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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
conversation, and the mornings passed with Mr. Webster, or in the Houses of Congress and the SupreIn another letter he says:— The dinner at Webster's was very agreeable, quite agreeable; thoughnly owing to the conciliatory tone taken by Mr. Webster, which has much quieted the popular feelings, besides, the uppermost subject here now. Mr. Webster made a bold and manly speech about it in onim about it. During this visit in Boston Mr. Webster one day sent a note to Mr. Ticknor asking hunited to give a semi-public dinner in his (Mr. Webster's) honor, Mr. Ticknor was induced to sit doashington would be anything but agreeable. Webster, too, has been here, and hurried off yesterda and in that case you have not missed reading Webster's letter to Hulsemann, the Austrian Charge, o am sending a parcel, I put into it a copy of Webster's late speeches in the State of New York. Yoquite private. A report has reached me that Mr. Webster may visit the British Provinces in his vaca[4 more...]
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
Chapter 14: Letters. death of Mr. Webster. Crimean War. letters to C. S. Daveis, E. Everett, Sir E. Head, King John of Saxony, Sir C. Lyell. to my eyes,—when I returned last evening from the funeral. The funeral of Mr. Webster, who had died on the 24th. Late in September Mr. Ticknor had visited him ateceived two notes from you, and sundry packets of letters, etc., relating to Mr. Webster; but I have thought it better not to trouble you with answers. Everything, Mr. Everett, Mr. C. C. Felton, Mr. G. T. Curtis, and Mr. Ticknor were, by Mr. Webster's will, made his literary executors. With his usual promptness Mr. Ticknor purpose of seeing and taking down the oral narratives of those who had been Mr. Webster's neighbors, or employed by him. . . . . I am surprised anew every day at the sincerity and extent of the sorrow for Mr. Webster's death. There is a touch of repentance in it for the injustice that has been done him, and a feeling of anx