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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
y in Brazil.--return to Cambridge. lectures in Boston and New York. summer at Nahant. letter to Professor Peirce on the Survey of Boston Harbor. death of his moth ago I was thinking how I should employ my summer. I foresaw that in going to Nahant I should not find the rest I need after all the fatigue of the two last years, y 7, 1866. dear mother,—When you receive this letter we shall be, I hope, at Nahant, where our children and grandchildren are waiting for us. To-morrow we shall sts a tender spot. . . . The summer of 1867 was passed very tranquilly at his Nahant laboratory, in that quiet work with his specimens and his microscope which pleaof public utility. To Professor Peirce, Superintendent of the Coast Survey. Nahant, September 11, 1867. dear Sir,—Far from considering your request a tax upon heir near neighborhood and constant personal intercourse, both at Cambridge and Nahant, made letters rare between them. Friends who see each other so often are infre
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 22: 1868-1871: Aet. 61-64. (search)
anence of the ocean trough, on the margin of which these more recent beds have been formed. I am well aware that in a comparatively recent period, portions of Canada and the United States, which now stand six or seven hundred feet above the level of the sea, have been under water; but this has not changed the configuration of the continent, if we admit that the latter is in reality circumscribed by the two hundred fathom curve of depth. The summer was passed in his beloved laboratory at Nahant (as it proved, the last he ever spent there), where he was still continuing the preparation of his work on sharks and skates. At the close of the summer, he interrupted this occupation for one to which he brought not only the reverence of a disciple, but a life-long debt of personal gratitude and affection. He had been entreated to deliver the address at the Humboldt Centennial Celebration (September 15, 1869), organized under the auspices of the Boston Society of Natural History. He had
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 25: 1872-1873: Aet. 65-66. (search)
Return to Cambridge. summer school proposed. interest of Agassiz. gift of Mr. Anderson. prospectus of Penikese school. difficulties. opening of school. summer work. close of school. last course of lectures at Museum. lecture before board of Agriculture. illness. death. place of Burial. In October, 1872, Agassiz returned to Cambridge. To arrange the collections he had brought back, to write a report of his journey and its results, to pass the next summer quietly at his Nahant laboratory, continuing his work on the Sharks and Skates, for which he had brought home new and valuable material, seemed the natural sequence of his year of travel. But he found a new scheme of education on foot; one for which he had himself given the first impulse, but which some of his younger friends had carefully considered and discussed in his absence, being confident that with his help it might be accomplished. The plan was to establish a summer school of natural history somewhere
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
lectures, 525; school for young ladies opened, 526, and success, 527; courses of lectures, 529; close, 530; Contributions to the Natural History of the United States projected, 533; concluded, 542, 568, 580; fiftieth birthday, 542; laboratory at Nahant, 548, 578. 581, 647, 674; invitation to Paris, 550, 552; refusal, and reasons, 551-554; receives cross of Legion of Honor, 552; dangerous state of collections, 554; an ideal museum, 555-559 Museum of Comparative Zoology founded, 560-564; visit tes, 565; additional grants, 569, 668, 776; first Bulletin, 569; growth, 680; new subscription, 668; new building, 668; object and scope, 668; new collections, 671; staff, 678; a birthday gift, 776; last lectures by Agassiz, 776. Nageli, 30. Nahant, laboratory at, 548, 678, 581, 647, 674. National Academy of Sciences founded, 569. Negroes, 500, 504, 591, 594, 600, 605, 612. Neuchatel, plans for, 190, 193, 199; accepts profesorship there, 202; first lecture, 206; founding of Natural
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, chapter 1 (search)
t Church, who made an address. Daniel Stone lived and died a bachelor. He was a very fine horseman, with an erect, military carriage. He was prominent in the Lancers. He was in the grain business with Robert Vinal for a number of years. He always wore a high silk hat. He was guardian for the Grover children on the death of his father, and received their share of the estate in trust. Thomas Jefferson Stone married Mary Rice, and they lived in Boston. They had two sons. One died at Nahant of typhoid fever, the other went West and disappeared. Both these brothers, Daniel and Thomas, though promising in youth, had a dreary old age, but found homes with relatives or friends. Lydia, the youngest daughter, who had lived and grown up in the home of her sister Mary, met there a young man who came to the house on business with Mr. Bonner,—Robert Vinal, of Scituate. They were married May 21, 1820, and their first home was in Boston. In 1824 they moved to Somerville and, accordin
Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Index (search)
1, 43, 56. Miller's River, 8, 59. Milton, Mass., 20. Mississippi River, 65, 67, 82. Mitchelson, Marshal-General, Edward, 53. Mobile, Ala., 68. Morse, Elisha, 54. Morse, Joanna, 54. Morse, Rev. Dr., 10. Mt. Auburn, 27. Mt. Holly, Vt., 55, 56. Munroe, —, 48. Munroe, Edwin, 17, 21. Munroe, Henry, 56. Myles, Rev., John, 53. Myles Standish and the Plymouth Explorers, 61. Mystic, No. 6, 14. Mystic Pumping Station, 60. Mystic River, 51, 71. Mystic Valley Parkway, 50. Nahant, Mass., 13. Napoleon, 69, 77. Nathan Tufts Park, 51. National Geographic Society, 62. Naval School Hospital, 40. New Bridge, 9. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 62. New England Primer, 78. New Ipswich, N. H., 48. New Orleans, La., 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 80, 81, 82. Newton Centre, Mass., 58. Newton, Joanna, 45. Newton, Mass., 22. Nineteenth Army Corps, 65. Nineteenth Army Corps, History of the, 64. Ninetieth Pennsylvania, 32. Noble, Mary Ann, 10. North Star, T
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 15: Academic life in Cambridge (search)
ntly increase. His mother dies suddenly, and he sits all night alone by her dead body, a sense of peace comes over him, as if there had been no shock or jar in nature, but a harmonious close to a long life. Later he gets tired of summer rest at Nahant, which he calls building up life with solid blocks of idleness; but when two days later he goes back to Cambridge to resume his duties, he records: I felt my neck bow and the pressure of the yoke. Soon after he says: I find no time to write. I rtunities of foreigners for help here and help there—fret the day and consume it. He often records having half a dozen men to dine with him; he goes to the theatre, to lectures, concerts, and balls, has no repose, and perhaps, as we have seen at Nahant, would not really enjoy it. It was under these conditions, however, that the Golden Legend came into the world in November, 1851; and it was not until September 12, 1854, that its author was finally separated from the University. He was before t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 17: resignation of Professorship—to death of Mrs. Longfellow (search)
vantage, permit me to express to you my grateful thanks for the confidence you have reposed in me, and the many marks of kindness and consideration which I have received at your hands. With best wishes for the College and for yourselves, I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant Henry W. Longfellow, Smith Professor of French and Spanish, and Professor of Belles Lettres.Harvard College Papers [Ms.], 2d ser. XXI. 249. Cambridge, August 23, 1854. [to President Walker.] Nahant, Aug. 23, 1854. my dear Sir,—I inclose you the Letter of resignation we were speaking of yesterday. I have made it short, as better suited to College Records; and have said nothing of the regret, which I naturally feel on leaving you, for it hardly seems to me that I am leaving you; and little of my grateful acknowledgments; for these I hope always to show, by remaining the faithful friend and ally of the College. I beg you to make my official farewells to the members of the Faculty
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 21: the Loftier strain: Christus (search)
d to have so dominated his literary life as the Christus, and it shows his sensitive reticence that the portion of it which was first published, The Golden Legend (1851), gave to the reader no suggestion of its being, as we now know that it was, but a portion of a larger design. Various things came in the way, and before The Divine Tragedy appeared (1871) he had written of it, I never had so many doubts and hesitations about any book as about this. On September 11 in that year he wrote in Nahant, Begin to pack. I wish it were over and I in Cambridge. I am impatient to send The Divine Tragedy to the printers. On the 18th of October he wrote: The delays of printers are a great worry to authors; on the 25th, Get the last proof sheet of The Divine Tragedy; on the 30th, Read over proofs of the Interludes and Finale, and am doubtful and perplexed; on November 15, All the last week, perplexed and busy with final correction of The Tragedy. It was published on December 12, and he writ
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
, Grenville, 23. Menzel, Charles Adolphus, his History of German Literature, mentioned, 112. Mexico, 263. Middleton, Thomas, 188. Milton, John, 268. Mittermaier, Karl J. A., 112. Moliere, Jean B. P. de, 121,176. Montalvan, John P. de, 188. Monti, Prof., Luigi, 215. Moore, Thomas, 8, 62. More, Hannah, 15, 121. Morris, William, 6. Morton, Eng., 219. Motley, John L., 287. Mt. Vernon, position similar to Craigie House, 116. Mullins, Priscilla, 146. Mussey, Dr., 83. Nahant, Mass., 187, 205, 244. Naples, 53, 223. New England, 14, 36, 47, 78, 116, 131, 199; Longfellow's plan of sketches about, 51; traditions of, 130; fugitive slave agitation in, 186. New England Magazine, 67 and note, 68, 69 note. New York City, 23, 45, 69, 70, 140, 149, 164, 188, 219. New York, 149. New York University, 6. New York Independent, the, 5 note. New York Review, the, 140. Newburyport, Mass., 102. Ney, Marshal, 47. Niagara, 264. Niccolini, 54. Nichols, Rev.
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