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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, IX: George Bancroft (search)
tionary state papers that were to follow a century later. If ever there was a document in our pre-Revolutionary history that ought to be quoted precisely as it was written, or not at all, it was this remonstrance. It thus begins in Bancroft's version, and the words have often been cited by others. He says of the colony of Massachusetts: Preparing a remonstrance, not against deeds of tyranny, but the menace of tyranny, not against actual wrong, but against a principle of wrong, on the 25th of October, it thus addressed King Charles II. The alleged address is then given, apparently in full, and then follows the remark, The spirit of the people corresponded with this address. It will hardly be believed that there never was any such address, and that no such document was ever in existence as that so formally cited here. Yet any one who will compare Bancroft's draft with the original in the Records of Massachusetts (volume IV, part 2, pages 168-169) will be instantly convinced of thi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
er vindication of a serious and carefully executed book ( Atlantic Monthly, May, 1872). He wrote also an admirable volume of lectures on the Nature and Elements of poetry for delivery at Johns Hopkins University. As years went on, our correspondence inevitably grew less close. On March 10, 1893, he wrote, I am so driven at this season, let alone financial worries, that I have to write letters when and where I can. Then follows a gap of seven years; in 1900 his granddaughter writes on October 25, conveying affectionate messages from him; two years after, April 2, 1903, he writes himself in the same key, then adds, Owing to difficulties absolutely beyond my control, I have written scarcely a line for myself since the Yale bicentennial [1901] ; and concludes, I am very warmly your friend and kinsman. It was a full, easy, and natural communication, like his old letters; but it was four years later when I heard from him again as follows, in a letter which I will not withhold, in spit