Jensica Chrone liler 1851-63 Eng Communication to Park MA. Club Joe the Jansica Plain, MA. Relocation to Pail St., Boston " a que, Back Booton Early years of Boy 47 1860 GO by Bryant. 1860's the A fact of of this which (fig. facades houses Club parts, an 40 with a bay. By the Monday October 31. The bookcase in the library of Storm Beach Cottage stood when I first // / remember it in the late 1850's against the wall of the library of my grandfather Ward's house on Park Street, Boston. I remember well climbing up on a chair to look at the back of the books on the yet shelves, for I could not/read, and pulling out a volume of Professor Lane's translation of the Arabian Knights, for it gives emblazenment on a pale green cloth cover, and finding delightful engravings in it, strewn through the printed pages. of armies fighting in the air, of giant Afrits, of Sinbad the Sailor, and the like. We had driven in whoever we may have been -- from my father's and mother's home by Jamaica Pond and I carried the book back with me when we returned. Thut my kind old nurse, Mrs. Hind, a Welsh woman, who received me in her arms, the first of all, when I was born and was as devoted to me as if her own. I remamber well sitting up on a high chair in front of a glowing hard coal fire in the nursery while she read to me from the book, to which I added on another trip to Boston the other two, equally fascinating, volumes of the set. I was young enough still to have long, fair curls and not to have graduated into trousers yet. It was difficult reading for my nurse with long verses from the Koran interspersed in the set but I listened with attention as I looked into the fire and delighted in the tale. My grandfather's library looked out back on the Grenary Burial Ground over a back garden that my grand- mother tended, while the front rooms on that floor, the dining room and parlor, looked out delightfully over the Common with the sunlight streaming in the afternoon on the walls and throwing/colored light from X glass prisms hanging from a great chandelier in the center of the parlor, the colored light shifting constantly on the wall as the afternoon sun descended. After my grandfather died, not long afterward, we lived for a winter in the house, which then was sold by my grandfather's executors, while we built our- selves a new home alongside my grandmother, being among the first to build on the new-made land beyond the Public Gardens, new/itself, Den Dixwell's Boston Latin School. There were few boarding schools in my school-boy days; Phillips Exeter and Saint Paul's were the only ones I remember hearing spoken of or which were represented at Harvard when I was there. Boys lived at home and went either to the Boston Latin School or to Dixwell's. Epes Dixwell, the son of an old Boston merchant engaged, I think, in the China trade, had been head master at the Latin School and then, with reputation gained as a teacher, had set up his own private school which quickly took the lead in Boston, having practically all its old families represented in it at one time or another, relatively small though the school was for it never had more than fifty odd boys, divided into six classes, from the last of which they entered Harvard. The school had its football team -- playing the old-fashioned open game; baseball as an organized sport was just beginning and tennis and other sports of the present day did not exist, save rowing, which 2. 4 one took up first at Harvard. The only teams with whom Dixwell's played in set matches were the Boston Latin School, or, more seldom, its chief rival, the Roxbury Latin, also a big school of high standing and sending boys to college. Groton and the other schools which came so much to the front in later years were not in existence. School hours were from nine till two with a recess of half an hour from half past eleven to twelve, when, if it were spring or fall, we went out and played football on the Common. There was no choice of studies; all was definite and fixed and the goal was Harvard. When spring came, the parents of most of our school-mates moved out to homes in the country, whence both fathers and sons came in by train, the boys returning in the early afternoon, giving abundant leisure in the long spring days for play at home. Many went to the North Shore where they could go out to row or sail and lived much upon the water, laying the foundation for yachting in later years. It was there that Edward Burgess, the 3. famous cup-designer, an older pupil still at Dixwell in my time, got his first experience and his love of sailing. Many, too, went to the South Shore on Buzzards Bay where the winds were steady and the water warm for bathing. There it was that Charles Francis Adams, the younger, the recent Secretary of the Navy, and a famous skipper in the International Cup Series, got his experience. Other families still went to Chestnut Hills or Milton. Our own home in spring and fall was the town of Canton, beyond the Blue Hills, which we reached by the Providence Railroad, where we went to be near my grandmother. My grandfather Ward had bought an old farm