Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thomas W. Parsons” in chapter 19, page 214 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
...he characters are real.
The musician is Ole Bull; the Spanish Jew, Israel Edrehi, whom I have seen as I have painted him, etc., etc.
Other participants in the imaginary festivities are the late Thomas W. Parsons , the translator of Dante, who appears as the poet; the theologian being Professor Daniel Treadwell of Harvard
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