parcorno 12/18/96 - Parents Ancestry - See 1874-77 for - T.W.Ward Papers ancestry (182%- ) - - -Parents - See 1874-77 for - anestry - T.W.ward Papers ancestry - George Cabot Wad (1824- ) - with ANPA, B45 f Sawtelle B45:f.2 18t3 & & Does S 1827 Entered with Suffork Deeds Cb 253 for 21g for Alline the n 3L eva all Journ UY Lijtu That J Bony Gray of Borton in the County of Suffolk & Commonwealth. of in Confideration of Four Thousand five hundred Dollars paid by Jamuel Door of said Borton Merhant the Receipt whereof J do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, fell and convey unto the faid Jamuel for his heirs & a hignes forever a bertain price or pursun of Sixond with in the Buildings mercon situation in Rain Street in said Borton - - bounded as follows South on said Roin Street Forty two feet West on other Land of faid Gray fat East on Land of Haile Rand, Willett& Bullard & Samuel Sixty one feet North on Land of Haite Rand Forty one Dillaway fixty one feet running acrofs the center of the Well, one half of which Well lies in the parced of Land herein described & the other half in Land belonging to Haile Rand - with all the priviledges & appur thereto belonging bring part of the Land purchased of G H Anthorn augt.4. 1001-& worded with hiffolk Deeds Lib 190, Tol 138 To have and to hold the afore-granted Premifes to the faid Jamuet for his Heirs and Affigns, to his 4 their Ufe and Behoof forever. AND I do covenant with the faid Jamuel forr his Heirs and Affigns, That I am lawfully feized in Fee of the afore-granted Premifes That they are free of all Incumbrances; That I have good Right to fell and convey the fame to the faid Samuel Dorr his him & assigns AND that I will warrant and defend the fame Premifes to the faid Door his Heirs and Affigns forever, againft the lawful Claims and Demands of all Perfons. In Witners whereof, J the faid Bery a Gray have hereunto fet my Hand and Seal this Twentieth Day of October in the Year of our LORD One thousand eight hundred and three Signed, fealed, and delivered in Prefence of us, Pen la 10 $10 Tis DO ES Boton 105. Oct.20th 12003 Arcised and Contered with Susfolk Deeds Lili 207 fdl. 105 Ag! No.113 Know all Men by these Presents, Whereas the CENTRAL WHARF AND WET DOCK CORPORATION" has agreed to divide Fifty Stores of the Range or Block of Fifty-four Stores now erected upon the Wharf lately built by the said Corporation, in Boston, called CUSTOM HOUSE WHARF, to and among the proprietors of the shares in said Corporation, according to their number of shares respectively;- so, however, that each proprietor of eight shares shall be entitled to one store, there being no person proprietor of less than eight shares -and has set up at publick auction, among the said proprietors, the priority or order of choice of said stores, which one proprietor shall have over others for every eight shares; and whereas Samuel Darr of Borlow, Earth in the county of Sixpoth merchand is the proprietor of shares in said Corporation, and has duly paid all the assessments hitherto laid and due thereon, and did, at the publick auction, had for that purpose, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, bid the sum of one hundred dollars, for the forty third choice of said stores, for eight shares as aforesaid, which is a greater sum than any other person has bid for the same, and has made choice of store numbered forty three of said range or block of stores, and paid to said Corporation the said sum of One hundred dollars, so as aforesaid bid for such choice; now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and of one dollar paid by the said Samuel Porr the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the said Corporation does hereby grant, sell, alien, and convey to the said famuel "Dorr" the said store numbered forty three of the said range or block of stores with the land under the same, bounded, as the building new slands, Southerly on said Wharf, there. measuring twenty live feel West only on store, numbered forty two running through the middle of the hartilion wall, there mensuring fifty three feel northerly CK Sait thank there insasting twenty two feel Ensterly on store numbered forty four running through the middle of the partition wali there fifty them feel be said, more or leff together with the right and privilege (in common with the other owners and proprietors of the said wharf and stores) of more or up, together with the right and privilege (in common with the other owners and proprietors of the said wharf and stores) of passing, for all purposes necessary for the accommodation of said store, and use of the same, to and from the said store, in and over a passage way of twenty feet wide, by and along the southerly front, and by and along the northerly side of said range or block of stores, and by and along the easterly and westerly ends of said block; reserving, however, to said Corporation, all rights of wharfage and dockage, and reserving also to said Corporation, its servants and agents, the right, at all times, of en- tering the premises, for the purpose of examining the state and condition of the foundation and walls of the same, and of making any repairs necessary for protecting the said whart, or keeping out the tide water from the cenars on the same; upon condition, however, that any buildings, which may be hereafter erected on the land under said store, shall be of stone or brick and of equal height to the present store. To Date and to Dold the afore-granted premises to mm the said Samuel Your this heirs and assigns, to his and their use and benefit forever. And the said Corporation does hereby covenant with the said tamuel Dour his heirs and assigns, that the said Corporation is lawfully seized in fee simple of the afore-granted premises; that they are free from all incumbrances that said Corporation has good right to sell and convey the same to the said Annual Dorn as aforesaid; and that the said Corporation will warrant and defend the same against the lawful claims and demands of all persons, to him the said lamuel Dorn covenants the said Samine Dorr this heirs and assigns forever. And the said Corporation also with his heirs and assigns, that said Corpora- tion will, at all times, at its proper expense, keep the said wharf in good repair, and will always, in reasonable time after notice, protect and secure the said cellars in the same, from the tide water. In Witness Whereof, the said Central Wharf and Wet Dock Corporation, by HARRISON GRAY OTIS, its President, has hereto affixed its seal, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Signed, scaled, and delivered, in presence of us. Ho Das as President of the CENTRAL WHARF AND WET Dock CORPORATION, and by or- der and in behalf of said Corporation. COUNTERSIGNED, Clerk of said Corporation Know all Men by these Presents, That the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, in consideration of three hundred dollars, paid to them by fames Augusted Dor of Boston the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to the said Worr and his heirs and assigns one lot of land in the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, in the County of Middlesex, situated on the way called Pine and numbered on the plan of said Cemetery, eleven hundred jully which plan is in the possession of the said Corporation, for inspection by the said grantee, his heirs and assigns at all sea- sonable times: the said lot of land containing nine hundred 9 lifty two superficial square feet. To Date and to Hold the aforegranted premises unto the said Dor his heirs and assigns, forever; subject, however, to the conditions and limitations, and with the privileges following, to wit: First, That the proprietor of the said lot shall have the right to enclose the same, with a wall or fence, not exceed- ing one foot in thickness, which may be placed on the adjoining land of the Corporation, exterior to the said lot; Second, That the said lot of land shall not be used for any other purpose than as a place of burial for the dead; and no trees within the lot, or border, shall be cut down or destroyed, without the consent of the Trustees of the said Corporation; Third, That the proprietor of the said lot shall have the right to erect stones, monuments, or sepulchral structures, and to cultivate trees, shrubs and plants, in the same; Fourth, The proprietor of the said lot of land shall erect, at his or her own expense, suitable landmarks of stone, or iron, at the corners thereof; and shall also cause the number thereof to be legibly and permanently marked on the premises. And if the said proprietor shall omit, for thirty days after notice, to erect such landmarks, and mark the number, the Trustees shall have authority to cause the same to be done at the expense of the said proprietor. Fifth, That if the landmarks and boundaries of the said lot shall be effaced, so that the said lot cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found and identified, the said Trustees shall set off, to the said grautee, heirs or assigns, a lot in lieu there- of, in such part of the Cemetery as they see fit, and the lot hereby granted shall, in such case, revert to the Corporation; Sixth, That if any trees or shrubs situated in said lot of land shall by means of their roots, branches, or otherwise, be- come detrimental to the adjacent lots or avenues, or dangerous or inconvenient to passengers, it shall be the duty of the said Trustees for the time being, and they shall have the right to enter into the said lot and remove the said trees and shrubs, or such parts thereof as are thus detrimental, dangerous or inconvenient; Seventh, That if any monument, or effigy, or any structure whatever, or any inscription be placed in or upon the said land, which shall be determined by the major part of the said Trustees for the time being, to be offensive or improper, the said Trustees, or the major part of them, shall have the right, and it shall be their duty, to enter upon said land, and remove the said offensive or improper object or objects. Eighth, No fence shall from time to time, or at any time, be placed or erected in or around the said lot, the materials and design of which shall not first have been approved by the Trustees, or a committee of them. Ninth, No tomb shall be constructed within the bounds of the Cemetery, except in or upon the lots situated in such parts of the grounds, as shall be designated by the Trustees for that purpose; and no proprietor shall suffer the remains of any person to be deposited in a tomb so authorized, for hire. Tenth, The said lot of land shall be holden subject to the provisions contained in an act of the General Court, dated March 31, 1835, and entitled "An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn." And the said Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn do hereby covenant to and with the said Worr his heirs and assigns, that they are lawfully seized of the aforegranted premises, and of the ways leading to the same from the highway, in fee simple ; that they are free from all incumbrances; that the Corporation have a right to sell and convey the said premises to the said Dora for the purposes above expressed ; and that they will warrant and defend the same unto the said Worr his heirs and assigns forever. In Testimony whereof, the said Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn have caused this instrument to be signed by their Treasurer and countersigned by their Secretary, and their Common Seal to be hereto affixed, the twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five Countersigned, leny th Parker Secretary. Treasurer. The Society request that all railings or inclosures of lots, may be light, neat and symmetrical,-that - all stones erected in memory of the dead, may be marble or granite,- that no slabs be placed in the Cemetery. 1.1849 ? try diar may 7. nothing was farther from my much than To suppose that you Condulted any thing birth your print hif for Lillin 3. and your lincere resulting fuling that this was two Los have when your friendship at would r r valuable 8 6 hea A When twite 4 Stucki you aught to Show your whole card what I meant was you by hicted your further to dear de for you he ought (ro, 3 to have before him all that sund which if 3 handis know inflicence his H is partyment - >ai to your true nearon H I doubh if of used the word 4 if to you Enterity mis under tood what by them I mention these thing because I would not have you think that I belivers it hospible for my listen he have any work faulty in luch a matter than a dumple want of conditionation - how at he what you ought hadas My acar listen many I do not like to take people what they ought have Jail do - delivery and it in particularly hawful to me to Countel any one to results what a duty on fuling of calls at to - I know that the through and good baile of your characting are importants to Lulia - Like care that than qualities a you are never to artray the faults of hin Character Your cannot value more highly than I do her good qualities If you would pressure your character and make if worthy ofthous who love you, never get forget even in a good impulse for another what a due to Tounding I think truth always around of as that if we huf any part of our conduct Coa Cealed from those who have an interest in it we though act just at we "thould y they chuece this whole your thank you for given confidence but me though I should heven have thought a hard thought had it been with-held lane lls not ani gudge your father- be me heg you sure to ht he make what use I choole of the knowledge you have given me - and if you will coulder that I am your brother, any father's Companion almost more their his for, L I Sincerely belrive the best friend Juny Ever had I think you with go so- my Course will be samply to take him all L. think you had better leave it to me than to do it qualify - But be it entirity as you will - I hourise you that you that thank mo of for all Your friend brother Sam P.S. I am always diffidult in advising others - I him what is night for me, what is night for them they much judge for thems day If the prising use time contains any decision for your friend on which as you day Depend much of future happened ae - in head upton it the much judge states for herself - he not think me hard Ann those only that my way of getting at with all things is plain - you You could not have a more trianteer tad countriken, for I am as amycom that % Loh should ach eighth as of your that you should was al through him -;; has (March 6th, 1836) 2. It is a pity that in the lives of great men, so meager an account is usually given of their youth and education. We like to know how they grew up -- to what influence they were exposed -- at any rate, it must be curious to see how the cultivation of this or that trait in a child may have influenced the fate of nations. I suppose Martha gives you all the news of the family. Indeed, she is a monopolizer and whoever comes after her can have but a scanty gleaning. It only re- mains for me to say that I hope you are doing well, and that I return to Cambridge tomorrow. Mr. Ware, as you said, is not going to die this time. Affectionately your son, it S. G. Ward. Note: S. G. Ward, etat 18 years, 5 months, graduated the following June. He died in 1907. Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary Gray Ward Paris, January 10, 1837. My dear Sister: I received your letter of the 3rd December & I am quite happy to stay at home this evening, a thing I rarely do by the way, and have a little causerie with you. Your budget of Boston news was exceedingly accept- able & I ought to be able to furnish you as good a one from Paris, but I am the worst person in the world to pick up news - and besides, in Paris news grows old immed- iately. The King was shot at the other day. For three hours all Paris was in a hubbub with the news. The next morning people had left off talking about it. The American ladies have been presented at Court marji this week and among them some of your acquaintance: The freedo Miss Appletons, the Walshes, the Searses and Mrs. Brooks, whose splendid complexion drew all eyes. Perhaps you have no very clear idea of what a presentation is, so I will tell you as nearly as I can make it out and I had the story from half a dozen of the ladies who were presented. The ladies, under the matronage of Mrs Cass, went to the Tueileries about 8 o'clock, and being rather late they were obliged to take one of the last rooms all the others being full. Well, there they sat or stood (January 10, 1837) 2. amusing themselves as well as they might. How long think you? Till one o'clock! At last they were pre- sented. Now you must know that the etiquette is not to speak till you are spoken to. It SO happened that Miss Mary Appleton was by some accident presented as Madame, consequently the King addressed her with "Pray Madam, how long have you been in Paris?" They say the only questions asked are that, and crossing the water. Now is it not a nice thing to be presented at court? I never sit down to write to you, my dear sister, that I do not feel an itching to be giving you some advice. You say you are reading Homer; I only wish you could read him in the original. When you have read the Iliad, let me advise you by all means to take up the Odysseys. You will find it even more entertaining. When you read any book like this which has been celebrated if you cannot discover any beauty the first time, read it again and again. some If you have read Homer in Pope's translation, read him in Stury advise of Cowper's, which I like much better. Try to understand not only the story but the spirit of the author. There is a book that will be of use to you: Coleridge's introduction to the study of the Greek classic poets. I would advise you at the same time to get Flaxman's 1llustrations of Homer from the Athenaeum and look them (January 10, 1837) 3. over as you read. I hope you will have taken my advice in regard to Miss Fuller. You will find her of the greatest service to you. There is a book you had better have, and if I think of it I will get it in England next spring: Elton's specimens of the Greek Classic poets. You will from it get a general idea of the Greek poetry, which is all you can expect. Nor do I expect you to do much in Latin, but if possible, I would read Virgil and the Odes of Horace. As for history, there will be time enough afterwards. Attend well to your Italian; I pray you read Tasso by all means. I talk to you a good deal about books because you will often find books your best friends. As a re- source they are valuable, for he who really loves books need never feel a dull hour -- but they are also the great vehicles of knowledge and refinement. I would not read novels if I were you because they take up so much time and they are so little labour to read that they give us a distaste for other books. And, of all things, don't waste your time in working worsteds. I do believe it an employment invented by the author of an evil, and it has done much harm to the the apple that (word elligers as sex as he gave to our mother Eve. Read poetry and above all, (January 10, 1833) 4. English poetry. But if I were to go on telling you what to read, I might as well send you an Athenaeum catalogue. I suppose you have heard of the science of animal magnitism. Indeed, I believe it has been making Animal program some noise in Boston lately. Well, a class of gentlemen consisting of Mr Gray, Cogswell, Sears, Paine, Dorr, Freet, Shattuck, Tom Appleton and myself have engaged a professor to give us lessons and show us experiments, & we are determined to see what Yankee inganuity can do toward finding out the truth of the matter. Mr Perit is to be here in the course of the week. He goes to Italy with Mr and Mrs Chester. He sent very kindly to ask me to go with them, but I think I can em- ploy myself better in the north this winter. mary draws I am very glad to hear what you say about your drawing and the boys, keep it up by all means. In the box I sent home you will find some excellent drawing copies. I do hope my little sketches may arrive safe, as indeed I doubt not they will, in spite of the delay. They are most valuable to me, as the memory of some very, very happy days. I shall make plenty more next year. it Borton September 27 821 mydear Genge, I have for come ano intended to hand ova to zm your balance in my hands, but carcerme lances have delayed it. not knowing what you might weil, to do in know enclose your Y/L to this date thouing to your hedet 20. 400 dollars, which, if apreally to you Saira hand you in artificate for thefollowing Itocker in you name, and cash to make us 12a amount Hany there thousd -net that you Deirazone you the cash, or that tocks initial. one, Ithuch the investment agood in or if nothing untoward occur, likely To give you an income d1500 dollars, timore if mammpasting thousand be he Altable . your truly Twown jay. swiders, herbaline theme Bank of commerce 35thanes. x3500. Janidlaly. 255 united states 5/1cc 20 " 2000 Do. 100 intland Hace 10 " 1000 June. Dec on 60 merchand Inscc CO. 10 " 1300 apiril october Noncept RR 150 10 " 20 2000 lavy. July. 120 lastern er " themmack C. 3 a 1200 3600 June, Dear 2000 farry July 140 360 Hander Co, 2. " 750. 1500 June. Dar 120 abbleton co. 2 " 750. 1500 June , Dev .:120 Dursht . co' 2 " 800. 1600 Lune. Dev. i 120 Both - 400 $ 20.400 Ky 1545. ree Cinard, Form. 4 Catermia soon haly 10 1x47 Dear John, I ees He by cut name A lent you nill hading d last see her Rambour lines which are have had nothing of interest but very hr wealth have no COPY of my last am Home nor neen in seard since let us know Lowyon heal what you wish 1 what you think + - mobeany payses terms lat accounts you - May what you work one 4 do in any ways I have well forceded a atter to range. a have taken we wha copy of t. which Iscand to ym en e inch. 21 at will iane writing same of the isone things No you - & you will loles to 10 at. Medollon 4/2 sermines better. the more there is of the nowing as. MAME daily se - 1 all, we have very ush labour. the nov wathree how we me to at drompan at without a period, become we seem to have more thindles than are counter. d itwice take leave x. the increase of homelation a - still, om nowth is very great true have all the Kemants property in Monerstore you absers corry 9 my balance that you work, all Look well, - The Harkies to encrease its capital 25 an cart. & the hear stock eires as 10 July 1847 guren to Hockholders at a years credit antholt interest. which biggent algh - .10 that the white, stock may as cann and as worth 94 in to we as of the new crock is taken without any memeno Lovths is, at a take d. 1 , Hall not lake A, Las - we have enough 1 althe came ame Jam, ead a snowthack 4 made, because at is wanted Lacad Lails benefit all dus. - Yam/tocks look well, all of terms - The Essex is mid to have been and 5% at 100hescant - mooneech $6 durden medden 120 - and 4 Non cabot & Dee of as durided 4 - others alrayat money is too abundant d w may have a change pressure - I have determined not to in were tony the am on/my stock Lactair but sa nd sell. 1 I kall such m are are com money if an hold on to at 1 William gray ( the Lawyer) is to he heamer of the attantic milks d is than 3mg w 1.year. 4mm the 2'year - x attorward I yas) This eyes prevent his reading. d the air of the was count houses hurts his health. Ihana with hair up the Bay state in fall. & theath the , asp "fan as Ican x the Essex in full sasic 1 was Kane ame nothing about leaving my ag in of 3 houed 1 in May that I would at to havings to take in the gen thmon [10 July1847] Ihave moneened to you 1 best creating falt 10 much hurt at the idea of having any other hown over him but myself. d thought he must Leave 4 at should area - that , have deferred doing any iting about at a find my balance sheet usa unlyine a kness copy. 1 10 Ido nor 100m me 1 you know methy nearly how at Hands Mall want to do avy thing in you house that I an, d that beglad of any suggest leass to after to my securi about shepment on otherwise and , thall ange on m is ato to de author narings can to help along good harmes. David lean has gone to Engle / willard layler having accumulated near a million dollars, and math 2 document nome in memont Row to build at bigger went home to tea ,d died before bed time of - m Isones 4 kong das wife have gone to England to make a hat vust Beluw me eva your Engis 15mg Ltd tarm would coron take my TW want gross amakeag is to dwide 25/hureant main Hock in august. Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. Dresden, November 1, 1837. My dear little Sister, I received this morning a letter from you (Sept. 28) and on the same sheet one from George. Tell George his letter gave me great pleasure and I mean to answer it soon. Your letters today were a great relief to me though they do not free me from anxiety. I shall hope for better and better news every packet. Bless my dear sister! How I wish I could be with her, and cheer her, talk to her, and read to her, and all that a brother might do, during her slow recovery. But it will make us all feel, my dear Mary, how much we are to one another. And my dear mother, too, what a time of trial it must have been to herl My main object in writing to you. just now, love, mary leares is to answer what you say about leaving school. I school. would be very glad you should leave school if you em- ploy your time better at home, and this I am quite sure you may do if you take the right means. But do not, I pray, think you are to study less because you leave school; I hope on the contrary you may study more (November 1, 1837) 2. only it will be in a different way. It would be happiness enough to help you in all this, to read with you, and talk with you from day to day, and that I look forward to next spring, but at present it cannot be -- I shall be abroad all winter. But I will write to you fully as often as I can, and I beg you will make a point of writing to me every week -- not merely the news of the day, though I like to hear that and you tell it remarkably well, but about your- self; keep a sort of journal of every day and send it to me. Do not fear to be too minute -- whatever you read, whoever you talk to, particularly everything you are attracted by or drawn to, either persons of books, or natural objects or works of art. When you make a drawing tell me about it -- what is the subject -- whether the feeling of the scene is well expressed. It is a very common-place excuse, and one I am happy to say you never make, that there is nothing to write about. To one who goes about with his eyes open, every- thing is full of interest. The simplest flower you pluck in the fields what a story may it tell you, of the time it was hidden in the earth, or when it first felt the warmth of the sun and sprang into the (November 1, 1837) 3. sight of the blue sky. Then what grace and beauty do you find in their forms! What perfect fitness which is beauty -- in the arrowheaded form it thrusts above the earth, in the feathered barb that flies off to scatter the seed! No face is so common that we may not trace some meaning or beauty in its lines. If we are not amused or interested in this world the fault is not in objects around us, but in ourselves. There is no mood of mind so really vulgar as ennui. Above all things, in your studies you will find method of the greatest use. Make it a rule to rise at six, or at seven, walk an hour, or study an hour before breakfast. You devote so many hours, say from 9 to 12 invariably to reading -- SO long to drawing -- etc. In order that you may do this properly, you should con- fine yourself to your own room (about which too I will tell you my notions sometime soon). And to this end I hope you may have a room to yourself, with a fire when necessary. So important do I think this that there is hardly any of my own comforts I would not give up that you might have it. It is impossible to study well when you are liable to interruption. (November 1, 1837) 4. So much for a beginning -- I will write you often, and fully, and I hope you will do the same to me. You will not often find my letters so material as this. Affectionately yours, S. G. Ward. Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. London, November 8, 1836. My dear little Sister, I hope that you have all my letters safe and also my sketches in Wales and in the North; take good care of these last, for though they would be of little value to any one else they will be of the greatest to me. They are generally pretty faithful and I only wish there were more, but we travelled so fast that ten minutes was the average time allowed me. You may, if you please, show them to my friend Miss Fuller, and tell her what you know of the places where they were taken. And by the way, this is one reason of my writing to you now. You tell me that Miss Fuller is coming to Boston to give lessons in the languages, and I wish you by all means to take the opportunity of being with her. She not only has read more than any woman of my acquaintance but understands more thoroughly the spirit of the German and Italian literatures than any one I know. But whether or not you study German or Italian with her, make her if you can your friend; talk with her and consult her on any subject from a ribband to your Bible. I am sure you will find her a most delight- ful acquaintance and with a universality of knowledge that will surprise you. As to what you should study, I shoul say by all means German if you can find time. You will have more lasting and greater pleasure from German literature than any other. But next to German, or perhaps before it, attend to English and here also you will find my friend a most accomplished guide. German is a most fascinating study, but you will find in no language anything superior to the masterpieces in English. Italian is very well, but in Italian you must exercise great selection -- the best is there so mixed up with the worst, and though you may hereafter derive great pleasure from it, I hardly think you old enough (excuse my presumption1) to understand its beauty; it is a later taste. French is necessary as a language, but, with some exception of course, the clearer you steer of its literature the better. Yesterday I was at Hampstead where Mrs. Farrar has been staying with some friends of hers, and I was introduced there to Miss Aiken, the sister of Mrs. Barbauld and to Mrs. Joanna Baillie. Miss Aiken I did not much fancy; she is vivacious and entertaining but there is a roughness about her that did not attract at all. Mrs. Baillie is a very delightful old lady with such a sweet face that you like her directly. (November 8, 1836) 3. The authors and authoresses of Great Britain are about getting up a petition to Congress that they may have the power of taking out copyright in America -- a thing which I much hope may be accomplished. The compayat law as it stands prevents English authors from getting their fair earnings, and by flooding America with dirt- cheap literature prevents our own from improving. An American publisher may print for nothing any English book he pleases, but he must pay for American books. Fuller? One word more of advice about your friend she is clever and must be a most amusing acquaintance, but there is a want of truth and of good feeling about her I should be much afraid of. How can a man touch pitch and not be defiled? Excuse my sermonizing! It is only that I take so great an interest in you and expect to hear from you! Write to me as often as you can and tell me everything, no matter how trifling it may be! I send love to all and a kiss for my dear parents. God bless you and farewell. S. G. 