there on which to spend his summers, by his doctor's advice, a few years before his death. It was delightfully wild there at that time, with a big pond to sail on and old roads and woods-roads over which to ride with scarce a house upon them; and it was & wonderful place for birds, whose eggs, like all the boys of my time who had the chance, collected. But it was hot in summer and, school closed, my mother and father would presently pack up 4. and go off to the seashore, or to Lenox, real county then, where my mother had stayed with my uncle and, as a girl, ridden over the whole region -- the most fearless horsewoman, Mr. Curtis the old inn keeper at Lenox, told me in later years, that he had ever known save Fanny Kemble. There we spent delightful summers, driving about the country or exploring it -- my brother and I -- on horseback or on foot. This migratory habit of the family was to prove important afterward in leading us to Bar Harbor. Rockefeller Archive Center Crimine betow into Photocopy Request EPP H.L. Martin cares. Researcher: Cosmos Club Washington Collection: OMR March 5 1923 III Dear Mr Rockefeller: Record Group: After some delay your letter of February 23rd has reached me here. I know the land your correspondent described by observa- Series: 2 tion only from a distance. Looking at it so and on the map, as I have studied the western area over, it has seemed to me de- sirable ultimately to acquire that area together with the slopes Sub-Series I. of the mountain to its south and west and the whole valley of Great Brook. It is a genuine park area and natural wild-life reserve. The mountain looks down on it and it is not readily accessible, like the northern shore of the lake, for camping. Whether it would be injured seriously by the cutting of the wood upon it I do not know, for I have only looked from a distance. I imagine all the woods near the lake shore, being easy of ap- Box: 83 proach in winter when the lake is frozen, have long since been cut and that what is growing now must be second or third growth Where really fine growth exists, it is of course worth saving Folder: 827 but there is little of it left in general. And, in my judgment open grassy spaces like wild sheep pastures, are often better in contrast than continuous woods. I used to be familiar with # of pages to be copied: them, wandering over the Berkshire country when I was a boy. The trouble with the cutting on the Island has been mainly in late years the way in which the land has been left after cutting, disfigured and blocked by slash and exposed to fires. I have met Nutting, years ago when he opposed me at Augusta on a slash law, which I sought for the Island but obtained for Bar 2 Harbor. He is frankly commercial with no public spirit when it interferes with profits and is not interested in preserving for the future. But I imagine him to be straight and business- like, not given to attempted blackmail, and my suggestion would be that the matter be lev lie for the moment. No one is likely to cut the wood at this season with the lake just opening,- and that I have a frank talk this spring with Nutting and find out if I can not bringing you into it in any way, what he plans or would consider profitable to do, in the way of cutting. And I will also launch a canoe, for which I have a trailer rigged, and explore the woods. Item: My main preoccupation now, upon the western side, is to secure the Lurvey land, or as much of it as possible, at the head of Echo Lake, and of Long Pond (two lots). Both are important 3/5/20 and that at the head of Echo Lake bordering there the land we have now especially by an old important. It is old family property controlled until Civil War veteran, who would not for reasons of 1-Gilder F sentiment consider sale. I have been watching it and keeping an eye on it with Schuyler Clark's assistance. Lurvey, the veteran, has lately died and I have had since an interview with Clark about it. He has written the family but not no answer. In the meantime, I have had within the last two days a letter for- - warded from Mr. Lynam's of ice, written him by Mr. Heydt - not knowing that he was still away - enclosing copy of one addressed to you, and the postscript apparently to him as well, by the family executor as I judge. The only way to get the land reasonably will be to leave it to Mr Clark, and that you should not appear in any way as interested. I have written Mr. Clark, enclosing copy, about to write by thi same mail to Heydt. I enclose you that he may be posted and understand the sit ation and are copy in case Mr. Heydt should not have done so, - the copy I received from the Squire's office - of the Lurvey letter. I have some funds remaining but how much I do not know. Mr. Lynam is keeping the account. He will be back the first of April. pe is at work at present on securing for me a tract adjoining ours upon the Breakmeck Road, extending west, and taking in the whole of Lake Mood, a unique and beautiful area, well wooded and of wide extent, which I have been at work upon since last fall. If I can get it at any reasonable price the whole will be given by Mrs John I. Kaul in memory of her sister, Mrs. Bridgeham. One of the owners who is difficult and who only now blocks the way, is out in California, and Mr . Lynam, from whom I have lately heard, is in touch with him. With regards, Sincerely yours, George 3 Dorr Memories Civil mar may 19. 