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Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 13
running away than to restore them; this it effects. . . . . But as I have told you before, the great difficulty which underlies all these political questions is the difference of race; more formidable than any other, and all others. . . . . Your friends here are, I believe, all well. Prescott, with a gay party, is gone to Niagara, and sends pleasant accounts back, coming himself in a few days. We go off before long. . . . . Yours faithfully, George Ticknor. To Mr. Webster, Washington, D. C. Bellows Falls, Vermont, July 9, 1851. my dear Sir,—I thank you for a copy of your speeches at Albany, which followed me here last night from Boston, and which I am glad to have in a permanent form, and to read again, with few typographical errors. However, I should hardly trouble you with my thanks if the same post that brought your parcel had not brought me a letter which you must in part answer. It was from Sir Edmund Head, Lieutenant-Governor The official title. of New Br
Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
n of worthless and injurious English books, and by the encouragement of American authors and publishers, fill the country with useful, interesting, healthy reading, to a degree never known before, and with beneficial consequences, all of which cannot now be foreseen. We could, in fact, adapt our reading to our real wants and best interests much more than we do now, and so do much more by it for the general improvement and elevation of the national character. To C. S. Daveis, Portland. Caldwell, Lake George, August 22, 1852. my dear Charles,—By this time you may, perhaps, be curious touching our whereabouts; and if you are not, I have some mind to give you an account of what we have done since I saw you last, and what we propose to do, peradventure, in the course of the next two or three weeks. Our first hit was Niagara, and a very happy one, as it turned out. We spent ten days on the American side, . . . . but the Lundy's Lane gathering approached, A political meeting co
Lake George, Fla. (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
seen. We could, in fact, adapt our reading to our real wants and best interests much more than we do now, and so do much more by it for the general improvement and elevation of the national character. To C. S. Daveis, Portland. Caldwell, Lake George, August 22, 1852. my dear Charles,—By this time you may, perhaps, be curious touching our whereabouts; and if you are not, I have some mind to give you an account of what we have done since I saw you last, and what we propose to do, peradvend died after six years illness, while we were at Niagara. The beauty of everything without, and the luxury, finish, exactness, of everything within, contrasted strongly with the noiseless stillness of a house of death . . . . Here, again,—Lake George, In the years from 1851 to 1855, inclusive, Mr. Ticknor and his family passed a part of each summer on the shores of this lovely lake.—is another contrast to the rushing glories of Niagara, for the beautiful, quiet lake is always before us,<
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 13
untry, or what the whole people—little likely to be deceived on such great matters affecting themselves—believe to be their real interests . . . . The affair of Cuba, I suppose, made much noise for a time in Germany, and perhaps the American government was blamed. But it did not deserve to be. We have, as you know, no secret phagres,—as if they were going to California,—in a regular packet from New Orleans, and then, when at sea, were transferred to the steam-vessel that carried them to Cuba. The government officers and the agents of the Spanish Minister at Washington, who suspected what was going on, had been watching for some time at New Orleans, Neeen arrested, and will be tried. It was a piratical affair altogether. The persons engaged in it were chiefly foreigners, and the money to carry it on came from Cuba. The death of Sir Robert Peel will be felt in the affairs of Europe; in England his great administrative talents will be excessively missed . . . . I have finish
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
y seen by anybody, his time being wholly given to his great public objects. . . . . Whenever you arrive, you must come directly to our house, whether we are at home or not; for in any event, I think, you would be better off than you would be at the Tremont. Most of our servants will be there . . . . Yours, always faithfully, Geo. Ticknor. To G. T. Curtis, Esq. Clifton House [Canada], Niagara Falls, July 29, 1852. my dear George,—I received, some days ago, your note written at Newport. We were then on the other side of the river, where we stayed ten days, our rooms—or at least the balcony before them overhanging the Rapids, right opposite Goat Island, . . . . making the island our great resort, seeing the sunset there daily, and passing two evenings of superb moonlight there. Five days ago we came over here, and established ourselves in a neat, cheerful little cottage, with a large garden before it; the only thing there is between us and the excellent hotel where we ge
