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George Bucknam 74-g-ho DIED 29 Dec. 1853, at Boston, mass COLLEGE SCIENTIFIC GRADUATE DIVINITY LAW MEDICAL august DENTAL VETERINARY 1944 at BUSSEY Bar Marbor 8/44 maine 1888-89 1870-771 1889-90 ple clipping Bir. 4871-722 1890-91 1872-733 1873-7414 AB 1874 SB AM a STB LLB MD DMD MDV BAS A.M. 1923 OCCUPATION S.M.(11on.) Univ. Maine 1924 p 3/29 You - fit DATE RESIDENCE DATE BUSINESS ADDRESS Ball '36, Bar Harbor. Maine P3/09 Somerset Claim A 42 Beacon St. 1913 18 to wealth Unites, see 1/34 -Boston 11/ mass H.F.C.5/40 Old Farm Bar- Harbor, maine Son of Charles Hagen Dorr and mary Gray PATENTED Ward. MAY 25, 1897 LIBRARY BUREAU 02880 AT MOUNT DESERT. Correspondence of The Boston Globe Boston Daily Globe 1872; Aug 16, 1876: ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 1901) pg.2 AT MOUNT DESERT. The Journey from Boston-Lovely Sall Along Through Maine Waters-At Bar Harbor- Animated Picture set the Wharf-The Crowd of Summer Vinitors-Points of In- terent. (Correspondence of The Boston Globe. MOUST DESERT ISLAND, BAR HARBOR, Me., August 14.-The approach from Boxton to this beau- tiful Island of hills and wondrous dells is most agree- ably made by taking passage on one of the admirable steamers of the Portland Steam Packet Company to Portland, Mr. William Weeks, agent. This line is one of the most popular leaving Boston. The bonts are made inviting by their perfect ( teanliness and the uniform courtexy of the officers. Reaching Portland early in the morning, you may spend the day among the beautiful Islands of 11s excellent harbor or take the 0.15 A. M. train, seventeen miles. to "Old Orch- and," and enjoy the beach and surf bathing of this fanous summer report and return in sensor to take the Lewiston, one of the best CONST steam- CIN plying in our water. owned by the Portland. Bangor and Mnebiar Steamship Com- pany. of which Mr. Cyrus Startevant la general agent. Captain Deeting, who command this splen- did steamer, Is one of the most obliging and reliable unvigators In New England waters. III experience of thirty years is ably seconded by other officers who vie with each other in making the trip to the "Island" one of the delights of is summer vacation. The table and 100ms are excellent. RAILING ALONG TO MOUNT DISCRT. Leaving at 11 P. M., you will reach Rockland, the first landing. early III the morning. and If you wish to go up the river to Bangor. take the Cambridge of the Boston line for that point. making a tireless journey all the way by water. Continuing by devious course, all will agree that nothing could be pleasauler than the sall by this route, sheltered as it is by the outlying Islandr from the roll of the -ea. Every mile of it In picturemque; brond slapes alternate with woody crag and rocky ledger. The second landing is made HI the old historic tow: of Castine. where will be found It large number of Boston business men and their families spending the summer, and refreshing their memories with a review of the old stories of D'Aulney. and La Tour and his wonderful wife. From Castine the course lies southward, past Cape Roster. through Egg-moggin Reach, which pears like river three miles while, until we reach the next stopping place called Deer Island. From this point we catch our that glimpse of the well-wooded alope of the Western Mountain on Mount Desert Island. The first landing on the island is made at Southwert Hatber in the town of I're- mont. Here will be found quite a little Village and the oldest settlement of the Island. Here are very comfortable hotels, but the number of viritors is limited to such as prefer the most quiet and peace- tul life of n genuine senside location. far away from the noise and bustle of business or fashionable life. ON TO BAR HARBOR. Pursuing our journey the Western hills recede, and we rec that remarkable Inlet known as Somes Sound. Here we pass Flying Mountain, the steep and rugged face of Dog Mountain, and all the well-known peaks and spare which Champlain saw on his first visit, when he gave it the name of Mount Desert Island. Passing the frowning clim of Great Hend and the pretty puvate cottages of Schooner Head, we and ourselves at the what of Bar Harbor, The scene at landing was an Inspiring one. Throngs of indies in the most attractive attires met our eyes. It -eemed like a second Saratogn far away on this barren enust of Maine. And when we landed and wended our way to the Rodich and Grand Central Hotels-both large new houses, and tound not even an attic or cellar 100m to be had, we because convinced that Mount Depert WDF, Indeed, 11 favorite summer resort. We were three hours in finding n place in which to lav our heads. It La the most crowifed resort we have visited. and yet such uniform courtesy 1. shown by hotel proprietors and boarding-houre heapers. that one is almost ready to accept anything for a room rather than not stay here. It Is claimed that there are from 3000 to 5000 strangers on the whole Island. Every hotel, boarding-house and private dwelling is crowded. and many imitate the poor lone Indian" and camp out. Such is Bar Harbor as we find it today. erowded with happy and enthusi- a°tle lovers of the beautiful in nature. and with many who add in nature the ornament.