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West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ousand acres or a mile square, and stretching far up into the beautiful Holderness woods behind. The boundary of the farm is the Pemigewasset River; and one corer boundary of the farm is described in the old deed, with unconscious repetition, as the Pont-Fayette bridge. I have sought in vain for the origin of this French name; and Crooked Mountain Pine Place has no historian. It is known that in 1780 a brigade of New Hampshire troops, commanded by Colonel Poor, served under Lafayette at West Point and in New Jersey; and possibly this bridge may have been first built soon after this time and by some of Lafayette's old soldiers. The name was given at the time when Lafayette visited Concord, New Hampshire. My informant, formerly town clerk (who remembers when there was only a ford), thinks that the bridge had been built a short time before; at any rate, some leading men from the village went to Concord and saw L. F., and on their return proposed this name for the bridge which was a
Pemigewasset (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
land. Gradually we saw the grass cut, and daily the fragrant loads were carried into the great barns beyond the intervale, and now in September the rural roads lead through short grass and past clumps of still wild sunflowers and still lingering rose-raspberry — the most conspicuous all-summer bloom. The whole intervale belongs to one farm, originally a thousand acres or a mile square, and stretching far up into the beautiful Holderness woods behind. The boundary of the farm is the Pemigewasset River; and one corer boundary of the farm is described in the old deed, with unconscious repetition, as the Pont-Fayette bridge. I have sought in vain for the origin of this French name; and Crooked Mountain Pine Place has no historian. It is known that in 1780 a brigade of New Hampshire troops, commanded by Colonel Poor, served under Lafayette at West Point and in New Jersey; and possibly this bridge may have been first built soon after this time and by some of Lafayette's old soldiers.
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e appeal for a loan of money, and when Moses was arrested and confined in the East Cambridge jail, kept him supplied with reading matter. January 31, 1885 To see Moses in jail at East Cambridge by his request. He a good deal broken down and unnerved; said I could not abhor his crime more than he did; that he was not all bad, but easily influenced; that he had done good to many, but had had no helping hand. Said the first time for years that he had a chance was in getting a position at Chicago . .. and this my complaint of him had overthrown. Since then he had lived the life of a fugitive, worse than prison. Even when at liberty, his days were agony and nights hell. Asked only for a companion in cell, and was chiefly anxious I should know meant no harm by getting my photo. Reminded me that his first alienation from friends was through his siding with the blacks whom I had befriended. Would not take my hand at first. In short, worked skillfully on my feelings, while not comm
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
joy yourself! He replied, with his inimitable smile, Rely upon me! and so I rely on you. Colonel Higginson constantly corresponded with his kinsman, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and Miss Stedman has kindly allowed the use of these extracts. Newport, November 28, 1875 My Dear Stedman: . . .I think that you place Matthew Arnold far too high, he seeming to me to rank among the fourth rates as a poet, whatever the merit of his prose. Then I think you dismiss Charles (Turner) Tennyson with ark. The strength of Whittier has been in finding all needed elements of poetry at home. In answer to this letter of criticism, Stedman replied that he was speaking only of his personal experience in youth; that it was not the sentiment of Newport or Boston, but of a Calvinistic back-country, where he was injured for life and almost perished of repression and atrophy. January 9, 1888 Do pay proper attention to William Austin, of whom Duyckinck has some account. I think his Peter Rugg
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ing assumed a name or having swindled others. September 15, 1889 . . . I enjoyed my Guilford [Connecticut] trip. It is an old town on the Sound full of old houses, one of them two hundred and fifty years old this year, the oldest in the United States, a stone house in perfect condition. There Rev. John Higginson married Parson Whitfield's daughter. All the old houses were labelled with the year they were built and often with the names of the earlier residents; so that it was like steppiuperbly rousing way the negro spirituals I love. The leader, a magnificently big and strong fellow, could fill the Stadium, I think, with his voice alone. On talking with him later, I found that he had studied my Young folks' history of the United States. Besides singing we had speeches, and one superb one from a Richmond professor, wholly modern and enthusiastic in new thoughts . . . Last evening we had jovial story-telling in which the Virginians beat out and out and Yankees were nowhere.
