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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
el it. The Irish population among us is very large, and has already two or three times made movements to help their kinsfolk at home to break up their union with your island. But thus far they have found little or no sympathy among the rest of our population; the Anglo-Saxon part, I mean. Now, however, the tide is turning. Meagher has been lecturing in New York to immense audiences, and, since I began this letter, I see by the newspaper that Choate, the leading Whig lawyer in New England, Seaver, our Boston Whig Mayor, and many others, who six months ago would have dreamed of no such thing, have sent him a complimentary invitation to come and lecture here. He will of course come, and he will produce not a little effect, even in this conservative town. But the real danger is not yet; that will come when the troubles in Europe come. . . . . I dare say you will smile at the results to which I come, and I am willing to believe that little of what I picture within the range of possi
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
of allowing books to circulate freely, was not removed by many subsequent conversations, nor were the hopes of either of the gentlemen, with regard to the establishment of a great library, raised even when, in the early part of 1852, the mayor, Mr. Seaver, recommended that steps be taken for such an object, and the Common Council, presided over by Mr. James Lawrence, proposed that a board of trustees for such an institution should be appointed. When, therefore, both Mr. Everett and Mr. Ticknorheir faint hopes, it came in consequence of the effect produced on his mind by this report,—drawn up by Mr. Ticknor and Mr. Everett,—because he saw the importance to his native town of such a library as is there recommended. In his letter to Mr. Seaver, October 1, 1852, Mr. Bates says, he is impressed with the importance to rising and future generations of such a library as is recommended. Here, then, was the founding of a library, a gift of $50,000, with the condition annexed, that the city
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
el, Friedrich von, I. 122, 123, 127. Schlosser, 11. 100. Schultze, Dr., I. 70, 73 note, 80, 81 and note, 82, 121. Schurtz, Hofrath, I. 112. Schwabe, Dr., 1 58. Scilla, Prince, 1. 212, 219. Sclopis, Count, 11 42 and note. Scott, Anne, 1. 283. Scott, General, Winfield, II. 435, 443, 444. Scott, Sir, Walter, 1. 24, 275, 276, 280, 281, 283, 284, 430, II. 160, 161, 175, 189, 360; portrait of, I. 388, 389, 407. Scott, Sophia, I. 281, 283, 284. Scott, Walter, Jr., I. 284. Seaver, Mr., Mayor of Boston, II. 303. Secession, II. 430, 442, 446. Sedgwick, Professor, I. 271, 419, 420 note, 421, II. 156, 157, 176, 177, 178, 179. Segovia, visits, T. 218; Bishop of, 218. Senior, Nassau William, I. 407, 412 and note, 451, 1I. 145, 147, 151, 178, .325, 362, 363, 364, 366, 369, 371, 375, 380, 385. Senonnes, Viscount de, I. 255, 2-2, 263. Sermoneta. Duca di, II. 346 and note, 347, 348. Servia, life in, I. 478. Seville, I. 237-241; Alcazar, 238, 240; Cathedral,