly ahove the sod the will surround them on three sides and the myrtle bed below, should be the same for all. Trusting to hear from you shortly in reply, I am Very truly yours, P. S. The third of these stones, the one to go over the grave made last fall in which Mrs Dorr was buried, will be delivered to you for setting by Alexander McDonald & Son 25 soon as the inscription has been out apon it. Kindly receive the same from them upon delivery and oblige, GRD USD No interment shall be made until the fees shall have been paid. SEE RULES AND RECULATIONS, ART. V. ORDER FOR INTERMENT in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn. The undersigned wishes, on the 245 day of October 1901, to deposit the remains of mary may Dorr in a BRIOT or common grave in Lot No. 4474 owned by him of Charles H. Dora late of Boston who died at Boston on the 21 day of October 1901, aged 81 years months 22 days. Dated at Cambridge Gunge B. Dore this 23nd day of October 190/. Proprietor of Lot Gives address 18 Commit air Rollon No. 4474 Funeral services at Boston at 12 o'clock. Eastman Undertaker. This order, PROPERLY SIGNED, must be presented at the Cemetery at least TWENTY-FOUR HOURS before the interment. Every order for interment must be signed by the proprietor, or his or her legal attorney; and after the decease of the proprietor, by some authorized person. Please designate precisely in what part of the lot the interment is to be made. Evergreen- 7/18/2019 Mary Gray Ward Dorr (1820-1901) - Find A Grave Memorial ? Find A GRaVE Mary Gray Ward Dorr MARY CRAY WARD DORK born in Boston's BIRTH 29 Sep 1820 ou September 29 1820. Boston, Suffolk County, died in Boston Massachusetts, USA bn October 21. 1901 DEATH 21 Oct 1901 (aged 81) Photo added by Sharon Lavash Hawkins Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA BURIAL Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA PLOT Raven Path, Lot 4474 MEMORIAL ID 107076409 . View Source Family Members Spouse Children Charles William Hazen Dorr Ward Dorr 1821-1893 1851-1876 George Bucknam Dorr 1853-1944 Inscription 7/18/2019 Mary Gray Ward Dorr (1820-1901) - Find A Grave Memorial Mary Gray Ward Dorr Born in Boston on September 29, 1820 Died in Boston on October 21, 1901 Created by: Sharon Lavash Hawkins Added: 22 Mar 2013 Find A Grave Memorial 107076409 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 18 July 2019), memorial page for Mary Gray Ward Dorr (29 Sep 1820-21 Oct 1901), Find A Grave Memorial no. 107076409, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Sharon Lavash Hawkins (contributor 47124807) . Copyright © 2019 Find A Grave . Privacy Statement . Terms of Service DUP. Epp, Ronald From: Bouvier, Elizabeth [elizabeth.bouvier@sjc.state.ma.us) Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:40 PM To: Epp, Ronald Cc: 'warner_m@jud.state.ma.us' Subject: RE: DORR Research Dear Professor Epp: Your recent e-mail to Marnie Warner was forward to my attention by Ms. Warner. Our office oversees the permanent records of the state court system, including the Probate records, First Series (1643 -1894) for Suffolk County. You indicate that you have seen the probate record filed in Hancock County, ME for Charles H. Dorr and that the same will was also filed in Suffolk County, MA. Were the provisions in the will concerning his property, real and personal, at 18 Commonwealth Ave. in this same will? You indicate that Charles H. Dorr's widow, Mary continued to retain the above property until her death in October, 1901 when the Commonwealth Ave. property was bequeathed in her will to her son George Bucknam Dorr. I assume that you have already read through the entire probates for both the Dorr's which were filed at the Suffolk County Probate Department (docket #92160 Charles Hazen and docket # 118788 Mary G. W. Dorr). You might also want to look at the Docket Book for each probate to see what was filed and compare it against what you have already seen. (There may have been a schedule A and B filed that gave some information on the value of the estate) Given that there appears not to be other real or potential direct heirs to place claims on the estate it would not be unusual for there not to be an inventory of the estate or appraisal of its worth. Furthermore, since there were no liens or other actions against either estate for unpaid debts there would be no requirement to list property, personal or real which could be sold at auction to satisfy creditors. Regarding the Commonwealth property. You might want to start with who the current owners are and then go backwards in a search of the Grantee/Grantor indices at the Registry of Deeds office. You might first check Boston City Directories to note whether George B. Dorr gave #18 as his legal residence and then see when he was last listed at that address. Or he may have had a caretaker and not lived there at all. If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Elizabeth Bouvier Head of Archives MA Supreme Judicial Court 3 Pemberton Sq. 16th F1. Boston, MA 02108-1701 (617) 557.1082 1 LETTERS OF CHARLES ELIOT NORTON WITH BIOGRAPHICAL COMMENT BY HIS DAUGHTER SARA NORTON AND M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE fl. ILLUSTRATED 196 (2896) VOLUME II ,P 238 MAWD Death BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Che Airerside Press Cambridge 1913 314 CHARLES ELIOT NORTON [1901 1901] ACTIVITIES OF RETIREMENT 315 Christian self-righteousness. This war of ours is The celebration had many pleasant and picturesque even more criminal, and in a profound sense more aspects, but it afforded one more illustration of the disastrous than the war in South Africa. The lesson fact that we have no genius for ceremonial pomp, and administered to England was needed by her, and if she no appreciation yet of its value in touching the poetic learn it, (and she may do so), you and I may live long imagination. There was a total lack of splendour; enough to cherish once more our old pride in her, and there was no dignity