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George Latimer (search for this): chapter 9
he would have created one. . . . Swift said, Whosoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best-bred man in the company. London letters, I. 124. Tried by this last standard, at least, Whittier was unsurpassed; and living in America, where artificial standards are at least secondary, he never found himself misplaced. The relation between himself and others rested wholly on real grounds, and could be more easily computed. Personally I met him first in 1843, when the excitement of the Latimer case still echoed through Massachusetts, and the younger abolitionists, of whom I was one, were full of the joy of eventful living. I was then nineteen, and saw the poet for the first time at an eating-house known as Campbell's, and then quite a resort for reformers of all sorts, and incidentally of economical college students. Some one near me said, There is Whittier. I saw before me a man of striking personal appearance; tall, slender, with olive complexion, black hair, straight, blac
W. M. Evarts (search for this): chapter 9
first young lady, this gift was duplicated, as seen by the following note — having the same combination, as before, of philanthropy and politics:-- Oak Knoll, Danvers, 3d mo., 26, 1878. My Dear Higginson,--Thanks for thy letter. I have mislaid —'s address. . . . Will thee drop me a postal to tell me? I will send her $50 as a wedding gift, as thee suggest. I am glad she is soon to escape from her desk drudgery. Thine always, J. G. W. If there is a change in the Cabinet I hope Evarts will go. He may be a lawyer — he seems to be nothing else. He has about as much magnetism as one of Dexter's wooden images. Washburn, late minister to France, would do well in the Cabinet, I think. This was in early life, but after the sales of his poems became lucrative his income was large in proportion to his needs,--his personal expenditures increasing but slightly,--and he was, as his friends knew, most generous in giving. In this he was stimulated perhaps by the extraordinary e<
John G. Whittier (search for this): chapter 9
t give to the works which interested her; yet Whittier was distinctly treading a similar path when h the best meetings I ever attended. Kennedy's Whittier, pp. 167-68. No one came nearer to WhittWhittier in all good deeds or in private intimacy than the late Mrs. Mary B. Claflin, well known in Bostoverge of a great moral lapse a marked copy of Whittier than any other book in our language. She goepresident replied, Go to the library and take Whittier's poems, sit down by your window and read Theieted by being persuaded to sit down and read Whittier's poem on The eternal Goodness. These wereother subjects. He had, it seems, translated Whittier's Cry of a lost soul into Portuguese. When, like a fool. A woman said to me yesterday, Mr. Whittier, your smile is a benediction. As I was waland self-withdrawing in conversation although Whittier might be, he was never caught at a disadvanta was excluded save under disguise, I remember Whittier's glances of subdued amusement while Lowell a[22 more...]
J. T. Sargent (search for this): chapter 9
tion on all other subjects. He had, it seems, translated Whittier's Cry of a lost soul into Portuguese. When, on June 14, they met at the Radical Club, at Rev. J. T. Sargent's, on Chestnut Street, the interview was thus described in Mrs. Sargent's record of the club:-- When the emperor arrived, the other guests had alreadyMrs. Sargent's record of the club:-- When the emperor arrived, the other guests had already assembled. Sending up his card, his Majesty followed it with the quickness of an enthusiastic schoolboy; and his first question, after somewhat hastily paying his greetings, was for Mr. Whittier. The poet stepped forward to meet his imperial admirer, who would fain have caught him in his arms and embraced him warmly, with all tr was driving away, he was seen standing erect in his open barouche, and waving his hat, with a seeming hurrah, at the house which held his venerable friend. Mrs. Sargent's Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club, pp. 301-02. Mrs. Claflin tells us that Whittier, when her guest in his later life, received many letters
Harriet Beecher Stowe (search for this): chapter 9
e whose summing up of the affairs afterward was better worth hearing. On the noted occasion,--the parting dinner given to Dr. and Mrs. Stowe,--the only one where wine was excluded save under disguise, I remember Whittier's glances of subdued amusemMrs. Stowe,--the only one where wine was excluded save under disguise, I remember Whittier's glances of subdued amusement while Lowell at the end of the table was urging upon Mrs. Stowe the great superiority of Tom Jones to all other novels, and Holmes at the other end was demonstrating to the Rev. Dr. Stowe that all swearing really began in the too familiar use ofMrs. Stowe the great superiority of Tom Jones to all other novels, and Holmes at the other end was demonstrating to the Rev. Dr. Stowe that all swearing really began in the too familiar use of holy words in the pulpit. His unmoved demeanour, as of a delegate sent from the Society of Friends to represent the gospel of silence among the most vivacious talkers, recalled Hazlitt's description of the supper parties at Charles Lamb's parties wthe Rev. Dr. Stowe that all swearing really began in the too familiar use of holy words in the pulpit. His unmoved demeanour, as of a delegate sent from the Society of Friends to represent the gospel of silence among the most vivacious talkers, recalled Hazlitt's description of the supper parties at Charles Lamb's parties which included Mrs. Reynolds, who being of a quiet turn, loved to hear a noisy debate. Hazlitt's essay, On the conversation of authors.
