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Don Pascual (search for this): chapter 12
t peace may continue all over the world, and indeed there seems no great cause for alarm at present Without the nonsense of a Peace Society, a change is coming over the spirits of men, and it is more and more felt that war is not to be undertaken for frivolous punctilios or unimportant interests. . . . . Believe me, my dear sir, Very truly yours, Henry Hallam. A few months later Mr. Ticknor writes as follows:— To Don P. De Gayangos. Boston, October 14, 1850. My dear Don Pascual,—I wrote you last on the 19th of August, since which I have not heard from you directly; but I know that the copies of my History which I sent to Mr. Barringer and to Don Adolfo de Castro, through your kindness, have safely reached their destination. Don Adolfo writes to me very agreeably about my book, but says he shall answer what I have said about the Buscapie. Young Prescott has returned lately, and brought me the fine copies of Ayllon's Cid, 1579, and of the Toledana Discreta, 16
Edinburgh Review (search for this): chapter 12
ped me already somewhat, and has volunteered to procure the copies; but he lives in London, and is going with his nice, pretty English wife to Tunis as Spanish Consul, moved to it by his vast Arabic learning, which he hopes there to increase. He is an excellent, and, besides, an agreeable person, who was much liked at Holland House, and is well known and in good request in much of the best literary society of London; the author of the article on Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella in the Edinburgh Review, etc., etc. Now, I wish your permission to have him come and see you in London, which I will desire him to do, and let him give you a written memorandum of what he has ordered for me in Madrid, the person of whom he has ordered it, and the best mode of accomplishing there all I desire, which is really not much. . . . . Pray do not think me unreasonable, and pray refuse me plainly if you foresee more trouble in it than I do. I am very sorry you are not coming to Boston to embark. We
Obadiah Rich (search for this): chapter 12
cter from the literary purpose for which it was collected. His correspondence with Don Pascual de Gayangos, See ante, pp. 161 and 182. his constant orders to Mr. Rich, Mr. Obadiah Rich, once Consul of the United States at Port Mahon, a faithful and cultivated bibliopole, was, as a London bookseller, Mr. Ticknor's agent for Mr. Obadiah Rich, once Consul of the United States at Port Mahon, a faithful and cultivated bibliopole, was, as a London bookseller, Mr. Ticknor's agent for many years. and to others, for Spanish books, and for all accessory materials, became, as the years went on, more and more marked by indications of the absorbing subject he had in hand. Three years and a half after his return to America he wrote as follows to Mr. Washington Irving, who had just accepted the post of Minister froes: I am willing to pay high prices for them,—not des prix fous, as the French say,—but I am willing to pay high prices decidedly, rather than lose them; and to Mr. O. Rich, in June of the same year: I wish to give you carte blanche, and feel sure that with my letter of January 27, and this list of my books, you cannot mistake my w
one of a popular character, could reach at once in England. This shows that America is fast taking a high position as a literary country; the next half-century will be abundantly productive of good authors in your Union. And it is yet to be observed that there is not, nor probably will be, a distinct American school The language is absolutely the same, all slight peculiarities being now effaced; and there seems nothing in the turn of sentiment or taste which a reader can recognize as not English. This is not only remarkable in such works as yours and Mr. Prescott's, but even, as it strikes me, in the lighter literature, as far as I see it, of poetry or belles-lettres . . . . You will, I hope, be pleased to learn that Lord Mahon has proposed your name as an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. You will be united in this with Everett, Prescott, and Bancroft. Lord Mahon, as President of the Society, said at its annual meeting, April 23, 1850: It is also with great pl
C. C. Felton (search for this): chapter 12
re the following: London Quarterly (by Richard Ford); North American, January, 1850 (by W. H. Prescott); British Quarterly, February, 1850; London Athenaeum, March, 1850; Revue des Deux Mondes, 1850 (by Rossieuw de St. Hilaire); El Heraldo, Madrid, March, 1850 (by Domingo del Monte); London Morning Chronicle, May, 1850 (by Shirley Brooks, who wrote to Mr. Ticknor to inform him of the authorship); Christian Examiner, Boston, April, 1850 (by G. S. Hillard); Methodist Quarterly, New York (by C. C. Felton); L'Opinion Publique, Paris, which had five articles in 1851 (by Count Adolphe de Circourt); London Spectator, Examiner, Literary Gazette, and Gentleman's Magazine, 1850; Journal des Debats, 1852 (by Philarete Chasles, who also paid a tribute to the work in his Voyages d'un Critique en Espagne, 1868); Blatter fur Literarische Unterhaltung, 1853 (by Ferdinand Wolf). Private letters also flowed in, of course, and some of these are of a character suitable to be introduced here. A deli
