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April, 1844 AD (search for this): chapter 30
ard's memoir is an exquisite production. What are you about in Paris? Are you writing? You will read Milnes' article on Custine in the Edinburgh, and Lockhart's in the Quarterly. What say you to Custine? The Marquis de Custine's Russia, April, 1844. . . . Pray write long and cheerful letters to Mary. Ever yours, Chas. To his brother George. Boston, May 15, 1844. dear George,—Mary is at Springfield, and near pleasant friends; enjoys the alleys green and drives down to the rivds. But I feel too strongly that there is an iron hand on her, which cannot be unloosed. I hope you will find time to write her a long letter, full of details that may charm her. . . . The article on Architecture North American Review, April, 1844; Vol. LVIII. p. 436. is very clever. It is by Gilman,—a young man of twenty-seven, who first studied theology, then law; but during these grave studies his heart was in Architecture,—for which he seems to me to have a decided genius. At t<
March 19th (search for this): chapter 30
evailed in the suit in March, 1846. Sumner was paid five hundred dollars for his services,—a professional fee which it was rarely his good fortune to receive in a single case. To Mr. Choate's kindly interest he was doubtless indebted for the opportunity to earn it. His connection with the case is referred to in Mr. Choate's Works and Memoir, Vol. I. pp. 74, 75. See Boston Advertiser, Feb. 22, 1844. The Council Records of Massachusetts, March 31, 1846, with the report of a committee, March 19, give a detailed statement of the services of the several counsel. In the winter of 1844-45, he was counsel before a legislative committee in a case of considerable interest,—the petition of the people of Chelsea, then a town of three thousand inhabitants, for a railroad designed to connect that and neighboring communities with Boston by a land route; the connection being then by a railroad with a terminus at East Boston, and thence by ferry to the city proper. His argument for the pet
August 26th, 1844 AD (search for this): chapter 30
veral volumes, which I had never met before. I hope to send with this the volumes of autographs, which gratified my sister as well as myself. I think I have at my office a pleasant note from Rogers, received during the last year, which is at your service. You have his likeness, but I believe no good autograph of his. Grateful for your kindness, and particularly your friendly thoughts of me in my illness, believe me sincerely yours. To his brother George. Boston, Monday Evening, Aug. 26, 1844. my dear George,—You will see that I still use the kind hand of another. I continue to gain strength daily; but am nevertheless very weak, and my pulse was to-day a hundred and four. I hope, day after to-morrow, Wednesday, to be able to leave these pent — up streets, and to escape into the country, there to taste the fresh air, to look upon the beautiful trees, and to enjoy—what I have not here—uninterrupted opportunities for exercise. At this moment it would be with difficulty th
March 1st, 1844 AD (search for this): chapter 30
tive,—that he is even a good scholar,—but you miss that aroma which comes from refined life, and the sweet tone of the gentleman. He was here not long since. . . . We are all glad to hear that your face is now set homewards. You will find great changes in Boston. The place is much improved since you have seen it; and yet I suspect it will seem to you smaller than it once did. Your European optics will not magnify things among us. Ever yours, C. S. To his brother George. Boston, March 1, 1844. my dear George,—I have but one moment for a scrawl to you. We are all stunned this morning by the intelligence of the death of Upshur, Secretary of State, and of Gilmer, Secretary of Navy, by the explosion of a Paixhan-gun on board of the Princeton. So this engine, formed for war, has killed its friends! I hope it may act to discourage further expenditure and experiment in such things. I would not vote a dollar for any engine of war. One war-steamer costs more than all the endowm<
August 27th, 1844 AD (search for this): chapter 30
fter the last war, to render our country independent for its manufactures and fabrics of all kinds of foreign nations. Far better would it be, and more in harmony with God's Providence, if we were dependent upon all nations. Then would war be impossible. As civilization advances, the state of national dependence is promoted; and even England, at this moment, can hardly call herself independent of the United States. Your affectionate brother, Chas. To Dr. Samuel G. Howe. Boston, Aug. 27, 1844. dearest Howe,—My first letter, of an earlier date, was written to greet you on your vaunt that you should be in New York on the sixteenth of August. Would that you had been! I leave this pent — up place to-morrow. I feel like a sinner, dearest Howe, and untrue to your valued friendship for me, and my strong desire to seal it again by personal intercourse, while I run away as you are coming. But all my friends and physicians speed me; and the first desire of my soul is health,—not<
April 30th, 1827 AD (search for this): chapter 30
n the death of Sir James Eyre, in July, 1799, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eldon, and appointed to the vacant office of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. In the spring of 1801, on the retirement of Mr. Pitt's administration, he was advanced to the post of Lord High Chancellor. On the accession of the Whigs to power, he resigned the great seal, Feb. 7, 1806, giving place to Lord Erskine. He resumed it, April 1, 1807, from which time he maintained his seat on the woolsack till April 30, 1827, being altogether a period of nearly twenty-five years,—a longer service than was allotted to any of his predecessors. It was so long as to be called in derision by Jeremy Bentham the reign of John the Second. The cases in which he gave judgment occupy upwards of thirty volumes. They abound in learning and in the results of a keen and discriminating mind, directed by industry and conscientiousness. He died Jan. 13, 1838. See London Law Magazine, Vol. XX. pp. 48-87, 342-384; Vol. X
August 28th, 1844 AD (search for this): chapter 30
My sister Mary still lingers at Waltham, enjoying occasional drives, but fading gradually. Adieu, with my welcome to your wife and sisters. Ever affectionately thine, C. S. P. S. The weather is not unpropitious, and I commence my journey this afternoon, going as far as Worcester, where Kinnicut has engaged rooms. How unlike that bridal journey, when we talked away the space between Boston and New York, going by the way of Worcester! To Henry W. Longfellow. Hancock Street, Aug. 28, 1844. my dear Henry,—You were wafted away so suddenly last evening by Macready and Felton, that I had not a moment of grace to converse with you. Do you remember that Dryden in his fables has translated several of the tales of Boccaccio? Sigismonda and Guiscardo,—Theodore and Honoria,—and Cymon and Iphigenia. Of these Wordsworth says, in a letter to Scott, I think his translations from Boccaccio are the best, at least the most poetical, of his poems. He has altered Boccaccio's names<
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