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(note to typist: insert year date in this and similar beginnings hereafter.) rusz, When Edward Dorr dame out the times were changing. The intense religious spirit of the early Puritan days is rich, God's presence seemed so near and his ordering so direct. This feeling was giving way to a more normal state, although the principles remained the same. My father had read to me already as a child John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. When I rebelled, as I remember well, when the two pilgrims are cast into the dungeon of Giant Despair, I would then hear no more, though my father told me they had gotten safely out; and itwas not until I could read myself that I followed them further on. It was all very real to me and became an allegory only much later on. There were some excellent steel engravings in the copy that I had and in the old ones that came down to me from a generation earlier and one picture that I recall especially showed Christian and his companions, two pilgrims with the r staffs in hand, first behond, as yet far off and high, the Heavenly City, with its towers and ramparts all bathed in glorious light. 2. And I imagine Iwas nearer to the true spirit of my Pilgrim forbears in receiving it all as simple fact, true narrative of a true experience, than anyone can be today, looking on it as an allegory. And so it was to Bunyan, too, no doubt, who raised no question as to how it came about or on what evidence it rested. He needed none and therein lay his faith. It was not to be argued about; it simply was. And such is the history of all whohave had great faith,whatever their religion or their creed, who have felt God's presence. But to return to Edward Dorr and his time. From generation to generation the change was rapid. It needed but the span of a few long lives to bring men's outlook to my own times in which so great a change has come about that I can only look at it with wonder. Two lives as long as mine 214 is n ow would span the change, with NEW its opening on the new universe of which we know rather what is not than we do what is. Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. New York. 1839. My dear Mary, I had a pleasant sail on here -- as fine a night as need be; on arriving found my father gone, whom I had half expected to see, but all very comfortable, and when I was put in possession of the wardrobe keys new york I was like Robinson Crusoe, the lord of all I surveyed. wards I dined at Mr. Ward's yesterday. All well, and the young ladies enquiring, as well as their father, with the kindest affection after you, whom they seem to consider as another sister, if not something more. I had a long talk with Henry last night whom I find just the same (no, not just the same, for he is more considerate than I ever knew him) but with all his warmth and good qualities the same as ever. All find it very dark after Newport, and the loss of Mr. Cogswell he ought not to have gone away just now -- is severely felt by the young ones who have no one to supply his place, and now that Marion is away and Sam going, they feel lonely enough. Will you have the kindness to take a black dress coat from my closet, pack it carefully and send it by . Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. I should think you might have acknowledged receipt of your steed. But n'importe -- when people don't write I am sure they are enjoying of S.C.W. themselves. Mr. and Mrs. . Ticknor expect to go to Newport Ticknor's for a few days next Saturday. They are to live in the country somewhere near Dr. Channing. Anna Ticknor is in doubt but thinks that she shall go to Chicopee. This volume I promised Miss Julia to send to Newport. Will you have the kindness to give it to her with my respects. As to news, is there not Martha's letter en- closed! So Addioi Ever affectionately, S. G. W. Miss Mary G. Ward. Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. New York. (1839 My dear little sister, I was delighted to receive your note this morning and to hear so much good of all the dear ones at home, and most of all to hear of your studies. For myself, I shut my books in despair. I am like a magician whose books some invisible spirit shuts as fast as he opens them, and all his spells are naught. I see few people, have been at the Goodhues' two or three times, and throw them all into consternation the other day by running away before my father, purely because I was tired to death of saying nothing and hear- ing nothing but banks. But they are dear kind people and I love them with all my heart. Then I have been once or twice to the Wards. Sam with all his oddity is as 3 good a fellow as ever lived and we are great friends. Julia is very sweet and interesting and looks much as she used to, and the little girls are charming and I long to make acquaintance with children more than with grown people. Dr. Trainer is too queer; he makes me long to knock him down. I have to come off my dignity with what little there is left of it immediately. Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. New Orleans, Jan'y 6th. 1839. My dear Mary, I received yesterday the letters which came by ship and among them was very glad to find two of yours, and there was one from George too - but does John in his new great coat forget his promises? I am really sorry that those letters were not sent by the ordinary mail, for they would have been here twenty days ago, and I would have given much to have had them on my arrival. I think a good deal more of home here than I used to when I was in Europe. I am glad that you go on with your studies, You must already take pleasure in them and find that books that were tasks to the girl become the friends of the woman, and better friends than these silent ones that give so much and require so little you will not often find. It is well to learn to read Dante; still, his severe concise style, both of words and thoughts, is less suited to a growing mind than a mature one. I send you, probably with this letter, a book which I think you will like very much, the works of A. de Vigny, which I have been reading myself. His Cinq Mars is one of In GBD's library. (Jan'y 6th, 1839) 4. I need not repeat messages of love. I have you all before me now, and can almost place each in his chair, and Mammy upon her sofa. Her pecans I have got, and they will go forward immediately; not many, for they are both scarce and dear; and if I can get them I mean to send a few sugar canes to the boys. Ever affectionately yours, S. G. Ward. Write, write always, my dear, and with more particulars. Tell me of where you were yesterday, who was there, who charmed you or displeased you. Your observations on everything that you read, say or hear. This will bring much of pleasure to me and I am very sure not less to you. This is for me one of the great pleasures of life -- to have someone to whom I can speak freely all that comes to my mind, and believe that I concern myself in all that regards you. Samuel G. Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. Mobile, February 22, 1839. My dear Mary, I have here a few days looking about, and I suppose that before I go you will like to know what sort of a place this Mobile is. You know how New Orleans is situated within four miles of Lake Pont- chartrain? Well, you embark on the lake and have a sail about as long as from Providence to New York. It was almost the first time I had set foot out of New Orleans since I arrived, and this made the voyage 4 and the free horizon very agreeable, although the shores of the lake, like all the rest of this country, are flat and uninteresting. This town is about as large as Salem and bears about the same relation to New Orleans that Salem does to Boston. It is not so gay and stirring and fashionable as New Orleans, nor has it such an intermixture of half a dozen different nations; its population comes mainly from North and East, and that 3 gives more of a northern character to the place. The weather has been like our mildest May weather, the peach trees in full bloom, violets covering the ground, and yellow jessamine growing wild all about in (February 22, 1839) 2. the woods. The trees are so many of them evergreens that when you walk among them you see no signs of winter; the principal part here are pines. There are a great many evergreen oaks and hollies, and magnolias, different from any you ever saw, which grow into trees as large as our Elms, with dark glossy green leaves as large almost as this page. I am as well as possible. Mr. Austin thinks we shall get through this year SO as to leave early in May, and I count that by the first of June we shall all be together again. From all I hear of your studies and diligence, what an improvement I shall find! -- if, indeed, there was room. You are just at the right age now for the mind to embrace whatever it takes hold of with the greatest vigor. I wish you would tell me your impressions ! I should be most glad to hear them and to write you in return about them; and my experience, small as it has been, might be of use to you. Write always with the most perfect freedom. My affectionate love to dear Mother and Martha and all, and believe me ever Your friend and brother, S. G. W. Aury Ward- april 8. 1840. 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Ward to his sister, Mary G. Ward. 40 New York, June 21, 1336. My dear Mary, I put this parcel under your especial charge to be delivered to Miss Fuller. You will probably see her on Wednesday. And now, as I sail day after tomorrow and shall not probably be able to write again, I bid you affec- tionate farewell. I have seen a good deal of Henry and all promises well; this is an important step of his, and 1f he conducts well will be the making of him. We can only wait and look to the future. The girls seem well and happy. Your brother, Sam G. W. Sunday Evening. t From: Mary 6,ward July 7. 1840 - nautucket , Luly My amount dorn Twinting ingle Hue m me at what seems hb the Antili end matin water very there and way phen sand Tanly it in a change place and a providing people though how waland of good mith I know mL 4 M get the high new Bedford M about hay park two and aid rol nach his till five this afternoon. 1 fifter having Boods Hole the Hoodville " In it 3 ii how called no found millow ually at lea, and the naver dicked mL in Include - Mattern mm an Life information their white Caps gain ns but a rough hining the shole founage and to now hay the passinger - they ucafu h considered marriland. Irm much Imprisch to lie such h huge c sandback and m 200k no hus, rithing to Whin its thining appearance, hah famel of Woodm houles. Tony thing haver him its functionity how, and the hyd of the people partying from the two in then mils I have mathed form There been how, lum to me try agreement him that of the people m the main - land no thought thing I have Seen yet in a Rantmitht Calard that in a small mood eat as the shd call it long mugh to hold hay a drow chand and hay a down people In them then are Annonly me how and unk go at and and chamipeoph and at the quatest tato in Moutha Iam to mill not whom bylen mill read by land through of Physionth n to how they arrive is Granting unti in still they future th to the is may have here on Friday, the in a chance that Inde Show detained till Monday much hasts for my father the glad h hear from W me waiting for my letter. still have ii one of the heatest and but Dept hanks I have low been in and me are an comfortable as hounth- New York, Thursday, Oct. 1, 1840/ Dear Sam, I am glad to have it in my power on the eve of your nuptials to send you such good news as that Harry continues steadily to improve. Although he has still to combat with moments of great weakness he is almost fairly out of danger, having the full possession of his reason and what we consider a most favorable symptom, being at times sufficiently cross. Please present your fair lady, when she becomes so, with my compliments and best wishes, and receive dear Sam my sincere congratulations on your approaching good fortune and happiness. Ever most truly yours, F. Marion Ward. 3 The uncem ortable position in which my leg still detains Me must excuse my chirography. My best respects to all in Park Street. S capina are 104/05 R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 New York. Jan'y 2d, 1877. Hon. Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University. Dear Sir: Our late father, Thomas W. Ward, deceased in 1858, for many years Treasurer of Harvard College, by his will left to the College Library the sun of Five Thousand dollars together with his portrait by W. Page. The legacy was duly paid, but the portrait remained with his widow who survived him many years. We now in compliance with the provisions of his will beg respect- fully to inform you that the picture will be forwarded to you by Messrs Williams & Everett free of all expense, and we annex at foot the extract of the will of the de- ceased having reference to the same. We are, dear Sir, With great respect, Truly yours, (Sgd) Samuel G. Ward 11 George Cabot Ward. "As I have hitherto devoted much of my time and money to public objects and institutions and to the concerns of individuals and shall continue to do so while (Jan'y 2d, 1877) 2. I live, I do not think it necessary to give largely at my decease, but there being a few of those objects and institutions in which I have always taken an interest I do hereby give end bequeath to the President and Fellows of Harvard College (of which corporation I was twelve years Treasurer,) the sum of Five thousand dollars, the income thereof to be annually expended in the purchase of books. I also give to said President and Fellows of Hervard College my portrait by Page, and the volume containing my account of my administration as Treasurer of that institution." R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 021.6 Copy of Bond of Thomas Wren Ward (and others) at time he was Treasurer of the President and Fellows at Harvard College Know all men by these presents that we, Thomas Wren Ward of Boston in the County of Suffolk as principal, and Samuel C. Gray, Francis C. Gray, William Appleton, and William Sturgis, Esquires of the same Boston, and Jonathan Goodhue of the City of New York, Esquire, as sureties, are holden and stand firmly bound to the President and Fellows of Harvard College in the sums respectively, - viz: The said Thomas Wren Ward in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, - and the said Samuel C. Gray, Francis C. Gray, William Appleton, William Sturgis, and Jonathan Goodhue, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars each, to be paid to the said president and fellows or their assigns to which payment to be well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators severally and firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals dated this first day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty one. [ali/1841] The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the said Thomas Wren Ward is treasurer to the said President Tand Fellows of Harvard College, - now, if he shall well and faithfully perform all the duties incumbent on him in the said office of treasurer for and during the term of three years, if he shall so long hold the same, then this obligation shall be void, but otherwise shall remain in full force and virtue. Lydia G Ward witness to the signature cf T. W. Ward. Witness to the signature of Jonathan Goodhue Robert C. Goodhue Franklin H. Story witness to the signatures of Sam'1 C. Gray Wm Appleton Wm Sturgis Charles H. Pierce witness to the signature of F. C. Gray R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward. Lenox, August 22nd, 1844. My dear Father, It has been our object in looking about the country here to find a suitable situation for a permanent resi- dence, united with a good farm. And we are now consider- ing a place about two miles from the village, which seems to combine all that we are in search of. It is a farm of about 150 acres situated on Stockbridge Pond, a fine sheet of water about three miles round. The ground rises from the lake for about a half a mile to the highest part of the farm, looking towards the south and west. The prospect and situation are remarkably fine and it is well known as one of the best farms in the neighborhood. The price asked is $5000, that is from thirty to thirty-three dollars an acre, and perhaps less would buy it, though this is considered but a moderate price. But I shall do nothing until I have examined farther, written you again, and heard from you. In the meantime, I have most disinterested and well-informed 3 advisers here in Mr. Sedgwick, Judge Walker, and other persons who have lived here always. Your affectionate son, Sam G. Ward. of Thomas W. Ward to his sons John and George. Boston, December 9th, 1844. Dear Boys, I have requested Mr Story to have transferre to you the following stocks, viz.: 1 share in Merrimack l If " Hamilton 1 " " Boott I 11 " Cabot l If 11 Amoskeag 1 11 If Stark 1 11 11 Massachusetts 1 11 II Dwight 20 " " Bank of Commerce and to take receipts of you as before for ten thousand dollars more, making $20,000 each. You will then each of you, and Sam, stand charged with $20,000 in my books, and I wish you to consider this capital as if it had been earned by yourselves - easy to increase as you come to have knowledge and experience, but difficult to create if you had to begin anew. I see no necessity (December 9th, 1844). 2. for your losing in order to know how to keep your property, although it is often the case that exper- ience is only to be gained by suffering. You know my habits and rules of business and of life, but I may be excused for offering a few remarks as I very rarely have troubled you in this way. Keep clear of transactions with rogues or men of doubtful character! Have connections only with the best people, and the safest. Take pains to acquire and keep an accurate know- ledge of all whom you have dealings with and avoid those who are over-sanguine and extend themselves out of their regular business. Neither borrow nor lend, nor lend your names, nor become responsible for others in any way. I think this a good general rule, and particularly I think it due to me from yourselves and Sam that you incur no personal responsibilities for others without my consent until your property shall be such as to make you independent and able to do it from your own resources. Adhere to all safe rules of business and do not be afraid to say no on all proper occasions. (December 9th, 1844) 3. Keep your money drawing interest safely always when not in use, and keep it at the same time avail- able and easily convertible. Spare no labour and pains to acquire a full know- ledge of your own business and everything pertaining to it, and how to do your business in the best manner. Treat all with kindness, courtesy, liberality and full justice, thereby establishing your character on the strongest basis, that of capacity, within and of your- selves, to take care of yourselves and to be useful to others. Leave no concerns unsettled longer than is neces- sary; settle up everything that will admit of it. Let safety be your motto, sat cito, si sat bene -- quick enough, if well enough. Small and safe gains are desirable and are the best brokerage business for the best people. Let your expenses be small and your wants few; this is an easy way of making a fortune, and the luxury of feeling independent and safe and out of debt can be had at a great bargain by simply following those rules which are necessary for your health, comfort and happiness. (December 9th, 1844) 4. Take all cautions beforehand; prevention is better than cure, and better to learn if we can without the suffering. There should be no secrets between us, nor jealousy of one another, but a willingness and desire, showing itself in actions, to do what we can to promote the happiness of each other. I recommend to your care not to overvalue your stocks in your Books while above par, and when per- manently below par, put them down at once to their actual value, and so of other property -- I never let it remain in my books at more than its actual value. I could add another sheet, but do not think it necessary. Affectionately yours, T. W. Ward. To John G. Ward George C. Ward, Boston. Samuel G. Ward to his father Thomas W. Ward. Highwood Decr 1st. 1845. My dearest father, I write from our new home, whose name you see above! I am very happy to learn that the animals have arrived in good condition; from their long passage I began to fear they must have suffered. I have. no doubt you would be a good farmer! There is such variety and simplicity, such an adaptation of means to ends, such room for the exercise of ingenuity and contrivance, as well as for the cultivation of patience and perseverance, that I find an endless interest in it. I am not a little proud of my success this year. In spite of all disadvantages, my farm will have paid an interest over and above expenses. That is but a trifle to be sure, but it indicates the power to do the thing, and so it is a lawful source of satisfaction! I sign and return the receipt for $5000. This indulgence on your part was wholly unexpected. It is useless to regret that I can do so little to show my sense of your kindness and consideration. Your affectionate son Sam. Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward Lenox Ap'l 30th, 1846. My dearest father: It will be early for Nahant for a month to come and we hope that some of you may be induced to come here. We have had perfect weather for the past month & have hardly had any fires. Perhaps we ought to expect a wet May; in fact, if we do not, we farmers shall be ill off for hay. You have no idea what a source of gratification your Agricultural presents have been. The cow is as good as an A 1 correspondent that always remits in season, and has all the points of a perfect cow. The Bull shambles about on his ricketty hoofs which are about coming off. In a month no doubt he will be well of them. There is no doubt about the great value of plows; my men seem as well satisfied of it as I am. I shall always use them hereafter. I hope when you come you will stay long enough to get interest- ed in all these things. I have got all my fences, gates &C done and at a less cost than I allowed, about $300 in all. It is slow work getting things to a state of neatness, having all the regular things to attend to besides. 2. April 30, 1846. The children are getting off their white cheeks & putting on the brown, and talk a great deal of grandpa & grandma. With best love to all I am, Yours most affectionately Sam G. W. Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward. Lenox, December 7, 1847. My dear Father, I enclose Little & Brown's bill for books. You will see that it contains only a portion of the books of which I showed you a memorandum. I found that to get all I wanted in satisfactory editions would cost more than seemed suitable, & I have therefore confined myself within the amount named on the memo, which gives me an excellent collection of Latin & Greek books & dictionaries, and a few Italian & critical works. These are all in good editions and well bound. Though this forms no exception to your constant kindness, it gives me an occasion to express my sense of it. Tom seems just as well as anybody else. He is studying his Latin & Greek regularly with me. But it will require regular and hard study without inter- ruption to prepare him for college next summer. I do not know how far you consider college desirable for him. (December 7, 1847) 2. We are all well and happy. Little Tommy* perfect- ly stout, hearty & active. We flatter ourselves he shows some signs of speech. Baby+ is fat and well. I shall not be surprised if she looks like her Grandmother Barker. Anna sends best love, & I remain always Affectionately yours, Sam G. W. * Still living, and the oldest Harvard graduate in 1939, at the age of 92. Elizabeth, later the Baroness Schönberg, whose marriage and life abroad is told of elsewhere. Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward. Lenox, Sunday, Aug. 8, '47. My dear Father, We returned from the wilds last night in high health and spirits, having been fifteen days from home. We traversed the country which lies between Amsterdam on the Mohawk and the upper end of Lake George, about 150 miles, for the most part absolutely wild country with no inhabitants but Moose, Deer, Bears, Wolves, &C. We passed through Lake Pleasant, Round Lake, Racket* Lake, Crocket Lake, Long Lake, and others which are beautiful basins among the mountains from 5 to 20 miles in length, the lakes and streams filled with trout and other fish, and on to the Adirondack Iron Works at the foot of Mount Marcy. Here is made on a small scale the best steel iron in the country, said to be equal to that of the celebrated Dannemora mines in Sweden. The iron sells at 110$ to 120$ at Lake Champlain. They are preparing to manufacture it on a large scale. The ore is inex- haustible as well as the timber. Such fine trees I have never seen, many being from 150 to 175 feet high, and cutting plank 4 or 5 feet wide. Racquette. August 8, 1847 2. The scenery is beautiful, in some parts very grand. The weather has been perfect all the time; only one Shower and that at night. We camped out at night, and lived on our own game. I am very happy to hear you have found such a pleasant place at Seconnet; I know the ground well, having been fishing there, but that was before the house was built. With best love to all Most affectionately Yours Sam G. W. Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward. Private Lenox, September 3, 1848. My dear Father, I have yours of Friday, and had another previous- ly by Tom, with copy of one written to Mr. Appleton. Our friends, Baring Brothers & Co., seem at last to treat the matter of your retirement with sufficient attention, but I do not see that anything can be done till they write you the result of their "September deliberations". And indeed I do not see that any- - thing they may decide upon can affect your position at all. I look forward to your emancipation and your getting "time to come to Berkshire", as a new era in your life, and a great source of satisfaction to myself. I hope you may get time to come and see us be- fore the leaves fall. With best love to all, Most affectionately your son, Sam'l G. W. from m 1 SHIN (January 4, 1849) 2. First To" Be constantly distrustful of yourself. I think what you have to subdue is your strong will, long self-indulgent habits, inordinate self estimation, and want of consideration for others, except so far as contributes to your own self consequence. Be natural in thought, in speech, and in action, and correct your views as to money and expendi- ture, and the uses of money, which are all wrong, and the cause of much evil. I write not to pain or to discourage, but in much kindness and confidence. All may be made right; what I wish is to warn and caution you to have you feel its great importance. I could wish you to read this often and to study every part of it. If it were my last legacy I should not alter it. I omit a thousand things. You know them all. The great root must be in religious and moral principles, right conduct from right motives, and followed out in every thing. Bring your strong will to bear on yourself. It is in your power to do much for me. Need I say that you are my great cause of solicitude? No doubt I have erred, but let us bend our strength to make ourselves right in the future. Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward. No original Lenox, 15 May 1849. My dear father, I have your kind letter of yesterday mentioning Mr Gray's conclusion. I suppose that he could not feel sure that a joint agency would work right, and in fact there seems to be a practical difficulty. Thank you for mentioning the Merrimack. Of course I should prefer not to keep any stock until my balance is paid up, so I shall be much obliged to Mr. Story to have it disposed of for me, by your taking it, or in any other way. I shall want some money by the 1st of next month. We are all well. Mary mentions Mr Bates's magnificent doings which give me the greatest pleasure as indicating the value set upon your services, and that they have been appreciated and felt. Yours most affectionately Sam G. W. Horace Gray, who, being consulted, declined to consider becoming a joint agent, with Samuel G. Ward, for Baring Brothers & Company. To: George 1849 From: Des Sir, Baston aug 24.5% business l and propage l to enter your concurrence have to request into will carn homes, about ho that some established in become a my which he to Johnson money dollars should interest they g the two thousand work hard c he to it entirely acid I give to day without think myself Idain for myself myself any Participating that imputer, l talent to Morning suck a afficiently situation accur should useful coulds in am histo be to they i preference house, be acting connected as agents with would for Rosne a pranafacting company know any ran mind & to as giving the best promise Judge what was best for me to do of permanent inecen and AS requiring rather application should grow influence oz compert the point out so energy or talents & efendiness than any particular you any opening in a house my object is to have a regular occupation and I should he glad to in any other regular avail of the above description business no to earn a wha Irrate living Non and I am will probably myself of your assistance think that I have not I do not feel in myself fixedness enough In but commence either Intent or including such eng agements, my to build up or he interested own openion as very mode and in have l forming think should a new Lohe Lonce have decided that I should, he constant how and that I any such plans an his return with am Got hasting in being i willing to hind myself 1 him my would rather th and connexion of hum he mine have no views alterior to impediment Raw any advantage these expressed above l have should the above plans wanted that long in order to prove impracticable as seem, in me more Chan Irabelle c Ipropore h commence business as a simple and bona. fide broker In this way I could assure anyself a moderate & fixed income which and occupation which is all I wish I feel very strong by that my education A tecnically, is how finished, and that the continuance of it any longer, indefendently he without value & of an active profession water detrimental so a Anant me as a man of foe active life. Very respectfully yours John G. Ward to Thomas W. Ward & John From: (End of May, 1350) . My dear Father, When a man has been going wrong for a good while it is like moving a mountain for him to begin to go right. I feel that I owe it to you to tell you very frankly how I am situated, and though it may give you pain I do not know any other way in which I can place myself in 2. true relation to you and give the assurance that I would give that I am now willing to do everything to get right. The truth of the matter is simply this: Ever since I grew us my habits have been careless and knowing that I was surrounded by persons who would disap- - prove not only of my way of life but of my way of thinking and the principles (or want of principles) that I followed, I got into a way of concealment; and being always afraid of hurting people's feelings, or making them suffer, I went on from little to more until I suppose you have been in a state of ignorance of most things about me up to this time. This state of mind and mode of life were of course the most unfavorable to enable me to break through any wrong habits, and when -- owing to some unfortunate circumstances -- I found myself very wretched These undoubtedly were, though he says nothing of it himself, the breaking of his engagement with Louisa Ward. (May, 1850) 2. and unhappy and took to drinking, I had by my habits of secrecy cut myself off from many of the safeguards that surround other men. Added to this, my head was strong and constitution good, so that I could remain a long time under the influence of liquor without necessar- ily betraying myself. Joining to my other difficulties the habit of opium-taking, you will not be surprised at anything that may have appeared out of the way in my conduct. I am obliged to confess, also, that up to this time I have not been able with all my efforts to break through these insane habits. Sam tells me, and I believe he is right, that my only chance is to begin at the beginning and throw aside all this concealment from you who have a right to know, and to make all future plans of life or business secondary to this great one of making myself right. I have learned that change of place brings no relief; and it seems to me that having made this frank confession and secured thereby your sympathy, and made you a sort of ally against myself, that I shall have taken a great and necessary step towards my cure. You will easily comprehend the morbid sensitiveness under which I labor in making this confession and that it would be impossible for me (May, 1850) 3. to speak at this time with you upon these subjects. I shall know, without your saying it, the feeling of your sympathy. This avowal will be the guarantee of the earnestness with which I mean to devote myself to the change. J. G. W. Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward. Private London, November 1, 1850. My dear Father, I do not know that I have anything of consequence to say about our affairs since I wrote by the Atlantic. I go into the office every morning & spend an hour or more, talking about anything that comes up and looking into the machinery of the Compting House. I have seen a good deal of Mr. Bates, but Mr. Baring only returned to town yesterday, and I have had no farther conversa- tion with him. I shall improve my opportunities of getting acquainted with him, & we shall understand each other all in due time. Meantime, I do not wish to be in a hurry but to take all easily and naturally & though I mean to sail in the Niagara if I am ready, I have said nothing about it & shall wait till I have said & heard all that is requisite. I fancy our friends here are looking a good way ahead to see how things will arrange themselves in the future and until I have a good talk with Mr. Baring and know what he is think- 3 ing of, I shall not see much farther. Samuel G. Ward to his father, Thomas W. Ward. P. Niagara. London, November 8, 1850. My dear Father, When I wrote by the last steamer I hoped to have returned by this, but Mr. Baring has been out of town until yesterday, and as Mr. Bates rather referred me to him and I myself wanted to get acquainted with him, I had not had much conversation about the affairs of the agency. Last evening I dined with him at his club and breakfasted with him at his house today, and have had a good talk upon matters and things, and in every way satisfactory. I could not leave today with- out feeling in a hurry, and as things might come up to be talked over after I was gone and I may not be here again for a long time, it seems best to take what time is necessary. I called on Mr. Peabody*, who is very civil; he has a touch of rheumatic gout, and does not look very well. Herries, Farquhar & Co. appear to have a high standing, but Mr. Peabody did not seem to know par- ticularly about them. Mr. Bates says they are all right for the travelling credits, which is what they propose to do. Mr. George Peabody of Salem who established in London the banking business which ultimately became J. S. Morgan & Co. through Mr. Peabody's taking in to aid him Mr. Junius S. Morgan of Hartford, Conn., but at the time a partner in the dry goods house of Beebe & Co. in Boston. (November 1, 1850) 2. The Lawrences* are not particularly intimate with our friends. I called on Mr. Lawrence who was very kind, & I saw also Mrs. Lawrence and Kitty and the Rotchs***, and I shall probably dine with and visit them. All looks well now. Yours most affectionately, Sam G. W. Abbott Lawrence of Boston, at this time Minister to England. Kitty was Mr. Lawrence's younger daughter who later married Augustus Lowell and was the mother of Percival Lowell, the astronomer, and Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard, succeeding President Eliot. The older daughter at that time had already married Benjamin Rotch of an old New Bedford family, who was abroad at that time studying art. Whomas W. Ward to John G. Ward Dight Boston, August 26, 1852. My dear John, On my return from an excursion with your mother, I found your letter of 31 July and notice your intention to pass a year in Vienna. Many of the European capitals seem to present whatever is required for the cultivation of all tastes in a quiet and agreeable manner. I note what you say of Shakespeare, which is quite just. I have lately taken up the Life and Letters of Niebuhr in which I have become much interested. He was a most extraordinary man & combined qualities rarely found united, and applied his great power to the objects for which they were best suited. Mr. Thomas Baring is probably on the way to make us a short visit. I have not seen him for 23 years. While he is here arrangements will probably be made for my retiring at the end of this year. I shall then require some occupation as substitute for business; in some sort a necessity to me to fill up my time. But so far I have found a use for all my leisure. Your mother would, I think, A leading German historian, critic & thinker whose work lay in the field of ancient history, Roman and other. (August 26, 1852) 2. like a small inexpensive farm with a garden, flowers, fruits, etc., and this I think I. too, should like. We shall see. We are all well and everything looks well and we are agreeably situated. Sam seems well suited to the business he has chosen and our London friends, I think, are highly satisfied with him. Anna is at Lynn and in good health for her. She is full of energy and spirit and devoted to us all, and recollects you with great interest. Tom is on an excursion in Canada. It is not unlikely some arrangements may be made hereafter for establishing him in New York in connexion with George's house. He reminds us constantly of you. [What with steam, telegraphs and gold everything and everybody seems to be in a state of hurry and excite- Exc of, ment and the changes are so great, sudden and unlooked the for that I am often led to inquire, "Where is the world on eve f, feith the into which I was born?" Nothing seems constant but change. .] In this state of things there is much to regret and much bings to hope. On the one hand there is the recklessness of human life in the competition of Railroads and Steam Boats. & The loose gambling and great speculating which prevails and the absence of the familiar restraints in the common transactions of life, and frauds in matters of trust and business; coarse conduct and fighting in the halls of Legislation and a lowering of the standard of the public press are bringing all the rowdyism in men to the surface. On the other hand, there is the general prosperity and bettering the condition of the great masses of the people; the almost inconceivable increase of wealth and capital; the stimulus to industry, to invention; the increasing intelligence and energy; advancement of education, religion and temperance; the levelling upwards -- all give great hope for the future and indicate that 20 years hence the influence of the United States on the world will be very great and beneficial. But we cannot see far. If I were young I should, I think, wish to live as long as I could to gratify my curiosity as to the future. There is much to observe and to study for one of a philosophical and well stored mind like yours. And there must be a high gratification in being out of the great current of affairs and in studying the philosophy of life and its conditions. Yours truly, Thomas W. Ward. To John G. Ward, Esquire of Boston, U. S. A., at Vienna. 5/27/04 Ward Family Papers. M.H.S. Finding E sepier made 5/28/04. Note: Typescopt can T us Not exact correspondence." B1,F.2 6 large C. word to us T W. ward (Natere) Calcutta, 4/17/42- Refers to Mather intual in his eyes. "Since I have been her they have bce gradual improving and I think the h th time I get how they well be read recovered As yet I have not bee able to use them Muh." B1,F4 T.W. Waster george (6/16/45) describing his visit to Kenox bd expectation it become a "very tolerable and recronable idle man." BIFF Georgian to T.W. (10/4/45) fm NYC "a clerk for 2 year, now 21 yrs of age Wait to go to June the study several year at University On 10/7/45 geuse write that heis "courved which I has seen he before that should I tolu up a literars life, I could succeed in it a fully as in business on 10/5/45 good says her object s to become a man of letter end an author contine itselt to Pretty, Play and Novels, ad Philosophy. But, such a purior "is the lash nan in the world, you or I or ay other Nas would line for a son." T ward (1019) encourage son to return have to talk over matter. Fadher with (10/11) to sm tollog a talk on Park Street between the two. Resort his tater he wats to arrive at what is best, not to montan a pati when position, jost his "weltare" Nomether going abroad S "not at all practicable and woment contribut to "tom respectability I usetulaus or happens. Frn NYC, group antes (10/17) two science letter: he deliveration at a and, not to goto Cervay but will return have tririjoin John in Business", = - Box 1, F 6 TW tofera (1/30/46) reters to Anna writz for enox that texp J 13 below zeronat every at the Sedgwicks, Encourages In to and for keep a Baring' house". George T.W. (2110/46) ton London all been & tour of Westminst Fliby. Cour in T.W. (2122146),20 forturup teedelberg (sare at letter on trouch Goor to T.W. (3/9/4 46) study German. will alted leature. Box 1, F7. 4 (4/2) deservace German aduc. system when they "always loch more at theory then at fact." More a them (4/22) + his dai i activities (5/21), ke excussion down Rhine (615) T.W. to George (7/15/46) he his mather's twilt Mentual, had Ehamplan - hah have fire 66 3 wechs. T.W. is = Mechan - any sister at Nahant. Box 1,F8 Feverge (8/12/46) u transite, So the (914) id calleries Vience on to Progre (9/24). Urenna pleased isin the Mostle says Calch from Berlin. He hap to be done = work here in rust 18 Mo. (1848) Several more letter Tw. george Box F9 Three letter (Jan-llanch 1847) in has states + come on heston of Lterature, T.W (3130) uputs from Boston of 2 test of snow at Pittsfield; Horace gray dead lash west bured at let Auburn. San + hids at henox and Annaat Haggertyi in Ny. Mary "Uaetha is very well, + Mary well." for ( E. O Four or tivi more letters N London trip & Italian tup preparations Transport (5/25) includio notation le Jeffries Wyman, Anewa naturaler - ordinest who uin staying 10 group. Street has all the flovor of george B Dorr. Jeffer been Harrow profession an cay charpion of evolution. 3 10X / F,11 T.LO to grape (7/10/47) I "Tom is at henox and (8/7/147) the he 3 on my way home". Reair Bible. Many at ur. Store's at ledford." writs T.W. T.W. (8/14) on family sailing at "Seaconnet in R.I, 6 me eath of Neepart. "Mary is at Lanor. Sam 1s now hach at Lauox followy (says GBD) a hearting and cavocing try in th Advicidad "them real wilderness, Box 1,F.M guoze to T.W. (9/25/47) off to Italy. 'give of love to the girls since his just heard from each. "llary is pretty had neverthiles four letters in two years is no great thing! Math is better but she does not tell me much of what is guy on." From Hilan (11/7/47) T.W. to grose (11/17/47) re "We drand te i at lln. Everett's last even ing." Hes bee read Tacitus, girbon, Hame, a Like of Colcridge grore to TW 1212a) spedy Xwas in Naples, for 1, F. 13 letter from Naples, ind vist to Pomper (lette 2/22/48) re "Everyth in Europe " in the greatest agitation now owing to the revolution in France." (3/20/48); Fronh Story arried form Boston; also other Bostoneon Wood Sears's others. More for liaple (4/19/48); then Rome (5/7/48) who he ha sea "Louisa ward: Box 1, F. 14 Says her stay in Italy (6/4)48) "themsel profitable part of my whole lite." On to Paus (6/18/48), anoth letti (6/2 14F) is "great rebellion' "our last 4 days but George wa not hurt in this "stat of siege' Feach Story is there & well Tw write (7/26/48) that "Trade is had manufactury veg had we are shrinking up. Refer to their "pourty a) "to do with less." helts (8/7) Cost of European trous ? 