[*NAWSA GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Howe, Julia Ward*] Jun 11th, 1897. Dear Alice, Do you know of any society here formed to aid young women to get a College education? The woman who wrote me asking about this things that Miss Lucia Ames is interested in such [an for] America. [*Mrs. Howe*] tion. Can you send me her address, or any word regarding the supposed Association? I doubt its existence. Total encl'd Yours, with [?]up [?], Julia W. Howe [*Mrs Julia Ward Howe*] Newport R.I. July 11th 1894. [*Rec. 13 "*] Melvin M. Johnson Esq. [?] to Asst. My dear sir, I cannot find in my Diary any record of the engagement of which your letter recd yesterday, informs me. I almost invariably note such appointments ments, time, turn, theme, etc, in the Diary afore said. Have you any letter from me promis- ing attendance and an address on July 24th? If so, I must have been much [?confused] with business at the time of writing, and so must have forgotten to make my normal record. If I have made this memoir, Please send me some word about the length of the exhibit address, and the topic assigned for it. I acknow- ledge with thanks the train tickets which were sent with your letter. Yours with respect, Julia Ward Howe 24 Beacon St. Boston De. 13, 1899 Dear Friends: I find myself obliged to furnish an article on the achievements of Women during the nineteenth century. I have very little time only till next Saturday I want statements, statistics of women in professions and business. Also records of what women have done to promote good government in public affairs especially in municipal matters Can some of you make and send a brief synopsis of such matters? Can you put me in the way of anything more than you may find time to give me? Imploringly yours Julia W, Howe I wish I could have some record of the changes in laws regarding women which have been obtained by suffragists especially here in Boston (copy) Chicago Sept 30 1893 My dear Friend Lucy Stone I hear with great sorrow and sympathy of your illness. If you know how prescious you are to us you must make a great effort to get well. No one can fill your place I feel that the combination of character and of circumstances in your life has given you an unique position even among the women who work wisely and well for the great Cause to which you have devoted so much of your life Do, dear friend, rouse up and be willing to try any change which may be helpful to you Perhaps sea or mountain air, perhaps the use of milk or some mild stimulant might avail you. We cannot afford to lose you. I know that it is easy to say this, but I feel almost sure that you have a fund of vitality stowed away somewhere which ought to carry you through this bad period. When I think of the long years in which I have known you working with you not as well nor as much as I ought to have done I am glad to remember every excursion we have made together Your single-mindedness has been a lesson and a support to me and you well know how much I have rested upon your judgment It is time that our span of life is short and at best very uncertain. We know nothing beyond but the glorifying faith which we have seen in so many saints and martyrs gives us an earnest [?] of a future for the human soul with a nearer vision of the Divine than is given to our sight during our days on earth When your summons come to pass on to that higher life you may surely expect to hear the benediction "Well done thou good and faithful servant Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord" I could write much more but fear to tax your failing strength Do let me hear soon that it begins to return to you Your very affectionate friend and fellow-worker Julia Ward Howe Italy, Letter from Mrs Howe Rome, Italy, Palazza Rusticucci Jan 5th 1898 Dear friends of the Journal [?] Although the ocean rolls between us, I do not forget that, while I am en- joying my Roman holiday, you are faithfully and incessantly at work, never laying aside the task which is so dear to you, and so important to all of us. I just moved today to send you a word of greeting, and from this old Rome to wish Happy New Year to you, and [?] 2 [?] to the newest unfolding of freedom in Christian civili- sation. A success that which shall establish true citizenship for the mothers and daughters of our great Republic. I have just paid a visit to the gardens of the Vatican, whose bounds the present Pope rarely passes. These gar dens are so extensive as to allow His Holiness a drive of some miles. The walks are bordered by high hedges of [?] [?] and of myrtle, and in many places one sees the trees laden with golden oranges. Near the entrance is an 3 ancient lodge, said to have been built during the reign of Paul 4, of the Medici family. The [st???]