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# Representative women of New England/Lue S. Wadsworth

​LUE STUART WADSWORTH was born in Springfield, Cal., July 21, 1857, daughter of Samuel H. and Margaret P. (Turner) Stuart. Her parents moved to Boston in 1869, and she received her education in the schools of that city. As Lue Stuart, she was married April 30, 1881, to Captain Edward B. Wadsworth, of Connecticut.
Mrs. Wadsworth is a descendant of seven Revolutionary soldiers, and through their services is an active member of John Adams Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and an associate member of Paul Jones Chapter in the same organization.
Being greatly interested in patriotic work, she joined Dahlgren Woman's Relief Corps, No. 20, of South Boston, in 1887, and since that time has been one of the most active workers in the order. She served as President of Corps No. 20 three years, and as its Patriotic Instructor for ten years. She was the first Patriotic Instructor to place flags in the Boston schools; and, through her efforts, flags, copies of the Declaration of Independence, and oleographs of the origin and history of the stars and stripes have been placed in all South Boston schools, both public and parochial.
In 1903 she was National Patriotic Instructor of the Woman's Relief Corps, and by her efforts succeeded in obtaining an appropriation of six hundred dollars for the promotion of patriotic education in the schools of the South.
Inheriting the patriotic blood of her ancestors, she is constantly striving to create an increased devotion to flag and country among the younger generation. She is a ready speaker, and her services are in constant demand at patriotic gatherings. Mrs. Wadsworth is a charter member of the George Washington Memorial Association, a life patron of the National Council of Women of the United States, an active member of the National Education Association of the United States, Patriotic Councillor of the Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society, also a member of the Ladies' Aid Association of the Soldiers' Home and the Order of the Eastern Star, Rathbone Sisters, and Odd Ladies.
She has been a prominent club woman for many years, holding memborship in the Woman's Charity Club, Mattapanock Woman's Club, Pansy Club, and .several others.
# Representative women of New England/Margaret J. Butler

​MARGARET JANE BUTLER, whose name has come into prominence in connection with charity and reform work in Boston, was born in Sebago, Me., a daughter of John Emery and Mary Ann (Farr) McDonald, and is of Scotch descent. After taking up her residence in Boston in her early womanhood, Mrs. Butler became interested in the woman suffrage movement, and soon joined the ranks. She is a fluent speaker, and her voice has ever been raised in the causes of freedom and of philanthropy. She is closely identified with the Woman's Relief Corps, the Soldiers' Ladies' Aid Society, and was the in​corporator of a charitable organization known as the Ladies' Lyceum Union. Her work has been wide and varied, and she has been an active member of the following named organizations: Keystone Chapter, No. 18, Order of the Eastern Star; Improved Order of Red Men, Degree of Pocahontas; Women's Auxiliary Board to the Scots' Charitable Society; Charles Russell Lowell Relief Corps, No. 28; Ladies' Aid Association of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts; Women's Charity Club; the Progressive Fraternity; Mary Washington Lodge, No. 1, Daughters of Rebekah; Garret A. Hobart Assembly, No. 383, R. S. G. F.
At her summer home in Maine numbers of poor, over-worked people have been cheered and helped by all the comforts that a good hostess can furnish, and thus enabled at the close of vacation to resume their work with renewed courage and more faith in human nature. For the past fourteen years she has held annually a May Festival, in which from two hundred to three hundred and fifty children have participated, the proceeds being expended in charity. This festival has come to be one of Boston's yearly attractions, looked forward to by many as a charming entertainment with a worthy cause for its object. For a long time Mrs. Butler's efforts were ably seconded by her husband, William S. Butler, one of the successful merchants of Boston. Mr. Butler died in 1898, and many a poor family felt they had lost a friend.
Mrs. Butler is a Spiritualist, and is one of the most successful clairvoyant physicians in the country, but has not permitted herself to become in any way bigoted or narrow-minded. When her attention has been called to persons needing assistance, she has not considered whether they were Protestant or Catholic, Jew or Gentile, but has ever been ready to help. In her own words, "I don't care whether people are black or white, blameless or blameworthy. If they are cold, I must warm them; if they are hungry, I must feed them. They are all God's children." This sentiment is typical of her. Large of heart, sympathetic in nature, frank, fearless, and outspoken, she is emphatically a type of the "new woman" that will be blessed by the coming generation.
# Quartette/Two Sonnets