1938 World war Ditaplant I remember well the news came of the firing on Fort Sumter. My grandmother drove out from Boston to our house at Jamaica Plain bringing the newspaper. It was in the early afternoon, April, 1861, the sun streaming into the parlor where they sat, my grandmother, my father and my mother, from across the lake, the leaves not yet out upon the trees would soreen the house from it. I was then seven years old, my bDother nearly three years older. It was the end of our life at Jamaica Plain. Before another winter came we had moved into Boston, to my grandmother Ward's house on Park Street, where a new life began. The war dominated the next four years, the most impressionable in life. The war was afterwards the war to me until fifty years later the World War came upon the news from which I hung from day to day as my father and the world about me had on the news from the south in the Civil War. In that I cannot remember hearing the question raised of separation; it was ** not that but slavery that made the Civil War for us and for our friends in Boston a koly thing. Right and wrong cannot be measured by numbers, by the pre-ponderence of advantage. 2. Were it but the case of a single man it, must be righted any if righted it could be at sacrifice. It was a principal that was involved, no less. And principles cannot be weighed in terms of gain and loss. They are absolute. But at the first S there was a strong Goopperhead contingent among the conservative element in Boston, wishing to compromise, wishing to avoid the penalty of War. It passed or hid its head, once war was entered on and the men of more generous temper had laid down their lives in sacrifice. Equally we felt bitterly the disgrace of the'carpet bagging' period which followed the victory of the north and the reign of the politicians. It was a shameful episode, not to be forgotten. But all war and strife bring evil in their train, as they do heroism also and self sacrifice. Wilsom's idea of a League of Nations the world was not ready for, if over it will be, but it was a great thought and the men who blooked it not from conviction but from political or personal motive, stand petty and small beside it. But how peace can be had without authority, for authority without tyranny is a problem that none at the present time can solve. Men are not ruled by reason and the mob is the work of rulers unless there be in man some 3. spiritual principal'that shakes our end, rough as we may' he stands precariously with all that he has won. ISO let us pray 08 the MHS. T.W. ward. Hs. B.3.F.22. GBD notation "In the later sixties" Inte late EMD. Simil by & Dar for gen Intertain with Dear Many, I have use had Such an absence fiffed that it fruis donbe a moment Smier our return thank charces nameligum hospitals tast an recumple you knie L which of forever as time of ma friend I hope it will baby other with revolution, pub mefully spend in Protein the lem which an in - But of true allendi. Yan afty I thould an Lay L.G.C. Effects Amy Heard: Letters from the Gilded Age Introduction Page 1 of 3 1881 Top Preface Introduction Introduction Amy Heard was born on 7 October 1860 in Paris, the month before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the year before the outbreak of the American Civil War. She was christened Amelia, but never used the name. She was the second child of Augustine Heard, at the time a well known China merchant, and Jane Leaps de Coninck, the daughter of a Belgian Diplomat. Augustine went to China following his graduation from Harvard in 1847 to serve with his uncle and namesake, Augustine Heard, the founder of Augustine Heard and Co. ol months Amy Heard in 1862, Paris The #3 Park Street home of Dorr's grand father, TWW, was sold to llr. A. Heard m March 16, 1863 who owned it for 30 years. Augustine Heard Jane Leaps Heard Like his brothers John, Albert Farley, and George Farley, young Augustine was a senior partner of the largely family controlled firm and was reputed to be the first American permitted to trade in Siam (1855). Augustine took over leadership of the firm in 1852 from his older brother John, and directed the company until John's return in 1855 or 1857, when Augustine moved to Paris as a representative of AH& Co. He married Jane Leaps de Coninck in April 1858, and they had a reputation for living in grand style. The family still traveled during this time and Amy's younger sister Helen Maxima (Max) was born in 1868 in Hong Kong, then the headquarters of Augustine Heard and Company. Jane's parents were François DeConinck and Amalia Williams Taylor. François served as the Belgian Consul in Havana. Amalia was born in Baltimore in May 1806, the daughter of Lemuel Taylor and Mary Wheatly Williams. Taylor was a Baltimore merchant who lost his fortune in 1816-1818 when he lost several