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Title: Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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rked this year as I did the year before, yet I haveworked a good deal, too, and perhaps have tried moreto fulfil the duty nearest at hand. ... I thank God formy continued life, health, and comfort. ... I ask to seeSamana free before I go. . . . Thy will be done is thetrue prayer. Samana was not to be free, spite of the efforts of itsfriends, and she was not to see it again. The record of this year and the next is a chronicle ofarduous work, with the added and ever-deepening noteof anxiety; it was only for a time that the visit toSamana checked the progress of the Doctors physicalfailure. He was able in the summer of 1874 to writethe forty-third report of the Perkins Institution: animportant one in which he reviewed his whole workamong the blind. He felt that this would probablybe his last earthly task; yet the following summerfound him again taking up the familiar work, laboringwith what little strength was left him, and when eyesand hand refused to answer the call of the spirit, die-
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THE LAST OF GREEN PEACE 355 tating to his faithful secretary. It has been told else-where how in this last summer of his life he laboredto make more beautiful and more valuable the sum-mer home which had become very dear to him. Returned to Green Peace, he had some happy daysin his garden, but for gardener and garden they werethe last days. The city had decided to put a streetthrough Green Peace: already workmen were diggingtrenches and cutting trees. Our mother went to the au-thorities, and told them of his feeble condition. Thework was stopped at once, and not resumed duringhis lifetime. Through these years her time was divided betweenthe invalid and the many public duties which hadalready taken possession of her life. Little by littlethese were crowded out: instead of lecture or concertcame the ever-shortening walk with the Doctor, theevening game of whist or backgammon which lighteneda little his burden of pain and weariness. Yet she was preparing, on January 4, 1876, to keepa lec

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