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Florence, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
h spoils from the archives which you searched. Most careful eyes have examined the archives of the Indies, and obtained from them all that was thought to illustrate the histories of Mexico and Peru. Prescott's copies of manuscripts amount to many volumes. His accumulations on the subject of Mexico and Peru ceased long ago. He is now making collections for the great work of his life,—the reign of Philip II. In this he was much aided by Sparks, during his last visit; by Edward Everett, at Florence; by Greene, at Rome; but above all by the learned Gayangos, now Professor of Arabic at Madrid (did you see him there?), who is employed specially to assemble all that he can find in the archives and libraries of Spain illustrative of this important reign. Fame and fortune both descend upon Prescott. Bentley has paid him six hundred and fifty pounds for the Conquest. He refused fifteen thousand dollars for it from the Harpers. They have paid him in cash seventy-five hundred dollars for
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 30
n of the same Congress. We shall then be heard, at least. We are enjoying Prescott's success. His work Conquest of Mexico. has been received with unprecedented favor. It is an exquisite book, more interesting and complete than the other: I ameyes have examined the archives of the Indies, and obtained from them all that was thought to illustrate the histories of Mexico and Peru. Prescott's copies of manuscripts amount to many volumes. His accumulations on the subject of Mexico and Peru Mexico and Peru ceased long ago. He is now making collections for the great work of his life,—the reign of Philip II. In this he was much aided by Sparks, during his last visit; by Edward Everett, at Florence; by Greene, at Rome; but above all by the learned Gayangint resolutions of Congress, approved by President Tyler, March 2, 1845. which was entered into in fraud of the rights of Mexico, and in defiance of the principles of the laws of nations. The Locofoco party, in adopting the measure of annexation, ha
Schenectady (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
rrison school. The two classmates met from time to time, Browne removed to Boston in 1844. but the old intimacy was not renewed. At one of their meetings, the Brook Farm Association, then established at West Roxbury, of which George Ripley Some years later, Sumner's relations with Mr. Ripley, who had joined the staff of the New York Tribune, became intimate. The latter replied in that journal to an unfriendly newspaper criticism of Sumner's Phi Beta Kappa address, delivered at Schenectady, N. Y., in 1849. Mr. Ripley writes:— This led to a correspondence, and afterwards an acquaintance of some intimacy, Sumner visiting at my house in New York, and seldom passing through the city without calling. This continued till a short time before his death. I was always struck with some traits, and frequently mentioned them to my friends, for which, I imagine, he did not usually get credit. He was singularly frank and transparent in the expression of his feelings; free from any appro
Madrid (Spain) (search for this): chapter 30
the Indies, and obtained from them all that was thought to illustrate the histories of Mexico and Peru. Prescott's copies of manuscripts amount to many volumes. His accumulations on the subject of Mexico and Peru ceased long ago. He is now making collections for the great work of his life,—the reign of Philip II. In this he was much aided by Sparks, during his last visit; by Edward Everett, at Florence; by Greene, at Rome; but above all by the learned Gayangos, now Professor of Arabic at Madrid (did you see him there?), who is employed specially to assemble all that he can find in the archives and libraries of Spain illustrative of this important reign. Fame and fortune both descend upon Prescott. Bentley has paid him six hundred and fifty pounds for the Conquest. He refused fifteen thousand dollars for it from the Harpers. They have paid him in cash seventy-five hundred dollars for the liberty of printing, during the first year, five thousand copies. There have been generou
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
etts House of Representatives, of which he was a member, against an extension of equity jurisdiction, by brandishing, in a theatrical way, the voluminous record of an equity case; but success won in this way was short-lived. Law Reporter, April, 1846, Vol. VIII. pp. 556-558. The American sources of the annotator of English Chancery Reports were then very limited, consisting chiefly of the New York series of reports by Johnson, Paige, and Edwards, a few volumes issued in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Maryland, besides cases in equity heard in other States, which were intermingled in the reports with those decided at law. But the English Chancery Reports published later than Vesey's, and Story's treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, his greatest work, supplied rich materials. These Sumner faithfully used; and he added—a novel feature in an edition of Reports—biographical notices of judges and lawyers whose names occur in the text. The extensive annotations of Hovenden, which had
West Roxbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
fully engaged in his own pursuits. Browne, at a later period, in 1838, disconnected himself from his political party and withdrew, as far as is possible for a lawyer to do, from public affairs. His anti-slavery convictions were earnest; and he consorted with Abolitionists of the Garrison school. The two classmates met from time to time, Browne removed to Boston in 1844. but the old intimacy was not renewed. At one of their meetings, the Brook Farm Association, then established at West Roxbury, of which George Ripley Some years later, Sumner's relations with Mr. Ripley, who had joined the staff of the New York Tribune, became intimate. The latter replied in that journal to an unfriendly newspaper criticism of Sumner's Phi Beta Kappa address, delivered at Schenectady, N. Y., in 1849. Mr. Ripley writes:— This led to a correspondence, and afterwards an acquaintance of some intimacy, Sumner visiting at my house in New York, and seldom passing through the city without calling
Williamstown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
nder Hillard's care, to be the guest of Mr. Nathan Appleton, whose summer home was at Pittsfield. Here he breathed the invigorating air of the Berkshire hills, took frequent rides to Lenox, and occasional excursions beyond to Lanesborough and Williamstown. Among well-known residents of Pittsfield, whose courtesies he received, was George N. Briggs, then Governor of the State. Mr. Newton, a retired merchant, lent him a horse; and, well-mounted, he enjoyed keenly the lovely landscapes of Westerto my spending the day. I did wrong to absent myself so long when I had not given notice beforehand. On Monday, Mr. Appleton, Edward Austin, and myself, in a carriage hired in the town, with two respectable horses and a good driver, went to Williamstown by a beautiful road through Lanesborough, then to North Adams, where we passed the night. The Governor was run away with this morning in his wagon, and his life endangered. I called on him this afternoon, and had a long conversation about
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
t we are long without news of her; and from silence I infer what is melancholy. She is fading like a flower which will never bloom again, except in Paradise. We have agreeable letters from Horace, written from the top of the mountains in New Hampshire. All has gone well. I am glad that he has been at the Community; that he has seen the superiority of the spiritual and intellectual over the merely physical; that he has felt the warmth of genial kindness and friendship; that he has had a year or more of happiness; and that, finally, in the exercise of his own judgment, without undue influence from any quarter, he has deliberately elected the farm in New Hampshire. Perhaps you will join with me in thinking that all has been for the best. . . . Bancroft's History of the Revolution goes to press in June. He has asked me to read it before it is published. And this reminds me to suggest to you, if you are writing for the public, to submit what you write to one or more discreet,
Leydon (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 30
You will read of the death of Judge Prescott,—aged eighty-two. He passed away most tranquilly. He had dressed for the day and was in his library, when he was seized with a weakness which in twenty minutes closed in death. His fortune is one of the largest ever left by a lawyer in our part of the world. It is said to be three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. At last, the Historical Society propose to publish a volume of Transactions. Your article Memoirs of the Pilgrims at Leyden. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. XXXIX. pp. 42-74. will appear. Dr. Bell, the head of the McLean Asylum for the Insane, goes to Europe, at the request of the Committee in Providence, who are about to establish an asylum there. I think you may promote his views; and I have accordingly asked him to call on you. He has the confidence of the best people here, and is reputed to have peculiar skill in the treatment of the insane. I lead a very quiet life this win
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action. I was a Whig because I thought this party represented the moral sentiments of the country,—that it was the party of Humanity. Speech, June 28, 1848. His letters to friends and his published communications on the Right of Search and the Creole case show that, among the political questions of the day, those relating to Slavery were then uppermost in his thoughts. There were some points aside from their distinctive measures in which the Whigs came nearer to his views than their opponeyears later, when the slavery question drew a sharp line of division between them. Even at this period, however, when in such general accord with him, Sumner stated with emphasis Mr. Webster's limitations, protesting against the doctrines of his Creole letter, and lamenting that he lacked the moral elevation and nobler spirit of Channing. But, among public men, John Quincy Adams most enlisted his enthusiasm. Disapproving the ex-President's disregard at times of parliamentary restrictions,
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