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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
o Washington for the first time since 1828, taking his eldest daughter with him, and the fortnight he passed there was very animated, owing to the presence in the society of the capital that season, of a number of persons with whom he could not fail to have interesting and agreeable intercourse. Mr. Webster was in Washington as Senator; so was Mr. Clay, who occupied rooms near Mr. Ticknor's in the hotel, and frequently came in as a friendly neighbor; Mr. Calderon was Spanish Minister; Mr. R. C. Winthrop was member of the House of Representatives from Boston; and many other friends and acquaintances were there, officially or for pleasure. Sir Henry Bulwer, as English Minister, was a brilliant acquisition to the society of the place; the Chevalier Hulsemann, Austrian Charge d'affaires, recollected seeing Mr. Ticknor once in the riding-school in Gottingen, thirty-five years before, and remembered his appearance so well, he said he should have recognized him; a son of that Marquis de Sta
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
h he said he had always entertained on these points, and said that he did not think that he should have yielded his assent, but for your determination not to put your hand to the work unless these features of the plan were adopted in all their prominence. But the library did not yet exist. In an attic of the City Hall—in the old building, of which no part was spacious, or well appointed-four or five thousand volumes were stored, consisting of documents given by the city of Paris, by Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Everett, and others,—books entirely unsuited to stimulate either the popular taste for reading, or the disposition of the Common Council to make appropriations. In the city treasury was the sum of one thousand dollars, given about two years before by the then mayor, Mr. J. P. Bigelow, in aid of the establishment of a Free Public Library, from the income of which some of the books had been bought. Clearly the library was yet to be founded. The newly formed Board of Trustees appoi
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
ter, was unwilling to tell me. As breakfast was ready your aunt thought it better to wait till I had had the needed refreshment. So I did not get there till after nine. William was alone, and had seen nobody but his uncle. . . . . I sent for Mr. Winthrop, who came at once, but we were able to settle nothing, and are to go again at half past 12. . . . . I do not yet come to any living perception of what has happened; everything was so natural in that library, that when Winthrop came in my fiWinthrop came in my first impression was that Everett was entering the room. A minute afterwards I think I felt worse than I have at any time. It is a terrible shock. In a note to General Thayer he says: We shall miss him [Everett] very much. I had known him almost as long as I have known you. Pray try to live a little longer; I can't spare you all. . . . . To General Thayer, Braintree. Boston, April 25, 1865. my dear Thayer,—Faithful Michael—my true follower of fourteen years standing—honestly owned to <
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
ardiner, II. 371. William IV., King of England, I. 409. Williams, Friend, I. 337 note, 385. Williams, General, Sir William, II. 372. Williams, Miss, Helen Maria, I. 130, 132, 135, 138. Williams, Mr., Samuel, I. 297 and note. Willis, Mr., of Caius College, I. 436. Wilmot, Mr., I. 411. Wilson, II. 361. Wilson, John, I. 278 and note, II. 163, 164. Wilson, Professor, II. 155. Winckelmann, J. J., I. 178, II. 59. Winder, General, I. 29. Winsor, Justin, II. 318. Winthrop, Hon. Robert C., II. 263, 305, 470. Wirt, William, I 33, 351. Wiseman, Dr. (Cardinal), it. 73, 77, 80. Woburn Abbey, I. 269, 270, II. 466. Wolf. F. A., philologist, I. 105, 106, 107, 112, 114, 124. Wolf, Ferdinand, II. 2, 256 note, 260, 314; letter to, 274. Wolff, Emil, II. 58, 59, 84. Woodbury, L., T. 381. Woods' Hole, visits, II. 187, 196. Woodward, Mrs., I 4, 7, 273, 276. Woodward, Professor, I. 6. Woodward, William H., I. 4, 7, 250. Wordsworth, Miss, I. 28
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 19: last trip to Europe (search)
