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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Sunday, May 15. (search)
Sunday, May 15. Another night of sleep. I am a day older, with gray hairs shooting forth with startling growth. We dined at Prescott's at five o'clock,—William and Charles Amory, W. H. Gardiner, Dr. Robbins, and myself. There was a good deal of pleasant conversation. Mr. Webster arrived in town yesterday. I wish to see him about Fay, and to revive the old plan about Greene; but our public men are so lost in selfishness that I do not hope much. If I were a partisan in politics, I should speak as one having influence. We Hillard and himself. have read the proofs of Dr. Channing's second pamphlet. It is bold, vivid, and full of life-giving truths. I admire the power of this man. Of all moral truth he has an instinctive perception, and clothes it in an angelic light. . . . So I close this rambling scrawl. What care you for these minutes and fragments of life here in Boston? You now look upon the Rhine and its castled glories. God bless you! my dear friend. Get
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
is in this connection instructive. Ante, Vol. II., p. 212. Mr. Prescott wrote, July 11, 1843:— Your article is excellent, and pleanthusiasm which their wit and beauty inspired. With them, as at Prescott's, he sometimes joined in the game of blind-man's-buff. In Septembrts. He is a most agreeable and interesting person. To William H. Prescott. Boston, Oct. 27, 1848. my dear Prescott,—I hardly know Prescott,—I hardly know how to express on paper the delight and instruction with which I have read your work. The Conquest of Mexico, which was published a few day in which they are expressed But I wander. Let me thank you, dear Prescott, most heartily for this new and beautiful contribution to our litew day. We have been anxious for a few days on account of old Judge Prescott, now eighty-two. He was recently struck with paralysis, but issed the dead waste and middle of the night. Think of a review for Prescott. Ever, my dear Morpeth, affectionately yours, Charles Sumner. <
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
ill to see. Hillard, Felton, Longfellow, and Prescott were admitted when others were denied. Theop be told as a memorial of them. Thus wrote Prescott in his diary, July 21, 1844:— Been to t cannot touch on any other topics. I hear of Prescott busy upon Philip the second. Give him my kinl then be heard, at least. We are enjoying Prescott's success. His work Conquest of Mexico. h read Hillard's rich and beautiful article on Prescott in the North American. We rejoice in this se during a pleasant excursion that I made with Prescott. My dear friend, the historian, has been pleillustrate the histories of Mexico and Peru. Prescott's copies of manuscripts amount to many volumethe old Life of Philip, which I shall send to Prescott,—though, as he does one thing at a time, he hhe American Revolution has gone to press; and Prescott is engaged in the preliminary studies for hisordially. You will read of the death of Judge Prescott,—aged eighty-two. He passed away most tra[2 more...
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 28: the city Oration,—the true grandeur of nations.—an argument against war.—July 4, 1845.—Age 34. (search)
familiar to the earlier pages of this Memoir, wrote from Lowell, Sept. 8, stating his conviction that the doctrines of the oration were not adapted to human nature; but saying: As a literary composition, I read it with unqualified satisfaction. I see the old style, the old hand and mind. But it is ripened, condensed, filled up with flowers and fruit, ripe scholarship grafted on a thoughtful mind. Many of its passages rise into eloquence of high order. Mr. Prescott wrote Life of W. H. Prescott, pp. 352, 353. from Pepperell, Aug. 15:— Thank you for your Discourse, which I have read—notes and all— with great pleasure and great instruction. You have amassed a heap of valuable and often recondite illustrations in support of a noble cause. And who can refuse sympathy with the spirit of philanthropy which has given rise to such a charming ideal?—but a little too unqualified. There can be no war that is not dishonorable. I can't go along with this. No! by all those w
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
his group had something to do with Motley and Prescott on the one hand and something with the new scwas the efficient literary secretary of William H. Prescott See Book II, Chap. XVII. during thee North American Review and other magazines. Prescott and his friends encouraged his efforts, and as worthy to rank with the books by Robertson, Prescott, and Motley which had already made the Burguntragedies, adventures, and earnest striving. Prescott and Motley might paint the gorgeous scenes ofinous correspondence, and, after the death of Prescott in 1859, writing his Life (1864). At this timle it was Ticknor who turned the attention of Prescott to Spanish history, yet Ticknor's own History did not appear until after Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, Conquest of Mexico, and Conquest of Pncle Tom's cabin, See Book III, Chap. XI. Prescott See Book II, Chap. XVIII. was probably th Of American authors he most nearly suggests Prescott, whose own cycle of studies indeed he touched[3 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