-pines here are very beautiful, and the grounds are adorned with many varieties of [?] cactus and this palm. In our walk, we passed a place where the laurel hedge had been [?] newly trimmed, and were allowed to carry off [?] a branch which lay upon the ground, and of which I will presently send you a bit. The limitation of ecclesiastical policy by which the Pope is not allowed to leave the Vatican 4 limits reminds me forcibly of the limitation of doctrine which claims for the Church of Rome his absolute position in a day in which [?] Absolutism is intellectually out of date. The Pope would see an united Christendom, but will hear of no union out- side of the Vatican bounds. If he could go forth, and join the great body of Christ ian believers as one of them, he would enter into that unity from which he now refuses himself. I write [at] these lines in full view of the grand church of St Peters', whose marvels 5 I have already visited more than once since my arrival in these parts. Its [marvelous] wonderful mosaics preserve indis- tinguishable repetitions of the greatest pictures the world has ever seen. The religious ser- vices are mostly held in a side chapel, which it is diffi- cult to approach by reason of the crowd. From this cha- pel, one day, I saw a proces- sion emerge, accompanying Cardinal Rampolla, who is supposed to take an active part in the Papal Govern- ment. He is a [fine] hand- some man, scarcely yet of middle age, with dark 6 eyes and hair, well set off by his scarlet robe and ermine cape. On New Year's Day I called where our [Ambassadress at the court of Italy, Miss Draper] representatives at the Italian Court, [?] and Mrs Draper. They are established in the fine Piombino palace, which they have furnished with a magnificence [?] besuiting so stately a residence. Mrs Draper is very hospitable and cordial in her manners. She allowed me to visit the whole of her beautiful suite of rooms. In the 7 ballroom still stood the Christmas tree which had been devised for the delectation of the daughter of the house, a child of six years. Among the belongings of the household is a gold table service, which was used by Mrs. Draper's father, Hon. Mr Preston of Kentucky, when he was minister to Spain, many years ago. I was surprised lately at learning that a Woman Suffrage Association exists here in Rome. I have been promised an introduction to some of its members. I 8 was also informed that a petition signed by several thousand women, was presented to King Umberto before the disastrous campaign in Abyssinni, [this In this document] urging that it should not be undertaken. I am glad to learn from papers received today that the terrible remarks of the great [?statesman] of China, Li Hung Chang, regarding the recent high- handed action of Germany, has [also allowed] called forth a fitting response from some of our own journals. I was Please tell Alice that I wrote to the secretary of state regarding the Armenian massacres. He wrote a kind note, saying that he had at once, on hearing from me, directed the U.S. Consul at Harput to visit [?Mush] & make investigations into the facts of the massacre there perpetrated. Yours, very weary with the heat. Julia Ward Howe June 21st 1904. 1905 My dear Alice, These verses were sent me from the [?West] by their author, who wishes me to get them printed in [???] one of our eastern Magazine. The printing and intention of the writer are good, but the execution is so [????] print that I feel print them? Money is not this author's object. You might possibly be willing to put them into our Journal. Can you first try either of the magazines just mentioned? It may be best to return them. Do help me at least with advice in this matter. Merry Xmas to you & N. B. B. & the Wild Child! Affect'ly, Julia Ward Howe. Saturday Dec. 23rd 1905. 6 [??]