91,200/ yr. in gurt T.W (11/8/48) uper to Mary at Wahant with Julia Howe," Two plan tounds in Ny,will follow literature T again 4 declines luever others of T.W. Here we my he New r a letter for T.W. who appear to have recend her formance support of groge a from "a trust and not a gift, you had us & right to with device it. Agui (11/13) group write that Twha always for wonderful and "use home lived tageh without exchanging a Single word a te subject of money Again (11/15/48) from Lenry he writes that bue is not "wite the allowance that you have made nu. Letters being copied. on 10/4/49 group Egg Le will become in "broken in Stat Sirect " (Boston) B.F.F 16 Group truels to New wears (5/3/50) T W. sap (5/12) that "Many easy for the present No employment for Sleeps an no profitule trade Manifactory continuous had ! From (6/5/50) says from 'st hours that he hopend to be hore in time for Many's wedding:-" Refer to Caltorner exignation, aholitia t slavery, etc "I 5 1.1.17 John to urs ward from London (6/2/43) 2 of he meet to Mr. Thomas Basing. West to team Julia wand (notation that Harrend to Dr Senual Home) on her wedding journey John to lears. was k Saming never (8/14/43); Lyon (8127) Agen, many anvaluation 3 6 B D. B.F. 18 Letter h TW two "Dear Boys a 7/8/44 says pg you bills + don't have bills "stand unreasoned nor any longer than neurous T.W to note has (12/4/44) stack transport of $20 K each from shares of Amostrag, Mammark Bash of Comman Cabat, etc, Bi FIS Till 42 John sound utter a grage for also @ business opportunities reality 400 Joh (7/23/49) on 56 bay vagan for Southaupt to Malta to Cairo the Caylon to Hong Kong Her he is a partner (in Carton) in A. Heard No. Bel ,F.20 Conton letter (1847) B.I,F 21 Economic was in Boston (1/26/48) TW salp "shirthing will reach us all near all our factories maln no dividends, and the stocks are unsalable." John is we situated in carton T.W. says (2/22/48) that hes heart to ur. Divwell (partner in Carton Hain of Heard 6.) T.W. sgs (8/7/48) in hele t. John that "Ishall utine as som a leasors. savings concernience well pressurt not may maths. Response it John (9/26) is that he too "shall give up business "for he has enough "and nou than enough; to Luve as I should best ursh." He usent h invest & in safe Manver + live study with has income of educate self, "an independent man at last." 6/ B.L.F.22 better emonte home. T.W. say George is at Canbaige ad studies hand; be does not talk with but I dare Silly he receive will vanesh before your Sunshine." (5/8/49). B1.F23 IW. to John (5/12/50). "Mary says you will be In only two in a few dge" (GBD rate that T.W.s left am had he brohen from house falling in Jan. 1850), health Now exploring. "After may is married hell tah longe journes with ltrs. Ward. Fouseas "Empty home syndrome T.W to John (8/25) u "Mary scan most at Passure and at ease." 1st notice T W. to for (9/17/50), "Mary is in the family way Charlo it Dorr an perfectf well, and her husband and he House of business all right, and Mar is very happy." B1.224 T.W. to John (1125/51) Georg signed a spreat for a new partnership for 5 year under the term name of Blake, Ward, + Co. ad we an all pleased T.W to for (11/2/51). "Many and has baby will Dorr are all first rate." B.I.F.25 Tu to John (1125/52). George Leter married onth 22nd + is stay write he wife at llargy, + May for the Dorr am with bio for the week or two, Later (3/9/52) ,May breaking the Dorr are an happy any possible, and Mer Dorr is a forent with Lang all for his 8/2/52. he excelled qualities." T.W higs group a house read Shakespeare He also Eys (8126 / $27 sent Thomas Baring will ling fig by in short visit hovest seen her in 23 years hope to retire (TW) at and of 1852. Cop B.I.F26 Deati of Marther copy 00/144 MHS 7 Box 8 Has draw (E is date). F.1- Handwritin Willia ward autilicory lute C graddbidd 27 pp. The Dry ped prem For Thomas ward E.g. for Service Switt, 3/30/54, Marblehead Mass legining William Grey of Lynn a farme (see howis' History ) in 1706 on Millips Hill. Dund 1758/1760 for Ahrahom bon 1713, manua Lydea Calley The dautten (daytiment Francis Cally F2 36 pp. handwritte Were was Outch fellot gradcheldine In GBD's had: Wm gray, the educat su, wa born in Lynn on For 27, 1750, iamed of for has grand toth wm. 10PP 3x5" Gray I Then notzs a not clear F 3 Baring House Ancestry OCIC. Note. William Gray of Salem, Merchant Biograph Shetah LEtword Grag Houghton riftler R.d. F4, For Wm Wand [1786].4 pp. had essy Josheen Ward was born in the tounce of Hurr in th conf of Kent (old England came to the country soon after te 1st stether t settled in Salem F5 4 Has letter to George @ his work (01+03) May forg had records Purpore under felter to Wm C Endicatt (1908) regard arcestry of Willia Gray's wife from Sioney Perley. Edward Guy (1/7/f2) letter tr Mr. Dorr M Joshua Bates t relation to William Grog Thomas W. Ward 9/30/17 had leth to seorge re SMM pub "... messed seeing you an hope Fat better luck next year Copied, (8 B8F5 7/21/17 letter. Copied, F7 On of LNP stationary for stretcher of noval table F9 Letter to ur. Hale (unders) to From "Saubic an ulating Lisrary 1826. F12 Haward College hibray, 2 precommendation Box 3 Samuel & ward 1 Typescupt copes by GBD. Letter from 1830's to T.W. word F 3 S.C ready Barke, Pitts life. $ Impt Boston / March 6, 1836 letter to "My dear Father, says M P8, 2 "It is a pitz that before to marther Character a well. - F4 Reference to Marthain illness (6/15/38, 6/17/38) Letters from Pittshurgh. F5 1. " Cinanate, F6 " " New Orlean (1839) F7 u " N.Y. Litte (3/4/39) for Norea ugard a "lady " to whom I have been for some time s worly attached" lls Anna Barker. Water 7 propose to her. Busine assessment jesp. cotton hella for Horava, 4/12/39 F8 Aug 9, 1839 lette from Genpat "Mary some to be well + stoon ...P below May wish to stay until when some of her friends will be coming to Booton They seen much attached to her, as desirver to have her with them." ( 00) Mits 5/27/04 B.F 8 Aug 26, 1839 letter to TW Ward we seluctants part with this May who goes with same young falks whom I gladf commit to your find care." Sept. 9, 1839 letter ri Marthm letter account for Johni "failure to enter college. San has great respect for John intelled but "heban L dith wilt in grasping particulars and holding then in has Rind." 3 pr on John abilities. All are "sadly disappointed." UN. 1,1839 : 3pp in Anna Backer + San feelings for her. Dec 3, 1839. Differ to Many's attachment to Julia Check F9 ug! 1840 3 pp letter an Anna New Orlean Sept 28, 1840 New York wooding plans, Oct 2, 1840 Sam's brother dies. Says May unil be great affected since sha 04 7, 1840 for With Montan, anna Basher Ward, prized him most. to T.W. they father in-lan for he blessing Clinh Mt Wash - next day Och. 14, 1840 Saul dental Wt lt l's + 30 male horsebach treps. Oct 18, 1840 Brattle how event to Signed by noth Sam t anva Stop. 18 folders remains Dorr Papers. c.2 Copy of Original filed Under NEHGS. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 New York. Jan'y 2d, 1877. Hon. Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University. Dear Sir: Our late father, Thomas W. Ward, deceased in 1858, for many years Treasurer of Harvard College, by his will left to the College Library the sum of Five Thousand dollars together with his portrait by W. Page. The legacy was duly paid, but the portrait remained with his widow who survived him many years. We now in compliance with the provisions of his will beg respect- fully to inform you that the picture will be forwarded to you by Messrs Williams & Everett free of all expense, and we annex at foot the extract of the will of the de- ceased having reference to the same. We are, dear Sir, With great respect, Truly yours, (Sgd) Samuel G. Ward " George Cabot Ward. "As I have hitherto devoted much of my time and money to public objects and institutions and to the concerns of individuals and shall continue to do so while COPY (Jan'y 2d, 1677) 2. I live, I do not think it necessary to give largely at my decease, but there being a few of those objects and institutions in which I have always taken an interest I do hereby give and bequeath to the President and Fellows of Harvard College (of which corporation I was twelve years Treasurer,) the sum of Five thousand dollars, the income thereof to be annually expended in the purchase of books. I also give to said President and Fellows of Harvard College my portrait by Page, and the volume containing my account of my administration as Treasurer of that institution." R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 021.6 COPY Copy of Bond of Thomas Wren Ward (and others) at time he was Treasurer of the President and Fellows at Harvard College Know all men by these presents that we, Thomas Wren Ward of Boston in the County of Suffolk as principal, and Samuel C. Gray, Francis C. Gray, William Appleton, and William Sturgis, Esquires of the same Boston, and Jonathan Goodhue of the City of New York, Esquire, as sureties, are holden and stand firmly bound to the President and Fellows of Harvard College in the sums respectively, - viz: The said Thomas Eren Ward in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, - and the said Samuel C. Gray, Francis C. Gray, William Appleton, William Sturgis, and Jonathan Goodhue, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars each, to be paid to the said president and fellows or the1 assigns to which payment to be well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators severally and firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals dated this first day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty one. The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the said Thomas Wren Ward is treasurer to the said President Tand Fellows of Harvard College, - now, if he shall well and faithfully perform all the duties incumbent on him in the said office of treasurer for and during the term of three years, if be shall so long hold the same, then this obligation shall be void, but otherwise shall remain in full force and virtue. Lydia G Ward witness to the signature cf T. W. Ward. Witness to the signature of Jonathan Goodhue Robert C. Goodhue Franklin H. Story witness to the signatures of Sam'1 C. Gray Wm Appleton Wm Sturgis Charles H. Pierce witness to the signature of F. C. Gray R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Dept. New England Historic COPY Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 4 List of names on old photograph of "The Friday Club" belonging to Mr C. P. Curtis. From left to right. Charles Pelham (=) C. P. Curtis H.U. 1811. + 1864 Thomas Motley Father of mattey + 1864 Nathan Hale Editor B. Daily aboution pa of E.G.H Berjamin Robbins B. R. Curtis HU 1829 just us.sup. it s 874 George Hayward m. D If 1809 +1863 James K Mills x same mushaut , Samme Shaw c.f.man support Count, 800 +1861 Framin Callery Gray M H.V 1809 +1856 Nathan Appleton Mchs. A.U. Hou. 1844 J.W. Paige lot 1861 Charles Henry Warren Pres My strow. RRHU1817 + 1874 William 21 oct Sturgis mushant. Bryant Strugh Co + 1863 Thomas Uren Ward aymus Baning Bunch Dhorman Breakinins ten T. B. Curtis art Brown shipley C. 1871 y 1.x miles e. Edmund D wight CK mich * 8.0.00 game collection of prints to Hanward call. Halanti Van Wyck Brooks E.P.PultentC., 1944. 366 THE WORLD OF WASHINGTON IRVING INTO THE FORTIES 367 permanent mode of life and they realized that they were no longer They reflected and represented a world that had cut its political ties with colonials,-they were men of a new American race, with a history, England while retaining colonial modes of thinking and feeling, and a literature, a mind and a country of their own. The forties were called in Irving was virtually an English writer in every important characteristic later times the "mad," the "roaring," the "fabulous" forties, and this as Cooper retained to the last the stamp of the old-world feudal order. was indeed a singular decade in which, as Cooper said, the nation was Irving in his best-known tales embodied the lingering traces of Euro- passing "from the gristle into the bone." It was unique as a time of pean history and legend on American soil, while Bryant remained an reforms and crazes, of Abolition and Fourierism, of "esoteric anthro English provincial poet. In their political-mindedness these writers were pology," of spiritualism, mesmerism, pathetism, phrenology and what typically American, however, immediate heirs as they were of the Rev- not. The nervous and mental interior turmoil implied in these various olution. They were closely connected with public life in their writings phrases,-the battle-cries and banners of the forties,-was matched by and as friends and associates of statesmen, and they were generally the turmoil of the outward life of this decade of "Manifest Destiny, sympathetic, along with the lesser writers and artists, towards all the the Mexican War, the Mormon trek, the settlement of Oregon. The republican movements of their day abroad. They were all, at one time most tumultuous years in the history of the country were those that led or another, soldiers, Irving, Cooper, Bryant * and Poe (who stood up to the climax of 1849; and yet their most notable aspect perhaps was alone in every other way), while the navy was all but a nursling of this national mood of self-realization for which the American writers American letters: Cooper and Irving wrote ardently about it, and Ken- had prepared the way. For was it not largely thanks to these writers nedy, Paulding and Bancroft were secretaries of the navy. The atmos- that Americans had become aware of their country, its woods and fields, phere these writers breathed was leisurely and spacious. They had some its rivers and mountains and its intellect and history too? Young as it of the breadth and simplicity of patriarchal times, and they were emo- was, American literature already had much to be proud of, though the tionally uncomplicated and seemed singularly happy in comparison with most intelligent foreign visitors were scarcely aware that it even ex certain of the writers of the following age. For their minds were listed.