Two Sonnets.
INCONSTANCY.
I thought that my whole life were fitly given, If by such gift I made your beauty mine, If by such loss I gained the highest heaven. But when I stood beside you, and your eyes Were raised to mine, their brightness all unveiled, The charm had vanished: with a sad surprise I found with nearness all desire had failed. If you had changed, or I had witless grown, Blind to your beauty, deaf to your sweet speech, I knew not, when as cold as any stone I turned from all that seemed within my reach. Now, near or far, no longer I desire That which of late set all my heart on fire.
THE FATE OF BEAUTY.
Than Death in Beauty's bloom and blossoming, Which snatching loveliness from arms of love Sets all the world a moment sorrowing. That, like a subtle forger, whose base art Obscures, defaces, desecrates at will, And leaving all yet changes every part And makes all valueless with knavish skill. This, like a thief who steals a diadem, But knowing not to change the treasure's worth, In guilty haste hides deep the priceless gem, A flawless jewel still, beneath the earth:— And yet 'twixt this and that, how hard to say Which bitter is—swift death or slow decay!
# Quartette/The Second Wooing

The Second Wooing.
There came to me One at midnight, on golden pinions, and said: "Lo! I am, Love, and I bring thee a passion back from the dead?" Then I rose in the darkness and lit the lamp, and there shone in my face The beauty of bygone years and the hope of a bygone grace. Then I clad myself as of old and sang to myself in joy: "Shall we change as woman and man who changed not as girl and boy." And He entered the room in the midst of my song and we stood apart, And I raised my eyes to His eyes, and love died out of my heart. But we kissed each other once on the lips, and His lips were cold; And hand touched hand for a moment, and then we loosened hold. And His words were as smooth as mine, but His eyes were as carven stone; And I laid my hand on His wrist, and His pulse was as calm us my own. Yet I strove to talk of our love as a thing that should have no end, But the words were changed on my tongue—and I talked as the merest friend. And he spoke of His hopes and my beauty, our struggles and hundred fears, As men tell of a dream they have dreamt to their children in after years. And as children parade the cart, the Noah's Ark and the ball, And set them in rank and order, though delight be passed from all. As men seek for fire in the embers, and rake them and turn them over, We paraded old love and we sought for new love, I and my Lover. And then, when the dawn was approaching, He paled in the coming light; And e'en as He faded from me so Love passed out of my right.
# Quartette/Parted

Parted
When the sad Sun with scanty gleam of light Like a dull sluggard, rising slow and late, Brings a dim dawn to mock my straining sight, And the new day comes heavy as a fate, 1 know that in a far-off eastern land A splendid morning rises o'er the sea, Flooding with rainbow light the shining sand, Before whose glory all Night's shadows flee; And think how one upon his pillow turns, And from the sunbeam shades his dreaming eyes, And all his heart within his bosom yearns Towards one who in the distant darkness lies. For her the burden and for him the pain, Until this riven life be joined again.
# Quartette/Rivals

Rivals.
To Love's low voice She lent a careless ear, Her hand within his rosy fingers lay, A chilling weight. She would not turn nor hear, But with averted lace went on Her way; His flow'ry wreaths beneath Her heedless feet She crushed, nor cared to breathe his offerings sweet.
But when pale Death, all featureless and grim, Lifted his bony hand, and beckoning Held out his Cypress branch, She followed him, And Love was left forlorn and wondering When She, who for his wooing would not stay, At Death's first whisper rose and went away.
# Robert E. Howard to Emil Petaja, Dec 17, 1934

First published in The Howard Collector, #7 Winter 1965 by Glenn Lord, p.25.
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Dear Mr. Petaja:
Thank you very much for the splendid sonnet. I feel deeply honored that a poem of such fine merit should be dedicated to me. You seem to grasp the motif of my stories, the compelling idea-force behind them which is the only excuse for their creation, more completely than any one I have yet encountered. This fine sonnet reveals your understanding of the abstractions I have tried to embody in these tales.
In response to your request for an ms. copy, I am sure I can find something of the sort, when I rearrange my files, which are at the present in a chaotic state. In the meantime I am enclosing a so far unpublished bit of verse, "Cimmeria", for your notebook. Hope you like it.
Thanking you again for the splendid sonnet, I am,
Cordially,
Robert E. Howard
# Robert E. Howard to Robert Barlow, Dec 17, 1935

