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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
therefore gave up his office, and turned his thoughts to plans of study and travel which should prepare him for the greater advantages of Europe. This was a conclusion not suddenly or unadvisedly formed, nor without the approval of his father, upon due consideration of the reasons which influenced his son in thus changing his course of life. His motives for the step he took, and his hopes and views as to the future, may be learned from the following extract from a letter to his friend Mr. Haven, a young lawyer of Portsmouth, N. H., written in July, 1814:— My plan, so far as I have one, is to employ the next nine months in visiting the different parts of this country, and in reading those books and conversing with those persons, from whom I can learn in what particular parts of the countries I mean to visit I can most easily compass my objects. The whole tour in Europe I consider a sacrifice of enjoyment to improvement. I value it only in proportion to the great means and in
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
lness in the path he had chosen. He sailed in the Liverpool packet, on the 16th of April, 1815. He had the happiness of the companionship of four of his most valued and intimate friends,—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Perkins, Mr. Edward Everett, and Mr. Haven, of Portsmouth, N. H. Among other passengers were two young sons of Mr. John Quincy Adams, on their way to join their father, then United States Minister at St. Petersburg. Mr. Ticknor wrote many pages during his voyage to his father and mot went over a dyke, and some portions of it were on the coast, where the broad ocean leans against the land. From Rotterdam, they went to the Hague, Leyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, and Utrecht, where he parted from Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, and Mr. and Miss Haven; and with Mr. Everett and young Perkins, To be placed at school in Gottingen. went on his way to Gottingen. Of this parting, he says: It was not, indeed, like the bitterness of leaving home, but it was all else, and, indeed, in the sense o
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
h Mason, a distinguished lawyer of that city, and was invited to tea. Mr. Mason asked him endless questions, and he grew so tired and vexed that, as he left the house, he said to himself that he would never pass through that man's door again. The next day, he met Mr. Mason at dinner at Mr. Webster's, when the style of address was quite changed, and he never after regretted knowing Mr. Mason. During Mr. Ticknor's absence in Europe, his journal was for a time in the hands of his friend, Mr. N. A. Haven, of Portsmouth. Mr. Mason insisted on seeing it. The passage above, comparing Baron Gagern to Mr. Mason in his style of questioning, met his eye. Years afterwards, when acquaintance had grown to friendship, Mr. Mason mentioned that he had read that passage, which drew forth a confession about the first call, and Mr. Mason replied that he always questioned young men so. for, the moment I entered the room, he came up to me and began to question me about my country,—its great men, etc., l
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
ed only by death. On his seventy-sixth birthday Mr. Ticknor made a memorandum which was preserved, and which may appropriately be introduced here. It is headed, Aug. 1, ‘67. Persons with whom I have lived in long friendship, and contains the names of sixteen early friends, and the dates of the commencement of each acquaintance. They are these: Curtis, C. P., from 1793; Everett, E., 1806; Everett, A. H., 1806; Prescott, W. H., 1808; Webster, D., 1808, but also slightly 1802, 1805, 1807; Haven, N. A., 1808; Daveis, C. S., 1809; Gardiner, R. H., 1812; Story, J., 1815; Allston, W., 1819. Others who survive, Curtis, T. B., from 1795; Thayer, S., 1805; Bigelow, J., 1808; Savage, J., 1809; Mason, W. P., 1809; Cogswell, J. G., 1810. Five of these gentlemen outlived him. In his old age he still had friends whom he had counted as such for sixty years, although he had outlived so many. With regard to two of those intimacies which colored and added interest to his life in the period now
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
. As soon as he had a house of his own, he enjoyed the ability it gave him to welcome his friends from distant places, and during the winter of 1821-22, Daveis, Haven, and Cogswell were at different times his guests. These visits did not, however, disturb the steady course of his industrious life, and he writes in February: I has now become a point of interest in the literary history of the country, from its association with the studies of his distinguished son. They were the guests of Mr. Haven at Portsmouth, and of Mr. Daveis at Portland, both of whom, surrounded by young families, were diligently engaged in the practice of the law; but both retained t accounts, better than either. . . . The following extract shows his immediate appreciation of one of the early products of American literature:— To N. A. Haven, Portsmouth. February, 1823. . . . . I hope you will have seen Tudor's book The Life of James Otis, by William Tudor. Boston, 1823. before you get this.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 18: (search)
hat any account of his life from 1819 to 1830 must include a narrative of his exertions for that end. In a letter to Mr. Haven, written in 1825, he gives a sketch of the condition of the College, and of the efforts to improve it, beginning in 1821. Mr. Haven's forebodings about the College were often expressed to Mr. Ticknor. On the 15th of September, 1821, he wrote: I have frequently had occasion to express an opinion, which I have formed after some inquiry,—and, I need not add, with g But the College has watchful enemies, and nothing can save her from their grasp but a spotless reputation. To N. A. Haven. October 26, 1825. I take my earliest leisure to give you the account you desire to have, of the origin and manageons had weight, and were carefully considered by the gentlemen before whom he laid them. He continues his narrative to Mr. Haven as follows:— A list of above twenty questions was prepared by the contributions of all present, each one proposing
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
mination of the military Academy. death of N. A. Haven.- Webster's Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson. memoir of Mr. Haven. visit to Washington. In 1823 Mr. Ticknor was chosen a Trustee of the Bos of the illness and death of his friend, Mr. N. A. Haven, of Portsmouth. A close sympathy in tastendship unusual closeness and intimacy. . Mr. Haven died on the 3d of June, and on the 9th Mr. Txpressing to you my deep sorrow at the loss of Haven. It pursues me wherever I go. I did not think will reach so far in their consequences. Mr. Haven's attachment to Mr. Ticknor is expressed in r, written at Amsterdam, July 24, 1815, when Mr. Haven was twenty-five and Mr. Ticknor twenty-four praise him. The relatives and friends of Mr. Haven, by whose early death —at the age of thirty-ns, and especially of his sketch of his friend Haven:— To C. S. Daveis, Portland. Boston, good deal troubled me, has been my Memoir of Haven. . . . . I have written a plain and simple mem[1 more...]<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
35. Hanover, visits, 77. Harcourt, Rev., William Vernon, 424, 435, 436, 437. Hardenberg, Prince, 485. Harness, Rev., William, 411, 416 note. Harper, General, Robert, 351 Harrison, George, 193 note. Hartford Convention, 12-14. Hartford, visits, 14. Harvard College, G. T. nominated to a Professorship in, 116; accepts, 120; enters on Professorship, 319-326; attempted reforms in, 353-369, 379, 399-401. Hatfield. See Salisbury. Hatton, visits, 52. Haven, Miss, 68. Haven, N. A., 123 note, 316 note, 336, 337; letters to, 23, 49, 68, 338, 354, 359; letter from, 354 note, 377 note; death of, 377; memoir of, 377, 380. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 389. Hayne, Colonel Robert Y., 351. Hazlitt, William, 293, 294. Heber, Richard, 264, 267. Heeren, Professor, 80. Heidelberg, visits, 124. Hercolani, Prince, 166, 183. Herder, Baron von, 478. Herman, Professor, 108, 112. Hertzberg, Countess, 467. Heyne, Professor, 95, 105, 106. Higginson, Barbara. See Perkins, Mrs