Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18: Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January, 1839, to March, 1839.—Age, 28. (search)
und here attached friends; I have been familiar with poets and statesmen, with judges and men of fashion, with lawyers and writers,—and some of all these I claim as loved friends.
I seem to have almost lost the capacity for further enjoyment in my travels, so much have I had in England.
For all this I trust I am duly grateful.
You will hear from me next in Paris; perhaps in Rome.
As ever, affectionately yours, Charles Sumner.
March 21, 1839.
P. S. The coach will soon take me to Canterbury; then Dover and Paris.
To Lord Morpeth. ship hotel, Dover, March 22, 1839.
my dear Morpeth,—I must send you one more arrow — no Parthian shaft—before I quit dear old England.
I have to-day seen, perhaps for the last time, its green fields and one of its magnificent cathedrals.
I have always told you that England is the Italy of an American.
An Englishman sends his mind back, and finds nothing to rest upon before he gets to Rome; but we pause before your annals, and when in your
Dr. Lushington at Ockham Park, to T. Baring at Norman Court, to the Earl of Stanhope at Chevening, to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Addington, and to the Laboucheres at Stoke Park.
He met Macaulay several times, as at Lord Belper's, the Duke of Arns, where I sat for some time; visited Westminster Abbey again; dined with Lord Hatherton, where were the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Van de Weyer, Duke and Duchess of Argyll, etc.
July 1. Breakfast at Lord Hatherton's, where we Lords Granville, Derby, Lyndhurst, Brougham, Dufferin, Argyll, the Bishops of London and Oxford, and the Archbishop of Canterbury; went late to a party at Stafford House.
July 11. Invited by the Reform Club as honorary member; already invited alscaulay took me in his carriage fourteen miles as far as Bromley, where I took a dog-cart and drove to the Archbishop of Canterbury at Addington; in the afternoon walked with the Archbishop in the Park.
July 30. At noon returned to London.
Sat for
as stated in the inscription above quoted, that Mr. Colburn was educated by his genius.
It may be proper to add, however, that he was graduated at Harvard College in 1820.
His private character was most exemplary.
A writer, about the time of his decease, remarked of him justly, that his study through life seemed to be to do good.
On Locust Avenue a handsome sarcophagus shows the familiar and ancient name of Cheever.
The inscription reads thus:--
Bartholomew Cheever was born in Canterbury, County of Kent, England, in 1607; came to America 1637; died in 1693, aged 86.
Mason.
Howard.
Whitney and Cooke.
Warren Colburn.
Pilgrim Father, one of a handful God hath multiplied into a nation!
Richard, Bartholomew, Daniel, William Downs, Eleanor and Elizabeth, who now likewise rest from their labors, were of the generations who have risen up to bless thy name.
Caleb Davis was born in Woodstock, Conn., in 1739, was educated a merchant, resided in Boston; died July 6
, earnest but hazy, is seen in his Mater (25 September, 1908); his socio-scientific approach is measured in To-Morrow (31 October, 1913); his imaginative breadth and picturesque enthusiasm are evident in any one of his masques and pageants, The Canterbury pilgrims (Gloucester, Mass., 3 August, 1909), Sanctuary (12 September, 1913), Saint Louis (St. Louis, 28 May, 1914), and Caliban (New York, 25 May, 1916). But all told, MacKaye has not reached the ideal he emphasizes in his essays on the theatrbly about phenomena, which psychical specialists on either side the ocean have lately in many instances more lucidly explained.
Only five miles from the place where Mrs. Eddy lived from her fifteenth to her twenty-second year, the Shakers at Canterbury were still under the spell of their aggressive leader, Ann Lee, who had died some time before, but of whom her followers still spoke as Mother, the divine spiritual intuition representing the Mother in Deity, the type of God's Motherhood, the f
umboldt, Lafayette, and De Pradt the same evening, and who would have enjoyed it prodigiously.
But the first house at which I dined in England was Lord Holland's, where I met Tierney, Mackintosh, and some other of the leading Whigs, to whom I told it amidst great laughter.
Two or three times afterwards, when I met Sir James Mackintosh, he spoke of Talleyrand, and always called him le petit moyen.
Journal.
On the 18th of January, 1819, I came to London [from Ramsgate], by the way of Canterbury, getting thus a view of the agricultural prospects in the county of Kent, and struck for the third time with the bustle which, from so far, announces the traveller's approach to the largest and most active capital in Europe. . . . .
