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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 78 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 50 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 50 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 20 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 18 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 16 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 16 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 14 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 12 0 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 12 0 Browse Search
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, C. P. Cranch. (search)
to have been a peculiarity of his temperament; for in 1875 George William Curtis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. Cranch a letter which began with O yeles. He had the good fortune to find a fellow-passenger in George William Curtis, and during the voyage of seven weeks, a life-long friendshhis rhythmic genius fell into the background. From Marseilles George W. Curtis proceeded to Egypt, where he wrote his well known book of Nilen 1863 he went to live on Staten Island in order to be near George William Curtis, who cared for him as Damon did for Pythias, and who served yet became him remarkably. He was interested to hear what George William Curtis thought about politics, and to find that it agreed closely University Club, at Boston; but the sketch of his life, by George William Curtis, was refused on the ground that he was an Emersonian. The the ground that he was an Emersonian. The same objection might have been raised against Lowell, or Curtis himself with equally good reason.
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Elizur Wright (search)
. If Clay had been elected, the history of the United States must have been different from what it has proved. How Elizur Wright supported his family during this long period of philanthropy will always be a mystery, but support them he did. He had no regular salary like Garrison, but, in an emergency, he could turn his hand to almost anything, and earn money by odd jobs. Fortunately, he had a wife who was not afraid of any kind of house-work. He purchased his clothes of a tailor named Curtis, who kept a sailors' clothing store on North Street, and his mode of living otherwise was not less economical. That his children suffered by their father's philanthropy must be admitted, but it is a general rule that the families of public benefactors also contribute largely to the general good. His eldest daughters inherited their father's intellect, and as they grew up cheerfully assisted him in various ways. When the Mexican war began there was great indignation over it in New Englan