TC-SGH & JWH [SGHJWH], 20 May. MS: sold at auction, 20 Dec. 1917, Anderson Galleries, New York City. Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–76), American humanitarian (see 15:142 TC to SGH, 23 Oct. 1842), m., late April 1843, Julia Ward (1819–1910), humanitarian and poet.

1. The Howes were spending their honeymoon in London, staying at 31 Upper Baker St. Howe had a leg injury and was confined to the house. The couple thus sent off their letters of intro. to various persons “and were soon favored with the calls of the lettered” (letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe [Boston, 1909] 2:127–28). “Thomas Carlyle … was one of our earliest visitors. … Before taking leave of us he invited us to take tea with him on the following Sunday [21 May]” (Julia Ward Howe, Reminiscences 1819–1899 [Boston and New York, 1899] 96). Though she implied that the visit took place on Sun., JWC to JW [27 May] makes clear that the party was on Mon.