- tion of dress. And some few of the visitors are in danger of overdoing the matter of dress. Keep (bis place nee from the excereur of other watering places and It will continue to be one of the most de- sirable in America: but let the extremes of fashion centre here and its fate Is doemed. We have only space to barely mention A IFW OF THE DELIGHTIVE POINTS or INTER. INS here and the excursions to be ea-ily made and heartily enjoyed. The Walk" along the -hore to Ogden's Point, giving near view. of the bays and islands, Is charming. Here are sheltered nooks, high and crargy rocks, the most prominent of which have been named the "Pulpit." All evening stroll here will (convince the more seepthen that the mur- mar of the sea by moonlight is conducive to sweet communion with congenial spirits. The woods on the north side of the Island are charming resorts for a hot atternoon, and the view actor the bay 14 lovely nt subset. The Mill In the Meadow by the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission tippling brook is reached by a walk across the fields, where will roses abound. Duck Brook,' two miles away, furnishes 11 ramble of real autraction to the lover of beauty and nature. "The Ovens" are caused by the netion of the waves in the triable rocks. They are hollow -worn out in various shapes-bolit archway and door ways. .) high that boats can pass directly under them. Three or four miles from Bar Harbor. southeast, near Schoouer and Great Heads, are Spouting Horn and Devil's Oven. The Oven can only be entered at low tide. Between "Dry Mountain" and New port the drive brings you to Otter Clinis, which rise straight out of the water 112 feet and are very striking object of in- terest. Near by is Thunder Hole or Thunder Care. H deep chasm into which each returning wave forces its water, which rolls and whirls against the rock with a force that makes the whole eliù shakeand the nit to tremble like a crash of thunder. We shall ever remember Echo Lake, two and n halt miles long and one aud a half miles wide, nestled among the bills III peaceful solitude: H sheet of water not excelled by any in Europe or America for its rural and romantic situation and surroundlugs. But our sketch would be incomplete without A brief mention of Green Mono- tain, the highest on the island. A small house, on the summit. turnishes the tourist all needed nccommo- dations. A fair wagon road lead, to the top. a ins- tance of four miles. From this point you have view + of enchanting beauty. Here are blended the Isles of Should and the penks of New Hampshire. Newport, Nabant and the Bluffs of Martha's Vineyard, all in picturesque view. The following guests are stopping at the Rodick House: L. R. Thompson, J. W. Faxon. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Prince, Mrs. J. B. Brine, Miss E. L. Flagg. H. T. Blodgett, N.Warren. Charles E. Gallup, G. Heury Perkins, Mrs. H. L. Brevoort, Miss M. L. Morris, B. G. Haskell. Mrs. Morton, A. A. White, Robert B. Holuuee, Mrs. W.T.G Morton. N. Bowditen Morton, A. E. Lont. L. Gilbert. Mrs. Thompson, Captain John F. Lovejoy, Johu Cummings, Jr., hart. C. E. Seaver, Mrs. Samnel Leland. Miss M. D. Pierpont Edwards, A. A. Parker. William L. Lock- Leland, Miss E. Fitz, Miss Nelson, Miss S. A. M. Whitmore. D. K. Alten. J. c. Longley. T. T. Wheel- wright. James A. Daels and other. of Boston. numbers from Philadelphia and New York. The Large house is admirably managed by David Rodick & Rooms nice and tidy. Table aniple, and food Sour. well cooket. This and the Grand Central are the central points for this season. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. AT MOUNT DESERT. correspondence of The Boston GlobeSTREBOR Boston Daily Globe 1872; Aug 28, 1875; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 1901) pg. 2 AT MOUNT DESERT. Going Down-At Rockland-The Sail Out- Along Life of the - to It way no place along the Provincetown (Correspondence MOUNT Atlantic safely Mount the People blended than of Shore-The Desert-The be DESERT, the coast, BAR at asserted The of find Mount Season. water The HARBOR, from Approach Bombre Boston spot August, Height that, and Desert. in at Globe.1 1873. to Eastport, can one a which are more happily Land, ocean and mountain Of the many routes to this attractive spot, that over the Eastern and Maine Central to Bath. and Knox and Lincoln to Rockland, then via the steamer "Ulysses," is one of the most desir- able. Rockland is a pleasant spot to pass the night, and the Thorndike House is one at which every comfort is afforded. It is the best hotel to stop at. Leaving Boston at 8 A. M., one reaches Rockland at about 6 P. M., and has from that time until 10 A. M. the next day to enjoy the hospitality of the hotel, and visit the points of interest at that place Along the Shore. From Rockland to Mount Desert is a most charming sail. The steamer follows the shore closely, and we may have a fine view of the rough, rocky and wild coast of Maine. The houses are few and far between, and the soil ems as though it could never be able to yield a living to those forced to seek it here. It has often been a mystery how it is that these people along the coast support them- selves, how it is that they keep body and life together. If they have the necessaries, they cannot have the luxuries of life. There is no shore, it may safely be 8 ated, where rocky abound in greater