. assured before hand that they would not be accepted by any first class magazine. What shall I do with them? The offer to send a photo of the statue which suggested the lines. Do you think that with this addition the National or the Cosmopolitan would Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Rec Dec 19 1906 Ans " 19. " Please attend to the enclosed note at once. It is from Miss Jordan, Editor of Harpers' Bazar. She wants this matter probably, for an article to appear in the Bazar, which would be very important for us. But send at once some [pamphlets?] You may include [map?] of my address in Baltimore, also Mr. Wm. Curtis & Col T. W. Higginson - Miss Coffer Dustin of (?women) would also be helpful. I am sorry to write in much haste, but Miss Gorhen's note only (?reached) me at bed time last evening and I am very much engaged today. Julia Ward Howe Dec. 19th 1906 241 Beacon St. Boston Nov. 12th, 1886. My dear Mr. Foulke; - I have just written to the lady of your house and while consigning my envelope to her hand will put in a word to you. How good home tastes after a long journey even if servants do quarrel and other household cares oppress ; I am at my desk and cannot believe that I have not got to meet some train within an hour. My faithful trunk and I are divided and at present there are no relations between us. I recall some things indeed with a regret that they are already so distant. Casa Foulke remains a delightful recollection, thanks to its most kind master and mistress. And oh! won't you write me something for the paper I am to edit for the Woman Suffrage Bazaar ? I have already begged from Mrs. Foulke, but you, you know are bound to help me, for suffrage is your hobby as well as mine and you are suffrage president which I am not! I must take hasty leave, subscribing myself as your grateful and obedient subject. Julia Ward Howe. Glory to God in the Highest! In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom, that transfigures you and me. JULIA WARD HOWE Letter from Mrs. Howe (subhead) Palazzo Rusticucci Talazzo Rusticucci. Rome May 1st, 1898 solid Dear friends, I write to you from a spot which may be termed the very antipodes of Americ. an life. This ancient city of the Ceasars has been, for me card of centuries, the strong- hold first of for military, afterwards of mutual absolutism. The new focus which are changing the aspect of civilized centuries are now welcome here, but they are felt, and nor full 2 [*Pontiff*] nor decree of [Pop] Pontiff or Emperor can keep them out. The great church of St. Titus is near me as I write, but not far off I see the hill on which stands the bronze statue of Garibaldi, over topping the Vatican itself. The hundreds of Catholic churches still hold their frequent services, but religious freedom now rules in the city, and American Evangelical and Italian [Waldensi?] profess their ancient creed and enjoy their simple forms of 3 worship. The Young Men's Christian Association shows its [point?] in a noble building, endowed by Mr. [?] of New York. Catholics and Protestants have their institutions of charity side by side, and one of the most popular hospitals here, dedicated to the care of sick children, was provided by a Russian lady of the Greek orthodox belief, who devotes much of her time to the superintendence of this beneficent work. I may say [in a general way,] that the ladies of Roman 4 society are very generally interested in labors of charity. It looks now as if these ladies might form an association of mutual help and encouragement, and this would inaugurate one of the most important features of modern progress, the banding together of good women to advance [for] the good of her community. So, dear friends, be of good cheer. The march of liberal ideas does not turn aside, even to show respect to the most firmly established prejudices and superstitions. 5 And the advocates of Women Suffrage, who had [ner?] been in the army of progress, must not faint nor grow weary in well-doing. As St. Paul has said: "in [good] due season we shall reap if we faint not," and I, for one, am resolved not to faint, no, not even before the eloquence of the Remonstrants. Regretting greatly that I cannot be present at your festival, endeared to me by the memories of many years, I send you my affectionate greeting and nothing. The meeting of which you wrote me can be called in true secretary's vernac, "for the Committee." As soon as convenient,the League had better choose another president, one who can render it real service, which I have never been able to do. Faithfully yours Julia Ward Howe. [*Julia Ward Howe Jun 25/96*] Dear Mrs. Stone, I am much obliged for your kind note, and am very glad that you did omit my name in announcing the proceedings of this Suffrage Convention. Publicity, at such times as this present is with me, is painful and even seems indecourous. I hope that you will make this [work?] [as] as you proposed to do in your note. I have been fery unwell ever since my dear husband's departure, with an accumulation of colds caught in his sick room, and at the funeral. Shall visit [Hammand?] Place as soon as I can get so far. Meantime [??] the good cause! Monday Jun 25th/76 Yr' always J.W. H. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.