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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
bookseller who had become the agent of the Library, and he, personally, purchased some hundreds of volumes for its shelves. But, after having come to a full understanding with Mr. Bates, he hastened to the Continent, and stopped first at Brussels, once an important book-mart, but not at this time of consequence enough, in this respect, for establishing an agency. In a letter to Mr. Everett he gives an account of some of these earlier experiences. To Hon. E. Everett. Brussels, July 30, 1856, and Bonn, August 4. my dear Everett,—I was able to write you only once from London, and then a very short and unsatisfactory note . . . . . With Mr. Bates everything was done in the promptest and easiest manner; —quiet, after his fashion, and as decisive as quiet. In a letter written after Mr. Bates's death, Mr. Ticknor says of him: To me he was a peculiar man. I knew him familiarly several years when we were both young; and if, after he established himself in Europe, I saw him ra
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
hn Bull is no doubt dissatisfied, and doubtful of the future. He thinks we are ill disposed towards him, that there is no use in making more concessions, and that, as we are growing stronger and more formidable, it is as well to meet the trial soon, as later. Those in power, however, seem to me to wish to put it off as long as they can. There were complaints about enlistments in the United States during the Crimean War. See ante, p. 295. . . . . To Hon. Edward Everett. Brussels, July 30, 1856. . . . . I began this letter at its date, at Brussels, but I was much crowded with work then, and now I finish it at Bonn. Parts of this letter were given in the preceding chapter. . . . . Welcker is here still fresh and active, and remembering you with great kindness. I find Brandes too, but nobody else surviving of the old time; Niebuhr, Schlegel, and the rest are all gone. Old, Master Shallow, old, I feel it. I felt it, too, in London, though the survivors there were numerous