First published in The Last of the Trunk och Brev i Urval (2007). Barlow was publisher at Dragonfly Press; references Frank Belknap Long's Goblin Tower.
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Dear Mr. Barlow:
Thank you very much for the copy of the Goblin Tower; a neat, attractive job of printing and binding which does credit to Long's splendid verse.
Robert E. Howard
This work is from the United States and in the public domain because it was not legally published with the permission of the copyright holder before January 1, 2003 and the author died more than 70 years ago. This is a posthumous work and its copyright in certain countries and areas may depend on years since posthumous publication, rather than years since the author's death. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted.
This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# Robert E. Howard to The Californian, Summer 1936

Letter to The Californian. Dated Summer 1936.
Thank you very much for the copy of The Californian. I feel greatly honored that Miss Wooley should have quoted an excerpt from my serial Beyond the Black River in her article in your fine journal.
# Robert E. Howard to The Fantasy Fan, Jan 1934

Letter to The Fantasy Fan. Dated January 1934.
I liked the November issue very much and hope you'll publish more of Smith's poetry.
Robert E. Howard
# Robert E. Howard to The Fantasy Fan, May 1934

Letter to The Fantasy Fan. Dated May 1934.
Smith's poem in the March issue was splendid, as always. By all means, publish as many of his poems as possible; I would like to see more by Lumley, and it would be a fine thing if you could get some of Lovecraft's poetry.
Robert E. Howard
# Robert E. Howard to Fort Worth Record, Jul 20, 1928

Letter to the newspaper Fort Worth Record. Dated July 20, 1928. Tom Heeney fought Gene Tunney for the world heavyweight title on July 26, 1928 at Yankee Stadium, New York. Tunney won the match in the 11th round and held his title; he announced his retirement on July 31, 1928, relinquishing the title undefeated.
Tunney can't win. After the fight, Tom Heeney is going to be heavyweight champion of the world, not through any special virtue of his, but simply because there's a jinx on Tunney that Gene can't whip.
Now get this: Back in 1892 James J. Corbett, a skillful boxer, whipped John L. Sullivan, a superslugger, and then knocked out Charles Mitchell, the only man who'd ever given John L. much of an argument.
Now: Some years later, in 1926, James J. Tunney, like Corbett, an Irishman, whipped Jack Dempsey, a superslugger, after having knocked out Tom Gibbons, the only man who'd been able to stay with Jack—the only difference being that Tunney knocked out Gibbons before he won the title and not after.
Now, that lines Corbett and Tunney up together enough, I guess. Both Irish, both boxers, both named James J., both winning their titles from dark-browed, furious sluggers of Irish blood.
All right: Corbett in 1897 met an ex-blacksmith from New Zealand—Irish and a rugged fighter, named Tom Heeney. Result—? A new champion, I say. Heeney isn't Tunney's equal in speed, punch or cleverness, but then Corbett had it all over Fitzsimmons in the way of speed and skill.
So, just as I predicted Dempsey's defeat by Tunney when I heard Gene's real name was James J., so I now predict defeat for Tunney because of the New Zealnad jinx, a factor to be reckoned with. I hope Tunney wins; I like Heeney, but I like Tunney better. Still, I predict his defeat.
# Robert E. Howard to The Ring, Apr 1926

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Here is my opinion on the greatest heavyweights of all time: Boxing reached its height between 1892 and 1905. That was the ring’s Golden Era. The culmination of perfection, the pinnacle of achievement, the greatest heavyweight of all time was James J. Jefferies. Records prove that. During his reign there flourished the greatest collection of heavyweights ever seen, and he was the greatest of all. He defeated all manner of boxers.
In Corbett he beat the fastest heavyweight and the cleverest boxer that ever lived; in Fitzsimmons the most effective hitter of any time; in Tom Sharkey, the greatest of all near champions. While Jefferies would not rank first in skill, speed or hitting ability, for all around prowess he was invincible.
Peter Jackson never saw the day that he could have beaten Jefferies; and the idea of Johnson beating Jefferies when the white man was at his best is ridiculous. Johnson lacked both the ability and the nerve. As for Sullivan and Dempsey, they would have fought themselves out punching Jefferies, and then have been defeated. If there ever was a man who might have won from Jefferies it was Corbett, when at his prime.
This is my rating of heavyweights: James J. Jefferies; James J. Corbett; Jack Dempsey; Peter Jackson; Bob Fitzsimmons; John L. Sullivan; Tom Sharkey; Kid McCoy; Sam Langford; Jack Johnson; Louis Firpo and Jess Willard.
# Robert E. Howard to The Fantasy Fan, Dec 1933

