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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
lways delighted me and many other students, while his efforts at the Agamemnon of Aeschylus dealt with passages too formidable in their power for any one but Edward Fitz-Gerald to undertake. After a few years of occasional correspondence, there came a lull. Visiting New York rarely, I did not know of Stedman's business perplexities till they came upon me in the following letter, which was apparently called out by one of mine written two months before. 71 West 54th Street, New York, July 12th, 1882. My Dear Colonel,--I had gone over with the majority [that is, to Europe], when your friendly card of May 9th was written, and it finally reached me at Venice. In that city of light, air, and heavenly noiselessness, my son and myself at last had settled ourselves in ideal rooms, overlooking the Grand Canal. We had seclusion, the Molo, the Lagoon, and a good cafe, and pure and cheap Capri wine. Our books and papers were unpacked for the first time, and I was ready to make an end o