cargoes in his West Indies trade. In 1821 he started fresh and moved to Cuba, where eventually he became owner of Sta Amelia, a sugar plantation in the Cilizo district between Matanzas and Cárdenas. François and Amailia were married at the Sta Amelia plantation on 16 June 1831 and subsequently had four children: François, Jane Leaps, who was born in Cuba in May 1832, Mary Taylor, who was born in 1833 and died in Cuba in 1886, and Amalia, born in 1835 and died in October 1884. Mary Taylor de Coninck married Thomas Johnson of Baltimore in 1881, as described in the notes http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/html/amy/amy_3.html 3/7/2010 1859 1-12-20 see Chapter 6 of The Early years of the Saturday Club. Death of Wm.H. Prescett Birthday verses fen RWE for Jame Reessell Lowell the March, Emerson read his lecture 'Clubs' at the Freeman flace Chapel in Booton Showed have rush he valued clubs. John Brown related issues. Harper's Ferry. 50th b-day of OWN. Cultaur gold rush. Charles Summer acture fa Europe Hawthorne's relocation for Rome to England 1860 from Chapter 7 of Easly you of the Saturday Cleff Club member publication Howthorse returns after 7 you absence as Richard Dana returns for a world tour /3r reference to President Elist-which Nonuntra of Lincoln, and Tis apporatment to new Enford Reprefecies Charles new invited to form the S.e., & his later marriggt Susan Sedgiwick Description of her Pg. 240. Shady Hell, and the "repended relation that gares fariel expecial at c Norton family after many to Comprage in 1865. Lath, Nortons abend 1868-72. stay, Gernay. Enford, death of wife fatheround of 6 kids; in 1867 he esterlished second love in in Ashfield. (pp. 246-47) 1861 From Chap. 8 of Early year of the Saturday Club New year opens c South Caraline secession read appeal of OWH. Other states followed 'Almostall of the Club members John A. Andrew Peace Conference Housto Woodman on "The Flag, & Suntero fall War pupartions. Charle Frances Adam in May sent to Sugland as u. S. minester -revarded for 7 years Other member activities Ellsot Cabrat at 40 years was youngers club number. S. 6.Ward, as rep. of Bauge "was sup actout in gorry the English J information of the trie sr tuation how, ad the attitude + resolve of our people Bull Reen defect in July "or astounding shock." I October autobal battle at fills bluff, severely urrending your Weadell Holmes be sunuary pg. 259. Jene Elist Cabot (1821 ) merries Eleze eldest of Col. Thomas Handasyd Persins, founda in Perken's Institute, Mass gew Hospital f Br tm Albenseen Student game Mulomps at Heidelberg+ Lis pased to "neetal saentering (p. 261) Howard 145. Calut In letter to SGW, Dec. 1944, Emerson says he has "adverable paper "fa The is id written by Cabst 21848, C.is agassy student in the feculities Selood explory Later Superor region Sectrustion Kant at Howard, the lafic instructor Overseer in 1875, t EGBD] seved for loyers c Philos. Uniting Committle Encoon said of her: he has a greek mind. But Enermis precess in 1871 began to fail & the fate of lus noosuscupts in question, lefting the load for Emerson's shoulders. Becom Literary executor find Cabots (1838-1903) Essay by E.W.E, who saw murch of be in has father house during the last 20 years 4 hr life, As there a boopaps of EWE ? None found. Caucard Free P.L.: SWE Papers See seve Sever. BIII, box 2, Folder 20. 3mg Bradley Thayar, a we term Trip with Us-Emerson (BoD ton. fittle sam 1884). EWE hured Sleepy Hollow (1844-1930) 1-12-2020 Re fulla Ward House & Mary 9rog Word: see Early year of the Saturday Cheet, Pg. 272. Charles faminer & Curelius Felton were San Houes friends Both infunted In Laura Bredgean core of "toole new Jelen Ward to the Blend asefer for to see for," when she sow Have for fast time. [They named in 1843 J. may reports that the was there c Julia There is also her dauglates report, Laura Rockards. 1862 Source: Chap. 9 of Early years of the Saturday Club Charles Seenner was one member chosen this you GrownsAndrew review the troops War reports-ord poetty @ the struggle Union Club, audity it to Mr. ward, Bummer, Woodman Narton, + Howe, (1811-1874) Charles Summer on troop relieve , listing p. Club member c service records (280) He was assaulted by Preston Brooks in Congress was - in 1856- invalidic the resounder of his life -recall - boupic in D. McCullough's The Greater J Gerag (2011). 1863 from Chap. 10: The Early years f-the Saturday Emanopation Produration. Jubilee Concert. Union Clerk occepter present guarter, 10/15/63 the former revelue of abbott Laurence. Its "promoters, S.G.W. the fash treasurer. Hue S G.W. is instrumental a bauge agait in efforts to purchase wonded Accounts some vessels been built in Liverporl for The South, an issue of great neithern corceru. Finell, the English stopped production seeming because the North would declare was on the U.K. Victory at gettsburg (R)-314,317). Hauthorne very oll. Publication of Club member- Colonel Shaw C.W Eloat is gerry abroad for 6-8 ma Henry James, Sr. only member closer into Club A Swedenborgian whose hooks were all onleligion Good exouple of Conversation" c Alcott, Jones Sr,