* It was fulfilling a rule in the evolution of nations and peoples, focussed on the outer world and they were extroverts, generally speak- that poets appear at the stage of progress following great struggles for ing, at home with men of enterprise and action. Even the meditative the freedom and the shaping of the state. But men still living recollected Bryant was never introspective, and he too liked to think of adventures, the first American novel and the first American professional man of explorers, sailors, pioneers, the Astorians, Captain Bonneville, Natty letters. They could almost recall the first American play. There had Bumppo, the figures of Cooper's novels and the heroes of Simms. been many writers of verse in colonial New England especially, and Moreover, all these writers were happy in their country, for even the who could have named the first American poem? But only one of two censorious Cooper never lost his deep belief that America, the young or three men whom everyone remembered could ever have been called republic, was to lead the world. For the forest philosopher Audubon it the first of the American poets was always fair weather,-the world for him was ever fresh and bloom- The relatively eminent writers, moreover, who had appeared in ing; and this, on the whole, was the frame of mind of the first genera- this first generation were still transitional figures in the American scene, tion of American writers in their vast, new, undefeated virgin home- land. They shared the buoyant confidence of the expanding nation, with 1825 at Newburgh. This was precisely the moment when and the place at which the its Jeffersonian freight of morning dreams, and Washington Irving's feeling for American landscape was rapidly emerging. Downing was then a boy at Newburgh and Cole was at Catskill, near by. life of Columbus was a symbol of this age, for most of these writers too Harriet Martineau observed, as late as 1838: "If the national mind of America were discoverers of the country. William Bartram, Timothy Dwight be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order If the American nation and Lewis and Clark, the travellers, were only a few of the explorers of be judged by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all." Tocqueville expressed a similar opinion in Democracy in America, which appeared in 1835: "The Bryant held for a while a commission in the militia of Massachusetts, as Irving inhabitants of the United States have then, at present, properly speaking, no litera ture." and Cooper had both been colonels in the militia of New York. Page Delivery Service Page 1 of 2 Harvard University Library Page Delivery Service VE R Harvard University. Treasurer's statement, 1830-1831. Treasurer's Sta TAS Page 1 (of pages numbered 1 to 2 in this Go to Page Page sequence section) of this section Previous section Il Previous page Il A Up to contents Il Up to citation TREASURER'S STATEMENT. THE Treasurer herewith presents his annual statement of the pecuniary concerns of the College. The account No. I. is a digest of the money transactions, and shows the whole amount of the actual receipts and payments during the College year. 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Page 1 (of pages numbered 1 to 2 in this Go to Page Page sequence 1 (of pages of this section) section Previous section Il Previous page Il Up to contents II Up to citation Il Next page http://pds.harvard.edu:8080/pds/servlet/PageDeliveryService?id=200756&type=leaf&seqno=18/31/2004 Page Delivery Service Page 1 of 2 Harvard University Library Page Delivery Service VE RI Harvard University. Treasurer's statement, 1830-1831. Treasurer's St TAS Page 2 (of pages numbered 1 to 2 in this Go to Page Page sequence section) of this section Previous section Previous page Il Up to contents Up to citation (2) The funds of the Divinity School have only recently been placed wholly with the College government. Extensive repairs have been required, and other expenses incurred, which have been paid from the funds held in trust or subscribed for this department. The other accounts, it is believed, present all that is requisite to a full understanding of the College funds and property. The Treasurer begs to state, that the extra payments of the last year, which cannot again occur, were greater in amount than the over expenditure, and that by lessening the appropriation for Books, the expenditure of the coming year may be kept at pleasure within the income, which will probably exceed that of the last year, while some of the ordinary expenses of the College will be diminished. Which is respectfully submitted. T. W. WARD, Treas. Harv. Coll. Harvard College, November 17, 1831. http://pds.harvard.edu:8080/pds/servlet/PageDeliveryService?id=200756&type=leaf&seqno=28/31/2004 MHS T.W.Ward Papers. 3.3.f.22. No date. Sam award to Mary c.1840's I Month think In might have wish rimporto When prople dont mate I am am lun thip Many G. Ward they salous an engrying thron the / Mrs Johnson rxpect to go hardswound for a from days next Lin or ful - they aw La hir in the County / somewhere was Dreams respect human is in roubl but Ar is then not thinks that threw instead Mather's better sucherd? going the shale go w hicoper- ha arria this volume I momins ship Julia to but 84th he hile you have the find with he for it her with my 8, D ictaphone, Thursday evening, December 22, 1938. Those years of intimate companionship abroad with my father and my mother, moving quietly about from place to place of interest or beauty as the spirit prompted, reading much and thinking much, were among the richest of my life and laid the foundation deep for future growth and study. That is the reason why my memory now turns back to them with so much particularity. My father was what Chaucer would have called a verra parfait gentleman®, with constant thought for others, broad human interests, and no thought for self, though full of the capacity for great enjoyment in all things beautiful and good. We lived together constantly as we travelled on, in the humours of the moment, in our appreciation and the thoughtsour travel roused. My mother was of a very different nature, not given as I to argument and reason nor patient of them, but arriving straight at her conclusions by passages of intuition all alone. This was not due so much to the fact that she was a woman as to inheritance, in which the artistic strain was strong and the warm interest in human life. In this she was remarkable; people came to her always for sympathy and help in their times of trouble for she was strong to lean upon. 2. But we all three had great reserves, even from each other, and lived our own lives out, not readily opening ourselves out to others. The period I was born into was one of extra- ordinary development in scientific thought, as that of the generation which had gone before me was in its breaking away from old religious views and dogmas. This last had led my grandfather to Unitari/sm, my grandfather on my mother's side, to his father's great concern. But behind the Unitaris of that time lay the attitude of an earlier period **th which accepted all on face and did not question. The lack of warmth and colour had led my mother at the time when I was born to join the Episcopal Church, but this with her was a matter of feeling, not logical conviction. All that was spiritual, leaving dogma apart, aroused her deepest interest; for the spiritual was to her breath of life, and had been always from garlhood on. My father needed, truly, none to tell him what was tipp right or wrong in spiritual matters; he did the right intuitively, needing no instruction. And I think he made no attempt to solve the insoluble in regard to God's presence in the world Sun nov 20 - Saturday evening. 77 Nov. 19, 1938. I had the rare good fortune of having in my father and my mother two people with a delightful gift of narrative. What they told of lived. My father was the more reserved but he had a delightful sense of humor and I find myself still at stories he told me of his youth -- objectively always, for of his inner self I never heard him talk. It was too intimate and personal. My mother had a wonderful gift of description and drew a wide circle of younger folks about her always when she was in the mood to talk. So that between them the time of their own childhood lived again for me. My mother had wonder description power, making feel with her what she had felt herself and felt again in recording it. But neither she nor any of my grandfather/ Ward's family which had the gift of humor,/my father and his sister, my much-loved anut, had so strongly. I have often thought wherein it was that humor lay. It is I think the faculty of seeing things from two contrasting points of view and with detachment, not taking them too seriously. Humor needs sympathy, it involves it; but if the sympathy be too strong or the situation too serious, humor is lost in sympathy. And this forms a criterion by which one can judge men's degree of development. But humor passes into irony, loosing an the kindly quality that is for me/essential feature. William James had wit, often with a shing; his wife could A&S be amusing had humor and http/intimately/as the lit up some story She was telling. I remember one such occasion when she told how she and her daughter Beggy, a naturally reserved and introspective person, and a dressmaker staying in the house got intoxicated on some mushrooms they had gatherd on the lawn and of the way they acted with unextinguishable laughter while the dressmaker's assistant, who had not partaken, wrung her hands in anguish and begged them to be sober. Prof. Royce, the philosopher, and colleague of William James at Harvard, talked with infinite humor when he was then in the mood and was/most amusing to listen to, as well as interesting, but he rebelled in indignation when it was directed against things he took seriously, for seious- ness was the very essence of his nature. John G. Ward to Thomas W. Ward 4 Paris, October 26, 1853. My dear Father, I regret that Martha is no better; for myself and you at home I regret it, but if I were an on-looker merely I should be happy to see one who has lived so well die SO nobly. If I had children, I should have but one prayer for them, that they might so live, and so prepare to die. What matters it if one's life is young in years, when the change comes, so long as it is old in high thoughts and good works. I hear that Sam has bought a farm My own love for the country grows on me as I become older, SO I can the better appreciate the pleasure I wish that he may find in his new home. I hope that dearest Mother is well. I never pass any of the flower gardens here, which I do two or three times a day, without thinking of her. For myself, I think well enough of the world to believe that one who has SO high an appreciation as I of what is beautiful in * This was the farm at Canton formerly belonging to his friend Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Nathaniel Bowditch, the Navigator. Soon afterwards his father bought a farm im- mediately adjoining this for a country home and we purchased Ampt S. G. Ward's farm after his father's death and when he was removing to New York as = better home for his agency busi- ness. and it was there that my brother and I spent our springs and autumns the reafter until we grew up. (October 26, 1853) 2. books, in man, and in nature, may find notwithstanding the troubles of life enough of happiness. Yours most truly, J. G. Ward. Will you give Martha a kiss from me? Your lips can better tell her the love I have for her than my pen. 020 Century Archives - The Century Association Archives Foundation THE CENTURY ASSOCIATIONTU ARCHIVES FOUNDATION EST 1997 bout the CAAF CENTURY ASSOCIATION BIOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVE important Materials Earliest Members of the Century Association ublications Previous Result 269 of 1531 (view results) Next > Online Reference Shelf Collection Access FREDERIC E. CHURCH oard of Trustees How to Donate Artist Centurion, 1850-1900 fentury Association Biographical Archive Full Name Frederic Edwin Church Born 4 May 1826 in Hartford, Connecticut inding Aid to the Collection Died 7 April 1900 in New York (Manhattan), New York finding Aid to the Platt Buried Spring Grove Cemetery [, Hartford, Connecticut ibrary Centurions on Stamps Proposed by Henry Peters Gray DR: A Man of the Elected 2 February 1850 at age twenty-three Century (Audio File) Hot Buttons: Archivist's Note: Second vice president of the Century Association, 1871-1872 Presidential Campaigns nd the Century Association Proposer of: Seconder of: Century Association George B. Hibbard Edward M. Archibald Nobelists R. W. Hubbard Albert F. Bellows When the Clubhouse Horace W. Robbins Robert Hoe III Was New (Photo Samuel Worcester Rowse Fessenden Nott Otis Gallery) F.E.Church. 1850 Century Memorials Frederic E. Church Frederick E. Church [sic: Frederic E. Church] was in his time one of the best known and most Member Photograph Albums Collection distinguished landscape artists in America. A pupil of Thomas Cole, he came early into notice, Album 1, Leaf 14 //www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=269&Search=44df814820e92a4c0f1bc1c690afcf0 020 Century Archives- The Century Association Archives Foundation and the beauty of his work, its careful study, color and originality, attracted immediate attention, and his canvases soon commanded the highest prices ever obtained by a native artist. It was when art was comparatively in its infancy here that his "Niagara," "Heart of the Andes," and "Icebergs" were the talk of the town, and the whole city flocked to their exhibition with the same eagerness that is shown now on a brilliant opera night or the first appearance of a new star. That they are still admired after a lapse of nearly fifty years, when other standards of taste have been established, and familiarity with the best art in the world is a characteristic of Americans, is an evidence of their original merit and enduring value. He was always a careful student of nature, which he loved, and he made excursions to South America, the West Indies, the coast of Labrador, the Holy Land and other far distant regions in the pursuit of his subjects and for a careful study of them. His tendency was toward extraordinary, brilliant, foreign and Turneresque effects, rather than the simple, every day, though no less artistic, subjects employed by the best artists of the European and of the present American schools-the rainbow of Niagara and the iceberg, rather than the quiet river or lake; the snow-capped peaks and the tropical forests of South America, rather than the barnyard, the tilled field, or the village street; the solemn dignity of the Parthenon, rather than the peasant's homely cottage; and the public taste at that time agreed with him. A long time has passed since any canvases have come from his brush, but he spent his declining years at his beautiful home in the Catskills, enjoying the well-earned repose which his success brought him. He was made an Academician of the Academy of Design in 1849, and since 1850 had been a member of The Century, where his memory will always be cherished and honored. Henry E. Howland 1901 Century Association Yearbook Church, born in Hartford, Connecticut, developed an early interest in art and by the age of 16, he was studying drawing and painting with Thomas Cole. By 20, he had been shown in the National Academy of Design annual exhibition; the following year, he sold his first major oil, to Hartford's Frederick E. Church Wadsworth Atheneum In 1848 he was elected as the youngest Associate of the National Academy of Design and was promoted to Academician the following year. That same year he took a studio in New York City, accepted William James Stillman as his