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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
here he kept up a correspondence with some old friends, and sighed to be in Cambridge, studying law and reading Plautus. His year at Utica ended, Patten obtained a situation as private tutor, through the aid of President Walker of Harvard University, who had always been his friend. His pupil, George Appleton, a youth of eighteen, was a grandson of William Appleton of Boston, and son (by a former marriage) of Mrs. Arnold, herself a daughter of George W. Lyman. Her residence was at Montgomery, Georgia, twelve miles from Savannah, on the beautiful Vernon River. Thither Patten went for a year, in the autumn of 1859. He passed much leisure time in shooting the abundant small game, his pupil being extremely fond of field sports. For a while the genial tutor also was quite enamored of this pursuit (though he got surfeited in due time) and enthusiastically wrote: When you ride horseback or row, you are likely to be thinking about ordinary cares all the time, —post equitem sedet atra