E. Everett (search for this): chapter 12
the lighter literature, as far as I see it, of poetry or belles-lettres . . . . You will, I hope, be pleased to learn that Lord Mahon has proposed your name as an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. You will be united in this with Everett, Prescott, and Bancroft. Lord Mahon, as President of the Society, said at its annual meeting, April 23, 1850: It is also with great pleasure that I find another gentleman from the United States, the author of the excellent History of Spanish Literature, augmenting the list of our honorary members. Five years ago we had not one from that country. At present we have four, namely, Mr. Everett, Mr. Bancroft, Mr. Prescott, and Mr. Ticknor,—an accession of talent and high character of which any society might justly be proud. After reading the book Lord Mahon had opened a correspondence with Mr. Ticknor, whom he had not previously known. Lord Mahon did this without the least suggestion of mine, from being pleased with your book, but I
Joseph Green Cogswell (search for this): chapter 12
Irving, who had just accepted the post of Minister from the United States to Spain, and with whom, it had been hoped, Mr. Cogswell would go as Secretary of Legation:— To Washington Irving, Esq., New York. Boston, March 31, 1842. my dear it, you may be sure that I am just as thankful for your kindness as if I did. I am much disappointed that my friend Mr. Cogswell has refused the appointment of Secretary of Legation at Madrid; preferring to remain in New York, as librarian of a great library just about to be established there. Mr. Cogswell remained, at the request of Mr. John Jacob Astor, to organize the library he had promised to found, which was not, however, established for several years. Who will be his successor I do pon; but he was never very active; he is now growing old, and his knowledge of books and bibliography is not at all like Cogswell's. I must, therefore, rely much upon your advice, and shall be very glad to be put in communication with Don Fermin Gonz
J. Lothrop Motley (search for this): chapter 12
growth of his Spanish Library. manuscript of the work submitted to Mr. Prescott. publication, in New York and London, in 1849. reviews, etc. letters from J. L. Motley, H. Hallam, and Tieck. Third and fourth editions. During all the years since his return from Europe, Mr. Ticknor had been steadily occupied with the prepar A delightful letter from Washington Irving has already been published in his Memoirs, which deprives us of the pleasure of producing it here. From J. Lothrop Motley to G. Ticknor. Chestnut Street, Boston, December 29, 1849. My dear Sir,—At the risk of appearing somewhat impolite, I have delayed expressing my thanks tescott, no one will have an excuse for ignorance. Begging you to excuse this slight expression of the merits of your work, I remain Very sincerely yours, J. L. Motley. From Henry Hallam, Esq. Wilton Crescent, London, January 10, 1850. My dear Mr. Ticknor,—The American mail went so soon after my receipt of your very o
John Pickering (search for this): chapter 12
tern world. . . . . I work away constantly at my History of Spanish Literature, after which you kindly inquire. It is now approaching 1700, after which there is not much, as you well know. . . . . Your friends here are all well, except Mr. Pickering, whose strength is much broken down by complaints in the organs of digestion. Prescott gets on well with his Conquest of Peru, and will then take up Philip II. He desires to be kindly remembered to you, and so does Mr. Pickering, whom I sawMr. Pickering, whom I saw yesterday, and so would your other friends if they knew me to be writing, for we all remember you with a very sincere and lively interest. Yours always faithfully, Geo. Ticknor. Do you know of old Spanish books anywhere to be obtained in Germany or elsewhere? . . . . Mr. Prescott was, naturally, the confidant of his friend during the whole progress of the work, from its inception to its publication; and when the manuscript of it was complete, it was submitted to his examination a
Charles Lyell (search for this): chapter 12
When I have done. In April, 1848, he calls it a task I cannot find it in my heart to hurry, so agreeable is it to me. Mr. Samuel Rogers, the English poet, when Mr. Ticknor's book was published and a copy of it lay on his table, said to Sir Charles Lyell, in allusion to it, I am told it has been the work of his life. How these Bostonians do work! His love of exactness, of thoroughness, of finding the nearest possible approach to absolute truth, was a very prevailing element in his charhere is a reference to one element in Mr. Ticknor's plan which guided him in the composition of his whole work. It is thus expressed in notes to two friends, which accompanied presentation copies of the book when they were distributed. To Sir Charles Lyell he says:— You know our reading public in the United States, how large it is, as well as how craving and increasing; so that you will be less surprised than others, that I have prepared my book as much for general readers as for scholars
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