lbert Gallatin, 199 Life of Charles the Bold, the, 188, 189 Life of Farragut, 196 Life (of Fremont, by Bigelow), 152 Life of Fremont (Upham), 141 Life of George Cabot, 199 Life of Lincoln, 311, 370 Life of Nelson, 196 Life (of Prescott), 456 Life of reason, 258, 261 Life of Senator Benton in Connection with Western Explorations, The, 141 Life of Zeb Vance, 352 Life on the Mississippi, 11, 20 Light of the World, the, 223 Lillian's last love, 270 Lily, the, 282 Pratt, Lucy, 420 Praxiteles and Phryne, 38 Prayer of Twenty Millions, The, 322 Precht, V., 582 Preliminary essay to the translation of list's national system of political economy, a, 436 Prentice, 327 Prentiss, Ingram, 66 Prescott, W. H., 178, 183, 188, 190, 456, 458, 550, 598 Present age, the, 109 Present State of Virginia, 386 President's March, the, 494 Price, Thomas Randolph, 465 n. Priestley, 227 Prime, E. D. G., 136 Prime, W. C., 163 Prince, L. Bra
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
ase was paralysis, which had disabled him in the summer. His niece, the Duchess of Argyll, kept Sumner informed of the progress of his malady, and his brother, Charles Howard, Younger brother of the seventh earl and son-in-law of Lord Wensleydale (Baron Parke). His only son George, who married a daughter of the second Lord Stanley of Alderley, succeeded to the earldom in 1889 by the death of his uncle, William George, eighth earl. communicated the tidings of his death. The portraits of Prescott and Sumner hung in his chamber to the last. Sumner wrote to the duchess, December 27, when, by telegram from Cape Race, he heard of the earl's death:-- I do not think justice is done to his powers. His moral nature was so beautiful that people forget the rest; or perhaps he was to blame for not entering with more activity and directness into government. I have lost a friend; but there is no good cause which does not suffer by his death. I should like to know who was with him at Cas
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
ore specifically appropriate to the occasion, Mr. Sumner said he had once dined in company with Daniel Webster on a social occasion, when there were present William H. Prescott, the historian of Spain and her possessions; George Ticknor, who taught the Spaniards the wealth of their own literature; Joseph G. Cogswell, the most emines C. Gray, and many others of distinction. The subject as to what influence exerted the greatest effect upon men's character and acts came up for discussion. Mr. Prescott declared that a mother's influence was the most potent, and paid an eloquent tribute to the female sex in this relation. Another gentleman expressed the belihe afternoon of Sunday, the day before leaving for Washington, he passed at Cambridge with Agassiz. On the evening of the same day He dined with the son of William H. Prescott, with whom he renewed the memories of friendly and sympathetic intercourse with the historian. Among the guests were the young Lord Roseberry, and Longfell
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Note. (search)
(vol. II.). It is held by the artist to have been a good likeness at the tine, but others express a doubt. 3. Crayon, by W. W. Story; made from sittings in 1851 at the request of the seventh Earl of Carlisle, with some final touches from Seth W. Cheney, as Story left for Europe before it was quite finished (ante, vol. III. p. 64; IV. p. 261). It has been kept at Castle Howard, Yorkshire; it is a good likeness, and represents Sumner at his best, in the fulness and strength of manhood. Prescott wrote to Sumner in January, 1852: You cannot expect a better likeness in every sense. It was lithographed by S. W. Chandler before it was sent to England. Epes Sargent wrote of the print, which was published in 1854, that it was a capital likeness, and that nothing could be better. The biographer has a copy of a photograph of the picture, taken at York since the senator's death. 4. Daguerreotype, by Southworth and Hawes, of Boston, in 1853; taken for, and owned by, the biographer, and
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
a letter from Troy, New York, addressed to him by a lady born in Plymouth, who offered to send him Mr. Jefferson's letter to the Cardinal, which she had found among some autographs in her possession, and of which she had traced the history as above. She thought he ought to have the letter, because it concluded with a very high compliment to him. Mr. Ticknor was much pleased by this little incident, accepted the letter, and sent the lady a copy of the handsome quarto edition of his Life of Prescott, then just published. The fate of the letter was never further explained. Mr. Elisha Ticknor had obviously sent it on its way, but it did not go far on its journey. It would have introduced you to a circle worth studying as a variety in the human character. I am happy, however, to learn that your peregrinations through Europe have been successful as to the object to which they were directed. You will come home fraught with great means of promoting the science, and consequently the happ
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