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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12: (search)
o whom it was addressed; but which I think you and Don Domingo del Monte will read with pleasure, for the sake of the few words in which he speaks of Prescott and myself, and for the broad view he gives—after his grand, generalizing fashion—of the progress of culture in the United States. There have been a great many notices of my History, I understand, in England and this country, which I have not seen; but I have not heard of any of them that were unfavorable. In a letter from Mr. Abbott Lawrence, then our Minister to England, to Mr. S. A. Eliot, he says: I was present a few evenings since, when the Queen asked Mr. Macaulay what new book he could recommend for her reading. He replied that he would recommend Her Majesty to send for the History of Spanish literature, by an American, Mr. Ticknor of Boston. From Ludwig Tieck Potsdam, July 28, 1850. honored friend, Translated from the German.—What a happy time it was when we met almost every day in Dresden. I still look<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
would follow trade and capital to the metropolis, which was thus taking the lead. Still, nothing effectual was done. Among the persons with whom Mr. Ticknor had, of late years, most frequently talked of the matter, Dr. Channing was dead, Mr. Abbott Lawrence had become Minister to England, and Mr. Jonathan Phillips was growing too infirm to take part in public affairs. The subject, however, kept its hold on Mr. Ticknor's mind. His idea was that which he felt lay at the foundation of all ousometimes many copies of new and popular works are kept on hand for a time, and then sold, as the demand for them dies away. Omitting other details, now of no importance, the letter ends as follows:— Several years ago I proposed to Mr. Abbott Lawrence to move in favor of such a library in Boston; and, since that time, I have occasionally suggested it to other persons. In every case the idea has been well received; and the more I have thought of it and talked about it, the more I have
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
, 259, 323, 324, 325, 363, 366, 371, 380. La Place, Marquis de, I. 255. La Place, Marquis de, Jeune, II. 181. Lardner, Dr., Dionysius, I. 426 and note. Latour-Maubourg, Marquis de, II. 61. Latrobe, John H. B., II. 463. Lauderdale, Earl of, I. 264. Lausanne, visits, I. 152, 155, II. 35, 86. Laval, Montmorency, Duc Adrien de, I. 128, 137, 188, 189, 193, 194 note, 204 note, 209, 210, 212-214, 218, 258, 295, 309, 311; letters from, 303, 305; death of, 307 note. Lawrence, Hon., Abbott, II. 260 note, 800, 302. Lawrence, James, II 304. Lawrence, Mrs., James, II. 324, 847. Leake, Colonel, II. 155. Lebanon, Conn., Elisha Ticknor born there, I. 1. Lebanon, N. H., I. 4, 5. Lebrun, P. A. . II. 116, 181. Le Chevalier, J. B., I. 131. Le Clerc, General, I. 123. Le Fleming, Lady, I. 434. Legare, Hugh Swinton, I. 278 note, 450, 488, 489, II. 204 note, 436; letters to, 191 and note, 196, 197, 198, 207, 210, 211; death of, 212, 213 and note. Leghorn, vi