I went to see the kind and respectable Sir Joseph Banks several times, and renewed my acquaintance with the Marquess of Lansdowne, passed a night with my excellent friend Mr. Vaughan, etc. . . . . I found here, too, Count Funchal,. . . . and was very glad to
unions is numerous enough,—the more likely is the main general purpose to be carried.
The most formidable political combination of our times was, I suppose, the Tugend-Bund of 1808, etc., because it consisted of an immense number of small societies, scattered all over Germany, but little connected with each other except by their one great object, and really knowing little about each other's operations and mode of proceeding.
Now, if I understand the matter, you have in the Province of Canterbury,—embracing, to be sure, a large part of England,—above a thousand parishes, hamlets, etc., where money will not buy the means of intoxication.
It is a great thing, and it has been brought about without legislation.
On the other hand, we are attempting to compel the whole million and more of our people in Massachusetts, by the most stringent legislation, to do the same thing,—i. e. to stop the sale of all intoxicating liquors.
But no people, and especially no people living under such
nce of Wales to meet him at dinner; I gave him an evening party and a dinner; Mr. Smalley, the correspondent of the New York Tribune, invited him to breakfast, and Mr. Russell Young, of the New York Herald, to dinner; the Reform Club and the United Service Club gave him dinners, at the last of which the Duke of Cambridge, the Commander-in-Chief of the British army, presided; and there were innumerable parties, afternoon and evening, made in his honor.
The Duke of Argyll, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mrs. Hicks-Lord, of New York, the Marquis of Hertford—all entertained him; and everybody of any consequence in London called on him. The Provost of Eton invited him to lunch, the University of Oxford offered him a degree; and the City of London presented him with its freedom.
Early in July he visited Belgium, and afterward passed up the Rhine to Switzerland and Northern Italy.
At Brussels, Frankfort, Cologne, Geneva, and Berne he was the object of public or official courtesies.
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ng and practising these; shewing the danger of trusting to any other expedients for obtaining the favour of God, and the blessedness of heaven, without personal holiness and obedience.
A method of preaching not improper for convincing, converting, and edifying the hearers, especially when enforced by a suitable practice.
(Memoir, p. XIII.)
In 1747, Dr. Benson printed a volume of Sermons on several important Subjects.
A letter which he received from Dr. Herring, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, in acknowledgment of a presentation copy, accompanied with congratulations on his recent elevation to the primacy, has been preserved, and merits insertion, as a model of that liberal and truly Christian spirit which we could wish to find in all stations, and more especially in one of such high dignity and extensive influence.
Reverend Sir,—I cannot satisfy myself with having sent a cold and common answer of thanks for your volume of most excellent and useful sermons.
I do it in thi
t learning, and deservedly high reputation as a teacher.
Under this gentleman's instructions, at Gloucester, and afterwards at Tewkesbury, many of those were trained who in the succeeding age occupied the most eminent stations in our churches, and two at least of the brightest lights of the establishment received the greater part of the accomplishments which fitted them to adorn and do honour to the elevated stations to which they were afterwards raised.
Seeker, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and Butler, better known to later times as the author of the celebrated treatise on the Analogy of Natural and Revealed Religion, than by the bishopric of Durham, to which his talents and merit alone elevated him, were both fellow-students with Chandler in this humble seminary.
The three companions were at that period nearly on a par in condition and expectations, as well as in abilities; and though the very different course which they pursued through life permitted two of them to rise t
of A. B. in 1623, and his master's degree in 1626.
In the ship Hercules, which sailed from Sandwich, there came with Mr. Witherell his wife, three children, and a servant.
Savage adds that, after preaching in Duxbury, he became the minister of the second parish of Scituate in 1645, that several children were born to him in this country, and that he died April 9, 1684.
A recent genealogical note in the Boston Evening Transcript gives his age as twenty-five in 1627, when he married in Canterbury, Eng., Mary Fisher.
That he was for several years the schoolmaster of Charlestown appears from the following:—
11: 12 mo. 1636. Mr. Wetherell was granted a House plott with his cellar, selling his other house and part of his ground.
12: 12 mo. 1637.
About Mr. Wetherell it was referred to Mr. Greene and Mr. Lerned to settle his wages for the Yeare past in pt and pt to come & they chose Mr. Ralph Sprague for a third.
28: X mo. 1638.
John Stratton was admitted a townsman & has libert