Timothy Dexter (search for this): chapter 9
before, of philanthropy and politics:-- Oak Knoll, Danvers, 3d mo., 26, 1878. My Dear Higginson,--Thanks for thy letter. I have mislaid —'s address. . . . Will thee drop me a postal to tell me? I will send her $50 as a wedding gift, as thee suggest. I am glad she is soon to escape from her desk drudgery. Thine always, J. G. W. If there is a change in the Cabinet I hope Evarts will go. He may be a lawyer — he seems to be nothing else. He has about as much magnetism as one of Dexter's wooden images. Washburn, late minister to France, would do well in the Cabinet, I think. This was in early life, but after the sales of his poems became lucrative his income was large in proportion to his needs,--his personal expenditures increasing but slightly,--and he was, as his friends knew, most generous in giving. In this he was stimulated perhaps by the extraordinary example of his old friend, Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, whose letters he edited, and who used to deny herself many
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (search for this): chapter 9
n. Some years later, on the marriage of the first young lady, this gift was duplicated, as seen by the following note — having the same combination, as before, of philanthropy and politics:-- Oak Knoll, Danvers, 3d mo., 26, 1878. My Dear Higginson,--Thanks for thy letter. I have mislaid —'s address. . . . Will thee drop me a postal to tell me? I will send her $50 as a wedding gift, as thee suggest. I am glad she is soon to escape from her desk drudgery. Thine always, J. G. W. bed regularly and largely to General Armstrong's great enterprise for the instruction of the blacks and Indians at Hampton; and apart from this he was writing such letters as the following, all the time-- Amesbury, 16th, 7th mo., 1870. Dear Higginson,--Enclosed find cheque for Fifty Dollars, $50. [This was for a person known to both of us.] I see by the Transcript that Phebe Cary lies very ill in Newport — dangerously, even. I do not know her address. I wish thee wd. find out, & call, <
Dom Pedro (search for this): chapter 9
m on The eternal Goodness. These were Whittier's relations with those poorer or humbler than himself. He never visited princes, and so was not tested much in that direction, but I remember an occasion when an emperor once visited him. While Dom Pedro II., formerly emperor of Brazil, was in the United States in 1876, I had the pleasure of meeting him at George Bancroft's house in Newport, R. I., and remember well the desire that he expressed to see Whittier, and the comparative indifference ial admirer, who would fain have caught him in his arms and embraced him warmly, with all the enthusiasm of the Latin race. The diffident Friend seemed somewhat abashed at so demonstrative a greeting, but with a cordial grasp of the hand drew Dom Pedro to the sofa, where the two chatted easily and with the familiarity of old friends. The rest of the company allowed them to enjoy their tete-à--tete for some half-hour, when they ventured to interrupt it, and the emperor joined very heartily
Tom Jones (search for this): chapter 9
Lowell at the other, he was in the position of every one else, notably Longfellow; but he had plenty of humour and critical keenness and there was no one whose summing up of the affairs afterward was better worth hearing. On the noted occasion,--the parting dinner given to Dr. and Mrs. Stowe,--the only one where wine was excluded save under disguise, I remember Whittier's glances of subdued amusement while Lowell at the end of the table was urging upon Mrs. Stowe the great superiority of Tom Jones to all other novels, and Holmes at the other end was demonstrating to the Rev. Dr. Stowe that all swearing really began in the too familiar use of holy words in the pulpit. His unmoved demeanour, as of a delegate sent from the Society of Friends to represent the gospel of silence among the most vivacious talkers, recalled Hazlitt's description of the supper parties at Charles Lamb's parties which included Mrs. Reynolds, who being of a quiet turn, loved to hear a noisy debate. Hazlitt's
Lydia Maria Child (search for this): chapter 9
seems to be nothing else. He has about as much magnetism as one of Dexter's wooden images. Washburn, late minister to France, would do well in the Cabinet, I think. This was in early life, but after the sales of his poems became lucrative his income was large in proportion to his needs,--his personal expenditures increasing but slightly,--and he was, as his friends knew, most generous in giving. In this he was stimulated perhaps by the extraordinary example of his old friend, Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, whose letters he edited, and who used to deny herself many of the common comforts of advancing years in order that she might give to the works which interested her; yet Whittier was distinctly treading a similar path when he subscribed regularly and largely to General Armstrong's great enterprise for the instruction of the blacks and Indians at Hampton; and apart from this he was writing such letters as the following, all the time-- Amesbury, 16th, 7th mo., 1870. Dear Higginson,
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