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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
here. To S. A. Eliot, London. Boston, August 7, 1821. . . . . Great noise and interest has been made here lately about a young man, Edheljertha, a Swede of about thirty, of much learning, who came out here perfectly authenticated to Mr. William Parsons, as a poor young man of respectable connections, and a thorough education, who was entitled to an estate in the West Indies, which was violently withheld from him by a Spaniard. His money failed him here; but he declined receiving any from Mr. Parsons until he should know something more about his claim; and undertook to earn his bread, first by working at the composition of acids, with a man who lives on the Neck, and afterwards, as that affected his health, in the Botanical Garden at Cambridge, where his botanical knowledge was soon found important. Cogswell took him into the library, to help make catalogue; but about this time he received an anonymous, threatening letter, which very much alarmed him, in his unprotected sta
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
ness of our character; but more, perhaps, from the great similarity of our institutions, which again arise from it and make us more strictly one people, with one common centre and capital, than any other equal amount of the population of the United States. I always look on this circumstance with great satisfaction, because I think the connection is for the benefit of both parties, and the improvement of the whole. To be sure, we take a great deal when we attract such men as Mr. Cabot, Judge Parsons, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Mason; but we are constantly sending out influences greater and more beneficial, I believe, than any other capital in the country; and influences, too, which we could never put forth, if we could not concentrate and combine such powers in the midst of us, and render them much more active and efficient than they could be scattered through the land in their native homes. We are all well, though little Nannie shows some feebleness at the approach of spring, which I
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
3; salons, 253. Parish, Daniel, 15, 16, 27. Parker, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, 9, 10 note, 11, 340. Parker, Mr., 146, 148. Parker, Mr., 407. Park Street, house in, 387-389. Parr, Dr., 50, 52, 53, 288, 289. Parry, Captain, 422. Parsons, Chief Justice, 396. Parsons, William, 331, 332. Pastoret, Count, 253, 255, 256. Pastoret, Countess, 255, 256. Patterson, Mr., 193 note. Peabody, Rev. W. O. B., 428 and note. Peel, Sir, Robert, 416, 417, 480. Pellico, Silvio, 450. Parsons, William, 331, 332. Pastoret, Count, 253, 255, 256. Pastoret, Countess, 255, 256. Patterson, Mr., 193 note. Peabody, Rev. W. O. B., 428 and note. Peel, Sir, Robert, 416, 417, 480. Pellico, Silvio, 450. Pepperell, 337, 385. Perkins, Colonel T. H., 328, 370. Perkins, James, 370. Perkins, Mrs. S. G., 13, 49, 68, 260, 328, 331. Perkins, S. G., 12, 13, 14, 49, 68. Perkins, S. H., 68 and note, 121. Peter, America Pinkney, 38. Peter, Britannia Wellington, 38. Peter, Columbia Washington, 38. Peter, Mrs. See Custis. Peter, Thomas, 38. Petrarch, letter on, 341-344. Philadelphia, visits, 15, 352. Phillips, Professor J., 422, 437 and note. Phillips, Thomas J., 443. Phillips, W