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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
volumes. On the day of Mr. Everett's death Mr. Ticknor wrote to Mr. G. T. Curtis:— Boston, Sunday, January 15, 1865. my dear George,—Everett died of apoplexy this morning at about half past 4 o'clock. I went to see him yesterday, because he was unwell, although I was, myself, not quite right for going out in bad weather. He was suffering from a terrible cold, which he caught last Monday, when he made a legal argument before referees about the damage done to his estate in Medford by the Charlestown water-works; and afterwards, before dinner, made the speech you have seen about the Savannah case. The doctor—Hayward—had been anxious about him at first, but was soon relieved of any apprehension of immediate danger, though he treated him tenderly, and visited him twice daily, watching him with care, as he said, because he was above seventy. When I saw him yesterday, he could not speak above a whisper, and was evidently quite ill, but he was in his library and moved