Guilford, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
liberty, his days were agony and nights hell. Asked only for a companion in cell, and was chiefly anxious I should know meant no harm by getting my photo. Reminded me that his first alienation from friends was through his siding with the blacks whom I had befriended. Would not take my hand at first. In short, worked skillfully on my feelings, while not committing himself when I spoke of his having assumed a name or having swindled others. September 15, 1889 . . . I enjoyed my Guilford [Connecticut] trip. It is an old town on the Sound full of old houses, one of them two hundred and fifty years old this year, the oldest in the United States, a stone house in perfect condition. There Rev. John Higginson married Parson Whitfield's daughter. All the old houses were labelled with the year they were built and often with the names of the earlier residents; so that it was like stepping back two hundred and fifty years. I went to a large reception, where everybody, on being introdu
Plymouth, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
n the least in anything connected with Emerson and Hawthorne. The following was written in a copy of The Monarch of Dreams which was given to Stedman: Cambridge, October 24, 1887 This is rather my favorite child, I think, partly because it is the only thing I ever had rejected by a magazine (Scudder in the Atlantic ), and yet it has been more praised by many than anything I ever did — including very cool critics such as Lowell and Norton. This description of a summer in Plymouth, New Hampshire, was found in the journal of 1880: Our chief drives were over the mountain roads and the greatest delight was to come out on some unexpected view of the beautiful Franconia Notch, which seems the gateway to some happy land. ... One is never wearied of mountain views; in the brightest day there are usually soft cloud shadows sailing over them, and when visible, they are never monotonous. It is always pleasurable in these mountain drives to turn back to the green intervales of C
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
imes says things awkwardly, meaning no harm, as when he said to Ellen Emerson of her father in England, I understand he wished to see me, which offends Boston and Concord, but really meant nothing. I have heard him say nothing uppish and don't think he felt it. He is much touched with the familiarity he finds among teachers with ral times while in this country, and though I had always admired a few of his things, found him more and more likable, at least. He amused us here by going up to Concord for a Sunday and searching out the minutest memorials of Thoreau, while not interesting himself in the least in anything connected with Emerson and Hawthorne. lerk (who remembers when there was only a ford), thinks that the bridge had been built a short time before; at any rate, some leading men from the village went to Concord and saw L. F., and on their return proposed this name for the bridge which was adopted. I can find no reference to it in the town records earlier than 1826, wher
Campton (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
occasion a lady who was staying at the Profile House visited the points of interest round the Flume House and on her return missed a diamond ring. She returned and looked all about the flume and pool in a rain. Hearing of the boy she drove to Campton, some twenty miles away, and visited him. He said, looking in the fire, that he saw the ring lying under the piazza at the Flume House, where it had slipped through a crack of the floor, after falling from her hand. On looking beneath the piazzone day, when some men came from Lancaster to Plymouth to follow up inquiries about a watch that had been stolen from a dwelling-house, they were advised by the railway conductor aforesaid to consult the strange boy. They accordingly drove up to Campton and bade the boy look in the fire. He said at once, I see the watch in the house from which it was stolen; you go through a front room with a black shut — up bed in it, then through a passage, then into an unfinished room with a cupboard in the
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
mile square, and stretching far up into the beautiful Holderness woods behind. The boundary of the farm is the Pemigewasset River; and one corer boundary of the farm is described in the old deed, with unconscious repetition, as the Pont-Fayette bridge. I have sought in vain for the origin of this French name; and Crooked Mountain Pine Place has no historian. It is known that in 1780 a brigade of New Hampshire troops, commanded by Colonel Poor, served under Lafayette at West Point and in New Jersey; and possibly this bridge may have been first built soon after this time and by some of Lafayette's old soldiers. The name was given at the time when Lafayette visited Concord, New Hampshire. My informant, formerly town clerk (who remembers when there was only a ford), thinks that the bridge had been built a short time before; at any rate, some leading men from the village went to Concord and saw L. F., and on their return proposed this name for the bridge which was adopted. I can fin
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