William W. Wadsworth (search for this): chapter 13
e, jumping and dancing for a moment on the perilous edge, and then plunging into the roaring, boiling abyss, on whose verge our little boat was all the while tossing. It was grand, brilliant, awful beyond anything I ever saw; quite beyond Mont Blanc or the Jungfrau . . . . . There is no real danger in it, and at the full moon everybody will go on the river, I think, to see it. We went repeatedly. From Niagara we went to Geneseo, and passed three or four sad days with our friend Mrs. William W. Wadsworth, whose husband died after six years illness, while we were at Niagara. The beauty of everything without, and the luxury, finish, exactness, of everything within, contrasted strongly with the noiseless stillness of a house of death . . . . Here, again,—Lake George, In the years from 1851 to 1855, inclusive, Mr. Ticknor and his family passed a part of each summer on the shores of this lovely lake.—is another contrast to the rushing glories of Niagara, for the beautiful, quiet
Calderon (search for this): chapter 13
ng of the year 1850 Mr. Ticknor went to Washington for the first time since 1828, taking his eldest daughter with him, and the fortnight he passed there was very animated, owing to the presence in the society of the capital that season, of a number of persons with whom he could not fail to have interesting and agreeable intercourse. Mr. Webster was in Washington as Senator; so was Mr. Clay, who occupied rooms near Mr. Ticknor's in the hotel, and frequently came in as a friendly neighbor; Mr. Calderon was Spanish Minister; Mr. R. C. Winthrop was member of the House of Representatives from Boston; and many other friends and acquaintances were there, officially or for pleasure. Sir Henry Bulwer, as English Minister, was a brilliant acquisition to the society of the place; the Chevalier Hulsemann, Austrian Charge d'affaires, recollected seeing Mr. Ticknor once in the riding-school in Gottingen, thirty-five years before, and remembered his appearance so well, he said he should have recogn
H. H. Milman (search for this): chapter 13
Chapter 13: Visit to Washington. letters to Mr. Milman, Prince John, Sir E. Head, Sir C. Lyell, F. Wolf, D. Webster, E. Everett, G. T. Curtis, and C. S. Daveis. New books.-passing events. Spanish literary subjects. slavery. internattruth 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 mostthe 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 iMr. 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 from it. The people of the North have neither been frighte
D. Webster (search for this): chapter 13
conversation, and the mornings passed with Mr. Webster, or in the Houses of Congress and the SupreIn another letter he says:— The dinner at Webster's was very agreeable, quite agreeable; thoughnly owing to the conciliatory tone taken by Mr. Webster, which has much quieted the popular feelings, besides, the uppermost subject here now. Mr. Webster made a bold and manly speech about it in onim about it. During this visit in Boston Mr. Webster one day sent a note to Mr. Ticknor asking hunited to give a semi-public dinner in his (Mr. Webster's) honor, Mr. Ticknor was induced to sit doashington would be anything but agreeable. Webster, too, has been here, and hurried off yesterda and in that case you have not missed reading Webster's letter to Hulsemann, the Austrian Charge, o am sending a parcel, I put into it a copy of Webster's late speeches in the State of New York. Yoquite private. A report has reached me that Mr. Webster may visit the British Provinces in his vaca[4 more...]
Juan Perez (search for this): chapter 13
eral sense, though I do not quite make out what are the two particular sills referred to. As a proverbial expression, sometimes ambas sillas, referring to the silla a la quieta and the albarda, and sometimes de todas sillas, referring to all modes of mounting and riding, I suppose it means what we mean when we say a man is up to anything, just as the converse, no ser para silla ni para albarda, means a blockhead. . . . . Thank you, too, very much for the note about the New Testament of Juan Perez. I never saw the book, and do not understand whether you have a copy, or only saw one at Thorpe's. But, if you have one at hand, I should be much obliged if you will give me a little bibliographical account of it. I am much struck by what you say about Francis Newman and his Phases of Faith; the more so, because only the Sunday before your letter came, I read a book, by William Rathbone Greg, called The Creed of Christendom, to which your account of Newman's could be applied verbatim.
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