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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
ics because there is nothing else hereabouts to send you, except a little orthodoxy from the village church, or a little of the polufloi/sboio qala/sshs from the beach before us. We have had Mrs. Norton and some of her children staying with us, and expect them again. Gray, too, has been here, the Everetts, Prescotts, and so on. We have not been alone since the first few days after we came down, and are not likely to be as long as we stay. To Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., London. Boston, May 15, 1849. dear Lyell,--As we are decidedly imitating your émeutes in Europe, I send you two or three newspapers extra, of all complexions, that you may see how we get on. This refers to the Astor Place riots in New York, when Mr. Macready was attacked by a mob, in consequence of the course taken by Mr. Edwin Forrest, who attempted to put down the English actor. . . . . One or two moral reflections I must make. The people here about twelve years ago first began to feel that a mob impaired