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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10 : (search)
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21 : (search)
Chapter 21:
Letters, 1859-61, to Sir C. Lyell, Hon. E. Everett, Sir E. Head, C. S. Daveis.
To Sir Charles Lyell. Boston, May 17, 1859.
My dear Lyell,—By the time this letter reaches London, I trust that you will be safely back in Harley Street, from the land of dikes and canals,—a strange country, which I visited once, and seemed to lead such a sort of amphibious existence, that I have never cared to go there again.
But it was in the month of July, and the waters pumped up by the windmills did not give out Sabean odors.
We feel very uncomfortable about the news we get from your side of the Atlantic . . . . But I had rather talk about the progress of civilization than its decay and death, which are, I conceive, the natural results of the prevalence of military governments.
So I will tell you about Agassiz and his affairs. . . . . The establishment
The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. is a grand one, and I take an interest in it, not from any k
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23 : (search)