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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
he adds, They will stay till Friday, so as to dine at the President's on Thursday, for which we have invitations, but I would not stop here next week to dine with the Three Holy Kings of Cologne. The description, in the Life of Prescott, of the attentions showered upon his friend, might be applied with equal truth to the welcome Mr. Ticknor himself received. This visit to Washington is mentioned in the following letter to Mr. Milman:— To the Rev. H. H. Milman, London. Boston, April 30, 1850. my dear Mr. Milman,—I am indebted to you for a most kind letter concerning my History of Spanish Literature. Such approbation as your kindness has given is the true and highest reward an author receives; for though the public may read,—and in this country the reading public is very large,--yet it is the few who decide. . . . . I have lately spent a fortnight in Washington. The times there are very stirring, the passions of men much excited. But no permanent mischief will come f<