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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
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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 3: community life (search)
rs. The simplicity of life and the insufficiency of the charges at Brook Farm are well indicated by a letter from George W. Curtis and his brother Burrill, belonging to a well-to-do New York family, written in a beautiful hand to Dana in March, 18 an application which we are inclined to think a good deal of from two Transcendental brothers, James Burrill and George William Curtis, natives of Providence, I suppose, but now apparently residents in New York. They are young men, eighteen and twThe Epic of Brook Farm ; Brook Farm etc., by Lindsay Swift, p. 171. The Macmillan Company, published , New York. George William Curtis and his brother; Margaret Fuller; the Macdaniel family; John S. Dwight; J. T. Codman; Albert Brisbane; and a numblse Dana seems to have been his principal assistant and understudy. It was issued both in Boston and New York, and while Curtis, Cranch, Lowell, Dwight, Osborne Macdaniel, and many others, were regular or occasional writers, Dana was evidently the p
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 9: Dana's influence in the tribune (search)
nden, Hale, Sunnier, Henry Wilson, and all the other rising men of the Republican party. A warm and devoted friendship grew up between them, with Dana as well as with Greeley. The paper was their chief support, as well as their chief means of reaching their constituents through a friendly interpretation. Under Dana's special guidance it had also come to be the leading literary journal of the country. Its columns were filled with criticisms of the latest books by Ripley, Hildreth, George William Curtis, and other rising men, and this made it welcome to the preachers, school-masters, and professional men throughout the North. Thus the advanced thought of the day on every subject was widely disseminated. On the other hand, the leading Southern men, and the leading Democrats from both sections, were kept under constant observation and criticism. Such men as Davis, Toombs, Benjamin, Hammond, Chesnut, Hunter, Mason, Slidell, Douglas, and Breckenridge were kept constantly before the
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 10: last days with the tribune (search)
s growl over it!. .. [Fordyce] Barker is getting up in his practice, and must be a rich man very soon. When I see him trooping about with his two roan horses, I get vexed at you because you aren't a doctor, too. That was apparently what nature laid you out for, but you've been and stopped her. The next year, after wondering how he ever found time to write at all, he wrote a long letter about the Cyclopaedia, the book of poetry, and also about their common friends, Bayard Taylor, George William Curtis, Count Gurowski, Pike, and Parke Godwin, winding up with thanks for the little moral lecture Huntington, his correspondent, had given him on the Cyclopaedia, which he suggested was not needed, because he probably knew its faults and the difficulties attending its composition and publication better than any one else. With the first shot directed against the flag at Fort Sumter, Dana came out for war to the death. The Tribune also buckled on its armor and warned traitors of their d
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 27: administration of President Hayes begins a new era (search)
son's inaugural address Condemns his acceptance of Cape May cottage good word for office-seekers and trusts commends Cleveland's action against Chicago strike Opposes his third candidacy the noble controversies of politics death of George William Curtis Samuel J. Randall Benjamin F. Butler sketches of Beach and Bennett Early in the presidential term of Rutherford B. Hayes, a movement was started at Boston to place his portrait in Memorial Hall, with those of John Adams and John Quis an enemy went down before him, or as a fellow-soldier in the battle of life fell by the way, he never failed to pay his tribute of affection or respect. In such composition he was peculiarly gifted. A single paragraph on the death of George William Curtis, in 1892, a dear friend and associate of Brook Farm and the Tribune, who had been estranged from him for years, is at once a touching example of his literary skill and of his generosity. It is here inserted: George Curtis lacked on
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
ier, 428, 433, 434, 438, 441, 442, 449. Cresswell, Postmaster--General, 433. Crittenden, General, 98, 180, 254, 259, 262, 265, 328. Croats of Jellachich, 74. Crocker, Deacon, James, 18. Crocker, General, 223, 246. Cromwell, Oliver, 474. Crook, General, 348, Cuba, 114, 125, 131, 133, 153, 180, 401, 402,416,420, 497-499. Cullom, Senator, 190. Cumberland, Army of the, 233, 254, 257, 267, 275, 276, 282, 283, 297. Cumberland Gap, 299, 301. Cumberland Mountains, 272. Curtis, George W., 36, 39, 45, 51, 153, 177, 482. Curtis, James B., 36, 39. Custer, General, 366. D. Dalton, Georgia, 257. Dana family, 1, 2; Paul, 357, 496; the poet, 25, 26; Zoe, 362. Danubian provinces, 85. Danville Railroad, 330. Davis, Jefferson, 98, 153, 271, 352, 356, 359-361, 364, 365,389,401, 472, 473. Davis, General Jefferson--C., 262-264. Dayton, William L., 98. Deer Creek Bayou, 207. De Golyer scheme, 450. Denison, Ann, 1, 2, 3. Denison, David, 3. Denison, Governor