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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20
Chapter 20:
Letters, 1857-59, to Judge Curtis, Sir Edmund Head, Sir C. Lyell, Mr. R. H. Gardiner.
letter from Baron Humboldt.
letters to Mr. Everett, Hon. E. Twisleton, Sir W. C. Trevelyan.
The following letter-which, being chiefly concerned with our national affairs, belongs rather in the present chapter than where its date would have placed it–is addressed to a person whose slight connection with this book is no indication of his position in Mr. Ticknor's esteem.
Judge Curtis was regarded by his uncle with an affectionate and faithful interest from his boyhood, and in his maturer years he became the object of a respect, and admiration, which seemed to neutralize the natural effect of their relative ages.
The appointment of Mr. Curtis to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, in 1851, gratified Mr. Ticknor in an extreme degree, while he felt that it was the place for which his nephew was by all the qualities of his mind and character express
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21
Chapter 21:
Letters, 1859-61, to Sir C. Lyell, Hon. E. Everett, Sir E. Head, C. S. Daveis.
To Sir Charles Lyell. Boston, May 17, 1859.
My dear Lyell,—By the time this letter reaches London, I trust that you will be safely back in Harley Street, from the land of dikes and canals,—a strange country, which I visited once, and seemed to lead such a sort of amphibious existence, that I have never cared to go there again.
But it was in the month of July, and the waters pumped up by the windmills did not give out Sabean odors.
We feel very uncomfortable about the news we get from your side of the Atlantic . . . . But I had rather talk about the progress of civilization than its decay and death, which are, I conceive, the natural results of the prevalence of military governments.
So I will tell you about Agassiz and his affairs. . . . . The establishment
The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. is a grand one, and I take an interest in it, not from any k
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22
Chapter 22:
1859 to 1864.
life of Prescott.
civil War.
The heavy loss of dear and trusted friends had fallen on Mr. Ticknor repeatedly, for in Haven, Legare, and Webster he had parted from much that gave charm and interest to his thoughtful life at different periods; but no blow of this kind struck so near the centre of his heart as that which deprived him of the delightful companionship of Prescott.
Such constant affection as had united them for forty years is very rare, and
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)