or stateliness in the arrangements. renew our hopes for her. But the most serious lack was the absence of any pres- entation of the true ideal of a great University, and of its To S. G. Ward supreme function in a modern democratic republic. SHADY HILL, 5 November, 1901. It was a disappointment to me that you had to give The celebration at Yale 1 was a great success as up your proposed visit to Boston. I should have been an advertisement, and interesting in many ways, glad to see you once more, but I do not doubt that you especially in the evidence it afforded of the astonishing were right in not attempting the journey. The death Mary change in the temper of the governors of the University of your sister1 has removed what I presume to have during recent years. It would have seemed incredible been one of the strongest motives of your coming. Her twenty-five years ago that Yale should give her [death] deprives me of a very kind friend, and almost highest degree of honour to a Catholic prelate 2 and to the only one who had many familiar memories in Charly a popular novelist, and that, on the chief day of com- common with me of persons and places dear to us both memoration of her founding, the warmest applause in childhood and youth. I was very much at the Tick- should be bestowed on the Archbishop, on a Japanese nors' and the Guilds' in those days, and your sister's Nota statesman, and on Mark Twain! - warmest, with the intimacy with my cousins led to our meeting fre- died exception, of course, of that which greeted the Harvard quently. She was a grown girl, I a little:boy, but she exactly graduate, President of the United States. By far the treated me so pleasantly that I became much attached most interesting figure on the platform crowded with to her. What a worthy set of people lived on Park year years notorieties was the Marquis Ito. He looked like a Street then, before Abbott Lawrence disturbed its Buddha in his passive serenity. His tranquil, wrinkled tranquil dignity with his big new house! There is no 10/21/08. face had the wisdom of the ages in its look, in striking room in Boston now, with all the magnificence of its contrast to the smug modern visages of the men who new palaces, and with all the costly splendours with sat near him, the politicians of the passing day. which they are adorned, to compare with Mr. Ticknor's 1 The bicentennial; at which Norton received the degree of LL.D. library, and no man to compare with him, in social 2 Archbishop Ireland. 3 Thomas Nelson Page. 4 Marquis Ito. 1 Mrs. Charles H. Dorr. 316 CHARLES ELIOT NORTON [1901 1901] ACTIVITIES OF RETIREMENT 317 experience and in culture, and, when he was at his best, view, and to have refused to consider what lay outside in refined and genial hospitality. There is no such good of it till, at last, he became incapable of being an intel- talk now-a-days, as there used to be at his table, with ligent sceptic in regard to the deeper problems of exist- Frank Gray and Prescott and Allston, and Everett and ence. I doubt if the word "evolution" occurs in its my father taking part in it. They were gentlemen of a wider application on any page of the great volume, and, breed never common, and now rare. as for the meaning of the universe, he does not seem What you tell me of your recent reading is very in- to have done other than accept the traditional creed teresting, or, I should rather say, your reflections on it which he had been taught in infancy. He is a disciple are very interesting. The truth of what you say about of the Aristotle concerning animals, not of the Aristotle the prevalence and evil of caste in England is strik- concerning the soul. He was Greek in curiosity con- ingly illustrated by, the Buller incident. But the war in cerning what lay around him, but - South Africa is doing much to undermine the system. I have been kept in the house all day by a heavy My reading of late has been mainly in Shakespeare, cold, and have been reading "The Taming of the - but I read last week with some interest Maeter- Shrew," which I had not read for many years. I had linck's book on Bees. Everything in the study of forgotten how little of Shakespeare there is in it, and Nature now-a-days tends to the lowering of human how that little is scattered through the clever extrava- conceit, incuora buona umiltà, e gran tumor appiane. ganza in brilliant touches which flash "Shakespeare" in a single word, as in such a verse as this:- To S. G. Ward "Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio"; SHADY HILL, 6 December, 1901. To-morrow I mean to return to you the "Life" of or this: Pasteur. I thank you for it, and especially for com- "Sacred and sweet was all saw in her." based mending it to me, for very likely, had you not done so, The longer one lives and the more one learns of men I should never have come to know the man who alone and of books, the greater grows the wonder of Shake- suffices to redress for France the balance of judgment, speare. No poet is more open to the carping criticism weighed down on the wrong side by her contemporary of pedants, but his superb indifference to long-sus- novelists, poets and anti-Semites. I say "alone," but tained perfection is one of his most engaging qualities. such a man could not exist unless there were others His very defects but show his mastery. like him, and the Life shows that this was the case. So far as I personally am concerned I am altogether And yet how little there is of superior thought in his indifferent as to the time when death may come. In a record. He seems to have deliberately narrowed his sense it must always come too soon, before one has TO MY FRIEND Mary Grap Ward Darr I GRATEFULLY DEDICATE THIS BOOK AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND VENERATION IN RECOGNITION OF THE WISE COUNSEL THAT SUGGESTED ITS PREPARATION AND OF THE THOUGHTFUL ADVICE THAT ACCOMPANIED AND AIDED ITS GROWTH Note: Dedication page from Josiah Royce's Spinit of lladera Philosophy (1892).