first pupil, and turned out a number of 1850-1900 pictures, all of which sold well. Frederic E. Church Frederick Hill Meserve Collection Church settled into his own pattern of travel, hiking, and sketching from spring through autumn, Album 1, Leaf 21 followed by winter in New York painting. In April 1853, Church and his friend Cyrus Field, who laid the first trans-Atlantic cable in 1858, journeyed through Colombia and Ecuador. In 1855, his South American pictures were shown to great acclaim, and for the next decade he devoted a great /www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=269&Search=44df814820e92a4c0f1bc1c690afcf0c 020 Century Archives - The Century Association Archives Foundation part of his attention to those subjects. But it was his Niagara, completed in 1857, and Heart of the Andes, now in the collection of the Metropolitan, in 1859, that guaranteed him the role of America's most famous painter. In 1860, Church married Isabel Carnes and began to devote his creative energies increasingly to gentleman farming and to the designing of Olana, his "Persian" villa at Hudson, New York, a seemingly endless undertaking. The original architect of Olana was Richard Morris Hunt, but after an 18-month European and Near East trip, Church worked with architect Calvert Vaux. From the 1870s until his death Church was afflicted with painful rheumatism of the right arm, which limited his work on major pictures, though he still managed to produce a few large impressive canvases. He died in 1900, a Centurion for 50 years. James Charlton "Centurions on Stamps," Part I (Exhibition, 2010) Questions, comments, corrections: email caba@centuryarchives.org © 2012-2020 Century Association Archives Foundation (/www.centuryarchives.org/caba/bio.php?PersonID=269&Search=44df814820e92a4c0f1bc1c690afcf0 3/3 Chapter 2 Early Years on Mount Desert Island: 2/18/19 Y The First Generation 1 Mount Desert Island is a special place. Its history has been written numerous times, SO it will be described here only briefly. The island' 2 is situated about two-thirds the way up the coast of Maine and about 275 miles northeast of Boston (Fig. 2.1). This area of the country is commonly termed "Down East" just as the early ship captains called this direction of sailing along the coast because of prevailing winds and the Gulf Stream. The island (hereafter denoted MDI) was first "discovered" and briefly explored (by nonindigenous peoples) by Samuel de Champlain4 in 1604, who 1 See, for example, Street (1905), Hale (1949), Morison (1960), Hansen (1989), Mazlish (1997), Dorr (1997), McBride and Prins (2009), and Vandenbergh and Shettleworth (2009). 2 MDI has an area of 108 square miles; it is the largest island in Maine and the sixth largest island in the contiguous USA. Encyclopedia Britannica online: http://www.britannica.com/place/Mount- Desert-Island. 3 Samuel Eliot Morison suggests that the Portuguese explorer Estévan Gomes (Gomez) actually saw the island while exploring the North American coast for the Spanish in 1525. He cites a 1529 map by Diego Ribero, which shows Gomes' route and a "Rio de Montanas" between what is now the Penobscot River and the Bay of Fundy. The only river or estuary east of the Penobscot that has mountains on both sides is what is now called Somes Sound, which nearly bisects MDI (Morison 1960, 1971). Samuel Eliot Morison is perhaps best known for his comprehensive, 15-volume, naval history of Second World War, as well as a single-volume summary (Morison 1963). 4 Champlain was the pilot and guide for Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts, who had a grant from Henri IV of France for all the land in North America between latitude 40° and 46°, approximately from modern Philadelphia to Montreal. Sieur de Monts set up a small colony on an island in the St. Croix River (which now separates Maine from New Brunswick) and sent Champlain to explore what was then termed L'Acadie (Morison 1960). Between September 5 and 7, 1604, Champlain and his crew explored the eastern side of MDI (discovering that it was an island, not a peninsula, and passing what is now Salisbury Cove), ran aground near what is now Otter Cliffs (on the southeast side of MDI), repaired his small boat (called a patache) in Otter Cove, entered Somes Sound and exchanged gifts with some Native American inhabitants, and then sailed west into Penobscot Bay, passing a tall island which he named "Isle au Haut" (Fischer 2008). For more on Champlain, see Morison (1971) and Parkman (2008). C American Physiological Society 2015 39 D.H. Evans, Marine Physiology Down East: The Story of the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Perspectives in Physiology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2960-3_2 44 2 Early Years on Mount Desert Island: The First Generation end of the nineteenth century, Bar Harbor and its array of large hotels rivaled the more famous Newport, RI, as a summer playground for the rich and famous. 20 Moreover, a large number of the New York and Philadelphia gentry had built mansions (called "cottages" in the local parlance) in Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, and Seal Harbor (Vandenbergh and Shettleworth 2009, pp. 54-91). In these cot- tages, families like the Vanderbilts, 21 Hamiltons (grandson of Alexander), Pulitzers, McCormicks, Fords, and Rockefellers enjoyed the scenery and society of the island. The Dorr family from Boston also built a cottage in 1879, called "Old Farm," where their son, George, enjoyed his summers. George B. Dorr grew up appreciating the beauty of MDI and became "the father" of what is now Acadia National Park. In the process, he recruited the Harpswell Laboratory to MDI. In 1901, George Dorr (Fig. 2.2) received a letter from Charles W. Eliot, Pres- ident of Harvard College and a summer resident of Northeast Harbor, asking him to join a small group of summer and year-round residents who were interested in preserving the tranquility that had brought them to MDI in the past half-century (Richardson 2005, p. 15). Dorr accepted and brought with him George Vanderbilt to meet with representatives of the Village Improvement Societies of Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor, a group that included the noted Yale geologist Edward S. Dana and George L. Stebbins,23the father of G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jr., one of the Fig. 2.2 George Buckman Dorr (1855-1944). The "father of Acadia National Park" (Original in MDIBL Archives; used with permission) 20 Tobias Roberts built Bar Harbor's first hotel in 1855-30 years later there were 17 hotels in Bar Harbor, one of which could serve over 500 guests (Morison 1960). The tax base for Bar Harbor grew tenfold between 1880 and 1890 (Dorr 1997). 21 In this case, George W. Vanderbilt II, who subsequently built the famous Biltmore Estate near Asheville, NC. Even after building Biltmore, Vanderbilt and his wife and daughter spent most summers at their cottage on MDI, until his death in 1914 (Vandenbergh and Shettleworth 2009). 22 Dorr (1997), pp. 14-15. Richardson (2005), p. 15 2 Early Years on Mount Desert Island: The First Generation 45 leading evolutionary biologists of the twentieth century. 23 They formed a corpora- tion, the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, with Eliot as the first President and Dorr as the Vice-President (Dorr 1997). By 1912, the trustees controlled over 5000 acres, acquired by donations of property and money from friends of Dorr and other members of the corporation (Richardson 2005, p. 18). But it soon became clear that the property would be taxed if it could not be placed under governmental protection, and Dorr and his friends also wanted to preserve the acreage for future generations. Through tireless work and personal friendships and contacts, Dorr (with $17,500 from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to research land titles back to Cadillac's claims) was able to have the properties declared the "Sieur de Monts National Monument" in 1916 (Op. Cit., pp. 19-20). The name was changed to Lafayette National Park in 1919 24 and to Acadia National Park in 1929. This was the first national park east of the Mississippi and the only one established entirely by the donation of private land (Richardson 2005, p. 21). At the celebration of the original "Sieur de Monts National Monument," in 1916, Trustees' President Eliot stated that "I hope we are going to hear from a very competent source of the new interests which are to be developed in the wild life of the Island, its trees, shrubs, mosses and flowers, and the animals that can thrive here on land or in the sea" (Dorr 1997, p. 53). That "competent source" was George Dorr, who said: "It struck me what a splendid and useful thing it would be if we could provide down here, in a spot SO full of biologic interest and unsolved biologic problems, SO rich in various beauty and locked around by the cool northern sea, a summer home, however simple, for men of science working in the Government bureau, in the museums and universities. They would come down to work, as Henry Chapman and Charles Sedgwick Minot 25 used to do, on a fresh field of life, bird or plant or animal, and then go back invigorated, ready to do more valuable work the whole winter through in consequence of this climate boon and stimulating change" (Dorr 1997, p. 58). This theme was repeated in the remarks of another speaker that day, Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, Director of the Department of Marine Biology of the 26 Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. Our Government has, strangely, never established a permanent laboratory north of Cape Cod for our fisheries' benefit, yet no richer or more promising field for biological work exists than that offered by 23 Smocovitis (1996). G. L. Stebbins was listed as a member of the MDIBL Corporation from 1932 to 1935 (MDIBL Annual Announcement and Report, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935). 24 Former President Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter of support, and Dorr actually hand-carried the bill to the White House for President Wilson's signature (Dorr 1997). 25 Minot was Professor of Histology and Embryology at Harvard's Medical School. He had been with Agassiz at Penikese in the summer of 1873; worked with the renowned physiologists Henry Bowditch (Harvard), Carl Ludwig (Leipzig), and Leon Ranvier (Paris); and had published a famous book, entitled Human Embryology in 1892. He summered in Seal Harbor, often taking walks with President Eliot, who summered in Northeast Harbor (Morse 1920). 26 Mayer was a Trustee of the MBL at this point. The Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution was actually a laboratory in the Dry Tortugas, FL. As mentioned in Chap. 1, Mayer had worked at the HL in the summer of 1908 and knew Kingsley from both the MBL and HL. 46 2 Early Years on Mount Desert Island: The First Generation these fruitful northern waters, nor more desirable and practical station for such work than offered by the tract of sheltered and deep-watered coast at Mount Desert now dedicated to the memory of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell" (Dorr 1997, p. 61) The Weir Mitchell Tract was in Salisbury Cove. Silas Weir Mitchell "was almost a genius. His contemporaries believed that he was one, an opinion Mitchell came to share" (Earnest 1950, p. v). Among his many accomplishments, 27 Mitchell recruited William Osler (generally considered to be the father of modern American medicine) to the University of Pennsylvania in 18842 and was the most senior of the founding members of the American Physiological Society. Like SO many 29 of his friends from Philadelphia, Mitchell summered in Bar Harbor in the late nine- teenth century. He arrived in Bar Harbor in 1891 "in order to avoid the new-rich 30 taking over Newport" and became "the recognized leader of the walking and talking set which was the backbone of Bar Harbor Society." The specific con- nections between Dorr and Mitchell are unclear, but Dorr and friends (called "The 32 Wild Gardens of Acadia Corporation"; hereafter termed the WGA) had purchased land to the west of Salisbury Cove in tribute to Mitchell sometime after his death in 1914, and the speeches at the celebration of the Sieur de Monts National Monument 2 years later make it clear that the WGA was thinking about establishing a biological laboratory on the Weir Mitchell Tract in Salisbury Cove as soon as possible. George Dorr recalled the specifics of the purchase of the land in Salisbury Cove and the recruitment of the Harpswell Laboratory sometime later:33 One of the things in which I have taken the greatest interest, the Park apart, has been the Marine Biological Laboratory at Salisbury-The Mount Desert Island Biological Labora- tory. In searching for a good wharfage for our transit company, when we had been threatened with a trolley line upon our Ellsworth Road, in 1907, I had purchased for it and 27 Mitchell was a pioneering clinical neurologist, famous for the "rest cure," and much influenced by his surgical experiences in the Civil War (Carlson 1938, p. 475). He was also a famous novelist, publishing Hugh Wynne and Ode on a Lycian Tomb (Earnest 1950, p. v), and a poet http://quod.lib. amich.edu/a/amverse/BAP5347.0001.001?view=toc. to this history, one of Mitchell's poems was entitled "Storm-Waves and Fog on Dorr's Point, Bar Harbor." To read that poem, go here:http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/silas-weir-mitchell/storm-waves-and-fog-on-dorr- s-point/. For Mitchell's portrait by John Singer Sargent and more biographical material, go to http://www.schwarzgallery.com/catalog.php?id=78&sort=plate&plate=4&menu=1&group=0. 28 Bliss (1999), pp. 130-131. And Osler wrote a reminiscence for Mitchell's obituary in The British Medical Journal (Vol. 1, Jan. 10, 1914, pp. 120-121). 29 Carlson (1938), p. 477 and Brobeck et al. (1987), pp. 13-21. Mitchell served as the second President of the APS. 30 Osler actually visited Mitchell in Bar Harbor in 1910 (Earnest 1950, p. 215). 31 Baltzell (2004), p. 221. Mitchell's relative importance to Philadelphia society after the Civil War was noted by Baltzell: "S. Weir Mitchell-physician, psychiatrist, author, and conversation- alist par excellence-became the First citizen of Philadelphia as no one had been since Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush." Baltzell (2004), p. 152. 32 Dorr is not mentioned in either the Earnest biography of Mitchell (Earnest 1950), or a collection of Mitchell's letters (Burr 1929). 33 The typed and only moderately edited draft of an undated reminiscence by Dorr is in the Archives of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. It was also reprinted in a slightly edited form in Dorr (1998). Appreciation is expressed to Ms. Debbie Dyer for her assistance in locating the document. Springer http://www.springer.com/978-1-4939-2959-7 Marine Physiology Down East: The Story of the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory Evans, D. 2015, XIX, 1094 p. 235 illus., 117 illus. in color., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2959-7