Letter to The Fantasy Fan. Dated December 1933.
I find the Fantasy Fan very interesting and think it has a good fortune. Anybody ought to be willing to pay a dollar for the privilege of reading, for a whole year, the works of Lovecraft, Smith, and Derleth. I am glad to see that you announce a poem by Smith in the next issue. He is a poet second to none. Weird poetry possesses an appeal peculiar to itself and the careful use of it raises the quality of any magazine. I liked very much the department of 'True Ghost Stories,' and hope you will continue it. The world is full of unexplained incidents and peculiar circumstances, the logical reasons for which are often so obscure and hidden that they are lent an illusion of the supernatural.
Robert E. Howard
# Royal Naval Biography/Kitchen, William Hewgill

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WILLIAM HEWGILL KITCHEN, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 12th May, 1808; advanced to his present rank m the beginning of Mar. 1827; and appointed an inspecting commander of the coast guard, July 6th, 1830. He married, in 1820, Miss Bell, of Shields, co. Durham.
# Royal Naval Biography/Kingcome, John

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JOHN KINGCOME, Esq. [Commander.]
Was made a lieutenant on the 1st July, 1815; appointed to the Tees 26, Captain Thomas Coe, fitting out for the East Indies, July 29th, 1821; and promoted by that officer to the command of the Larne sloop, on hearing of the death of Commodore Grant, in 1821. Unfortunately for him, the two ships were then far distant, and without any means of communication, the one being at New South Wales, and the other engaged in the Burmese war, which prevented him from joining the Larne at Rangoon, until April 15th, 1825. He subsequently conveyed the lady of Commodore Sir James Brisbane, and her two daughters, from Madras to Penang; and the Archdeacon Scott, from Sydney, New South Wales, to Van Diemen’s Land.
Whilst at Sydney, the Lame was sunk in the act of heaving down, and had her main-mast struck by lightning. From Van Diemen’s Land, she proceeded to New Zealand and Norfolk Island, where acting Commander Kingcome and his first lieutenant W. Burdett Dobson, were swamped in her cutter when attempting to land. Mar. 2d, 1826. She returned to Madras via Torres Straits, touching at Melville Island, Batavia, and Sincapore.
On the 14th July following, this officer was appointed lieutenant of the Pandora sloop. Captain William Clarke Jervoise, a commission having arrived from England promoting Lieutenant Dobson to the command of the Larne. His own advancement to the rank of commander did not take place until Jan. 8th, 1828.
# Royal Naval Biography/Kippen, George

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GEORGE KIPPEN, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1814.]
Was born in 1781. He entered the navy in 1796, and served as midshipman on board the Captain 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Nelson, at the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797. He also fought under the same hero at Teneriffe, the Nile, and Trafalgar. We subsequently find him serving under Sir Alexander Cochrane, on the Leeward Islands station, where, he was promoted to the command of the Peruvian brig, Aug. 21, 1812. In that vessel he captured, after an anxious chase pf 15 hours, and a running fight of some duration, the American privateer ship John, of 16 guns and 100 men. He obtained post rank Oct. 1, 1814; and died, in Scotland, Aug. 21, 1826.
# Royal Naval Biography/King, Richard Henry

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RICHARD HENRY KING, Esq. [Commander.]
Passed for lieutenant in May or June 1811; obtained his first commission on the 12th July, 1813; and subsequently served under Captains Joseph G. Garland and Thomas J. Cochrane, in the Alert sloop and Forte frigate, the latter employed for some time on the West India and Halifax stations. He was advanced to his present rank on the 27th Aug. 1828.
This officer married, May 4th, 1830, Mary, daughter of the late Samuel Twyford, Esq., of Trotton, co. Sussex.
# Royal Naval Biography/Kittoe, Edward