not expect him to make a speech. There were times, indeed, when it was easier to speak than to act; but it was not so with him, now. He would, however, be strangely constituted if he did not in his heart respond to their kind and generous welcome. In the longest speech he could make, he could but say in many phrases what he now said in a few sincere words,—that he was deeply grateful for the kindness which had been shown him. Ib. 114, 115. After visiting the House of Lords with Mr. R. C. Winthrop, on one occasion, he was accosted by a laboring man in the street, who asked permission to speak with him, and recited a verse of Excelsior, before which the poet promptly retreated. Passing to the continent, the party visited Switzerland, crossed by the St. Gothard Pass to Italy, and reached Cadenabbia, on the Lake of Como. They returned to Paris in the autumn; then went to Italy again, staying at Florence and Rome, where they saw the Abbe Liszt and obtained that charming sketch of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
., Barrett, 142; his Literary History of America, cited, 142 note. Wesselhoeft, Dr., Robert, 161. West Point, N. Y., 18. Westminster Abbey, service of commemoration for Longfellow at, 248-257. Weston, Miss Anne W., 167. Weston Mss., cited, 167 note. White Mountains, 51, 132. Whitman, Walt, 6, 10, 276. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1, 6, 68, 134, 168, 258, 265, 267, 285, 294; thanks Longfellow for his antislavery poems, 167; his literary position, 259; relations with Longfellow, 271. Wijk, Mr., 101-103. Wijk, Mrs., 102, 103. Wilcox, Carlos, 145. Wilde, Oscar, 292. Wilkins, Mary, 198. Willis, Nathaniel P., 8, 19, 89, 90, 247. Windsor Castle, 221. Winter, William, on Longfellow's unpublished poems, 276. Winthrop, R. C., 222. Wiseman, Cardinal, on Longfellow, 281. Worcester, Joseph E., 121. Worcester, Noah, 63, 64. Worcester, Mass., 118 note. Wordsworth, William, 7-10, 80, 266. York Cathedral, 224. Yorkshire County, Eng., 11. Zedlitz, Joseph C., 161.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., chapter 15 (search)
John Winthrop, and known as the Ten Hills. The records of the court say that, Sept. 6, 1631, the Court of Assistants grant to Mr. Governour 600 acres of land, to be set forth by metes and bounds near his house at Mistick to enjoy it, to him and his heirs forever. There are two suggestions as to the origin of the name of Ten Hills; one is that ten hills were comprised within its limits, and the other that ten hills could be counted around it. The latter suggestion is the one adopted in R. C. Winthrop's edition of the life and letters of John Winthrop. The governor's house was situated on the way leading from Charlestown to Mistick ford (now Broadway in Somerville and Main and South streets in Medford), and near the junction of Broadway and Main street, within the limits of the city of Somerville. Prior to this grant by the Court of Assistants, the governor had taken possession of a portion of the land and had built himself a house. July 4, 163, he launched his bark, called the Bl
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fires in Albemarle county. (search)
Mammoth Union petition. Boston, Jan. 24. --A committee, consisting of Ed. Everett, R. C. Winthrop, Amos Lawrence, E. S. Taby and Chas. L. Woodbury, left last night with the mammoth Union petition for Washington. The petition has 14,000 names on it.
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the land of Washington, where he had been received with open hands and hearts, to fire and sword. For his own fame, he ought to have died before the war, and carried the secret of his hollowness to the grave. There is no excuse for his apostasy in the Union frenzy that carried away the Northern conservative masses at the beginning of the war. He might have stood by the Union and yet preserved his own dignity and consistency. He might have stood aloof from the crusade of blood like R. C. Winthrop, or, whilst he held by the Union, have protested, like Franklin Pierce, against the crimes that have been committed in its name. There was no necessity that he should make himself a superserviceable lackey of Lincoln, and emulate B. F. Butler, Cushing and Dickerson in shameless political tergiversation. He might, with perfect safety to his reputation and himself, have refrained from a violent and demonstrative antagonism to his old opinions and principles. There are hundreds, perhaps
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