Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr.   By: Edward B. Hall

WIFE OF HENRY WARE, JR.

BY EDWARD B. HALL.

Seventh Thousand.

BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: CHARLES S. FRANCIS AND COMPANY 1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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CONTENTS.

I. INTRODUCTION

II. CHILDHOOD

Parentage. Character of the Mother. First Training of Mary Pickard. Early Visit to England. Friends there. Voyage Home. Extracts from Letters. Residence in Boston. Pearl Street. First Friendships. Nature and Education. A Friend's Description of Mary.

III. MENTAL AND MORAL CULTURE

School at Hingham. A Teacher's Reminiscence. Sickness and Death of Mrs. Pickard. Mary's Position. Her Father's Circumstances. Dr. Park's School. Earliest Letters. Thoughts and Themes. Chosen Friend. Peculiar Confidence. Return to Hingham. Teacher's Account. Moral Decision and Declaration. Letters. Joining the Church. Henry Ware.

IV. DISCIPLINE AND CHARACTER

Mr. Pickard's Embarrassments. His Correspondence with Mary. Her Sympathy and Faith. Her Teacher's Testimony to her Piety. She leaves Hingham. Her Grandfather's Death. Devotion to her Grandmother. Visit to Northampton. Her Self distrust. Interest in Dr. Churning. Letters on his Preaching, and Interview with him. Correspondence with Miss Cushing. Death of her Grandmother.

V. CHANGES AT HOME

Leaving Pearl Street. Fears for the Future. Pecuniary Means. Business and Travel. New York and Baltimore. Mr. Pickard's Displeasure. Return to Boston. Letters on Providence and Bereavement. Death of J. E. Abbot. Living in Dorchester. Morbid Feelings. Marriage of her Friend. Her own Trials. Influence upon others. Interesting Case. Dr. Channing's Absence and Return. Death of her Father.

VI. VISIT ABROAD

Loneliness. Invitation to go Abroad. Letters relating to it. A Friend's Admiration. Arrival in England. Mrs. Freme. Letters from London and Broadwater. Isle of Wight. Paris. Her Friends' Return to America. She remains with Relatives in England. Chatham. Burcombe House. Many Letters. Arrival of E. P. F. from America. Letters from Sydenham. Tour to Scotland. Description of the Country.

VII. SCENES OF SUFFERING

The Poor Aunt. Osmotherly. Sickness and Sorrow among Kindred. Mary the Chief Nurse and Devoted Laborer. Details in Successive Letters. She goes to Penrith. Recalled to Osmotherly. Further Changes. Her own Sickness. Anxiety of Friends in England and America. Joy at her Escape.

VIII. NEW RELATIONS

Return from England. Welcome Home. Labors of Love. Henry Ware's Preaching. Interest and Engagement. Their Letters to Friends. Views of the Relation of Stepmother. Parish Relations and Duties. Sense of Responsibility. Desire of Usefulness. Visit to Northampton. Disappointments. Husband's Illness at Ware. She goes to him. Thence to Worcester. Birth of her First Child. Husband's Journey for Health. Poetical Epistle to his Wife. Newton. Return to Sheafe Street. Attachment and Removal. Brookline. Plan for Cambridge. Thoughts of Europe. End of Parish Life.

IX. EUROPEAN TOUR