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EDWARD KITTOE, Esq. [Post-Captain of 1810.]
Entered the navy, in Dec. 1780, as a midshipman on board the Bellona 74, Captain (afterwards Sir Richard) Onslow; in which ship, and the Standard 64, he served on the Channel station, until the peace of 1783. During the next three years we find him in the Grampus 50, on the coast of Africa. He afterwards successively removed into the Scout sloop; Trusty 50, bearing the flag of Sir John Laforey, with whom he proceeded to the West Indies; and Royal George 110, flag-ship of Sir Alexander Hood; under which latter officer he continued until his promotion, and appointment to the Saturn 74, Feb. 26, 1794.
In the following month. Lieutenant Kittoe joined the Hebe frigate. Captain Alexander Hood; and in June 1796, he was appointed acting Commander of the Pelican sloop, on the Leeward Islands’ station. That vessel formed part of Rear-Admiral Harvey’s squadron at the unsuccessful attack of Porto Rico, April 1797.
On the 13th Sept., same year, Lieutenant Kittoe, then commanding the Bittern of 16 guns, engaged and captured l’Agréable French privateer, mounting 18 guns, with a complement of 115 men. His appointment to the Bittern was confirmed by the Admiralty soon after this action. On the 8th Sept. 1798, he captured le Dix Août privateer, of 12 guns and 50 men.
Early in 1803 the subject of this sketch was appointed acting Captain of la Minerve frigate; and we subsequently ​find him superintending the equipment of the Britannia, a first rate. In May 1804, he obtained the command of l’Argus sloop, from which vessel he removed to the Sabrina of 18 guns, about Oct. 1806; the latter he commanded during the Walcheren expedition, in 1809.
Captain Kittoe’s post commission bears date Jan. 4, 1810. In July foHowing he was appointed to the Milford 74, flagship of Sir Richard G. Keats, under whom he served at Cadiz, during the memorable defence of that important place; and afterwards in the Hibernia 110, on the Mediterranean station. His last appointment was, Dec. 20, 1814, to the Astraea 42, which frigate he commanded on the coast of France, until the final termination of hostilities in 1815.
* ↑ See Vol. I, note at p. 113.
* ↑ See Captains Sir Thomas Fellowes, Frederick Jennings Thomas, and William Henry Smyth.
# Royal Naval Biography/Kirby, Walter

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WALTER KIRBY, Esq. [Commander.]
Son of the late W. Kirby, M.D., of Maldon, co. Essex. This officer was made a lieutenant in Feb. 1811, and commander July 22d, 1830. He married Hannah, youngest .daughter of the late James Smith, Esq. of Langford, Essex.
# Royal Naval Biography/Kneeshaw, Joshua

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JOSHUA KNEESHAW, Esq. [Commander.]
Obtained the rank of lieutenant in Sept. 1800; and lost the hired armed cutter Georgiana, on the banks near Honfleur, whilst employed in reconnoitring the enemy’s force up the river Seine, Sept. 25th, 1804, We next find him commanding the Martial gun-brig, attached to the Walcheren expedition; and subsequently the Piercer, a similar vessel, forming part of the Heligoland squadron, under the orders of ​Captain Arthur Farquhar, by whom the following mention Is made of him in an official despatch announcing the fall of Gluckstadt, Jan. 5th; 1814:
“To Lieutenants Kneeshaw and Sir George Keith every praise is due» for their able support during the bombardment. Lieutenant Kneeshaw, who will have the honor of carrying home this despatch, is an officer of great merit – his attention to his duty since he has been under my command, claims my warmest approbation. He is an old officer, and has lost his right arm in the service of his country”.
On the 12th Jan. 1814, the day of his arrival at the Admiralty, Mr, Kneeshaw was promoted to the rank of commander, and re-appointed to the Piercer, then rated a sloop of war. In the following year he commanded the Censor 14. The present amount of his pension (originally granted in Oct. 1802) is 200l. per annum.
# Royal Naval Biography/Kinsman, John Knill

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JOHN KNILL KINSMAN, Esq. [Commander.]
Appears to have been employed, as an acting lieutenant, on the coast of Egypt, during the memorable campaign of 1801. His first commission bears date Jan. 7th, 1802. We next find him serving under Sir Robert Laurie, in the Cleopatra frigate, on the Halifax station; and he is mentioned by that officer as having rendered him “every assistance” in the action between that ship and la Ville de Milan, Feb. 17th, 1805. He obtained the rank of commander on the 17th of Sept. 1813; and died at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, in May, 1831.
# Revolution and Counter-revolution/Contents

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