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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Lydia Maria Child. (search)
hand that wrote it is mingling with the dust. Should it be the means of advancing even one single hour the inevitable progress of truth and justice, I would not exchange the consciousness for all Rothschild's wealth or Sir Walter's fame. John G. Whittier, in his preface to Mrs. Child's Letters, published in 1883, wrote, concerning this appeal: It is quite impossible for any one of the present generation to imagine the popular surprise and indignation which this book called forth, or how entiot be more happily situated than in Friend Hopper's family. Friend Hopper, as she called him, according to the custom among friends in addressing a person older than yourself, was Isaac T. Hopper, whose remarkable life she afterwards wrote. Whittier calls this one of the most readable biographies in English literature. During her stay in New York, which continued, contrary to all expectation, until 1849 or 1850, she wrote a series of letters to the Boston Courier, edited by Joseph Buckingh
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 16., Distinguished guests and residents of Medford. (search)
Julian, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a school friend of one of the sons. Lest we forget what the country and our state owes to this man, of whom we ought to be proud as being a citizen of Medford, let us recall with gratitude these verses from Whittier's tribute to George L. Stearns:— He has done the work of a true man,— Crown him, honor him, love him. Weep over him, tears of woman, Stoop manliest brows above him! For the warmest of hearts is frozen, The freest of hands is still; And the ga while visiting in the place of his labors. So eminent an artist as Richard M. Staigg, who had been a pupil of Washington Allston, and excelled in miniature painting, had pupils here to whom he gave instruction in drawing (about 1863). John G. Whittier was a guest in the home of his brother, Matthew Francis Whittier, who at that time (1865-8) owned the cottage house on Pleasant street (present number 50), now occupied by Mrs. Sarah K. Tebbetts, from whom she bought the property in 1871. T
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 15., Story of Songs from the Medford Woods. (search)
poem, greatly changed, appeared in the little volume named Child Life, edited by the poet, John G. Whittier. Friends immediately recognized it, however, as the thoughts of Carrie Smith, as she was familiarly known, and wrote Whittier concerning it. Some correspondence followed, and the poet wrote Miss Smith, saying the poem had been sent in manuscript form to him by a friend, and at the end of tt seemed not complete and some of the lines defective, and supposing it to be his friend's, he (Whittier) re-wrote and amplified it and signed it as anonymous. Only after printing it had he learned ias Clara instead of Carrie Smith. Here is her poem, and beside it is the poem as accredited to Whittier, appearing in 1871. Jack-in-the-pulpit. Jack, in his pulpit, Preaches today, Under the greely illustrated in color, and attached was a copy of a letter giving credit to Carrie Smith, as Whittier did not wish to claim the originality of the idea. A book of the poem, with the flowers prin
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