numbers, or where soil 14 leas productive than that portion passed in a sail to Mount Desert The houses scattered along the coast, houses weather-beaten and lonesome, nearly all have a cool or sheltered place in front, and upon the calm waters of which there floats a small, frail craft. The stories that the iu- mates of these houses could tell would be a romance such as is rarely written. These homes have been the scenes of many a trag- edy. In the early morning, husbands and fathers have gone out upon the waters in the small fishing boats, and at evening the faces of the wife and child have looked out in vain across the stormy waters for the sight of those who had gone out 80 strong and hopeful in the morning. We who pass along so com- fortably and wonder how the people live, know not that they live by the boats and the sea, know not that dangers are braved and lives lost, as they fish and sail, only that when winter comes they may have enough money saved to buy salt pork and corned beef. For a philosopher the coast scenery is interesting, for a lover of nature, wonderful- ly beautiful. Many of the portions of the sail are strikingly like that through the Thousand Islards of the St. Lawrence. The Approach to Mount Desert-The Present Ser son. The approach to Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island is picturesque and can be appreciated only when seen. After about an hour's Fall from this point the steamer passes into Frenchman's Bay, and Bar 11- bor lies before one, a rustic, glittering, pretty town. The season of '75 nt Mount Desert and Bar Harbor has been unusually prosperous. At the present time the town IS overrun with visitors, and all is life and activity. Mount Desert in winter and Mount Desert in summer-what a contrast. lu summer, at every turn, a party of lively vis- jers makes the placeall life; in the quiet bay the 'run archt and the light row-boat dart about; the hotely teem with life, and in the flutter if excitement one almost forgets to think of the scene as it appears in winter. Then all is quiet, the hotels closed, the Vis- tors gone. Where now are wahts and Leats, there are only n few weather-beaten schooners; the whole aspect has changed, and Bar Harbor 18 as It was years ago- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission lonesome and deserted. It 18 a contrast too great to be fully appreciated. A Peep About the Place. To describe the beauties of the scenery at Mount Desert would require not. only an able pen, but an abler brush. There are mountains and here is the ocean. One is fit for the other, for both are grand and noble. Lakes and brooks lend, also, their charms to the scene, and at no other place can such beauty be found. Toward evening. when the last rays of the setting sun paint the crest of the inward-rushing waves with their mazic touch. no more beautiful sight can be found than to look out from the 'cove" upon the transformed scene. It is like a beautiful painting; nature puts on her most enticing dress, and the vessels, sating in and out of F. enchman's Bay, have their sails painted as " hite as the wings of the sea gulls hovering about the masts. There is every variety here. The coast scenes are not only remarkably beautiful, but the inland shores as well; and it is a most beautiful picture to look out upon the ocean and across to the shores of Maine from under the whispering pines upon the mountain side. The season of fog has now passed, and for the next few weeks the banks of Mt. Desert will have greater beauties. STREBOR. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. [Special Correspondence of The Boston Globe.] Boston Daily Globe 1872; Jul 28, 1874; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 - 1901) pg. 3 netto Isiana on the coast 01 Maine otters to promenade the piazza, to be gazed at and to those desiring to secure an agreeable place of gaze, but with our plain, pretty cambrics, Summer resort cannot be overestimated. Till wander around the various places on all within the last few years the secret was only sides, with hats hanging from our hands, or possessed by few families, who made Mount any where most convenient. When a little Desert their regular Summer rendezvons. weary, we throw ourselves upon the cool Now from 100 to 200 persons arrive by every grass under the trees, with the recklessness steamer from Portland, and the numerous of girls, as we are. feasting our eyes on the hotels and cottages scattered around theshore scenery spread so far before 118, and exclaim- are filled with strangers who come to enjoy ing with delight at this and that new point. the wild and picturesque scenery of this If it so happen that we linger until the sound el arming locality. There is no lack of suit- of the dinner bell, with a little brushing and able accommodation for regular or transient rearranging we are considered presentable in guests. Here, at Bar Harbor, which may be our first and, perhaps, only suit of the day. It called the head-quarters of Mount Desert, are is glorious liberty from the trammels of some excellent hotels, where the guest will fashion! find every attention paid to his wants. Among I would not have you think, dear GLOBE, these may be mentioned the Harbor House, that I deery entirely fashion. I am fond commanding a fine view of Bar Harbor, of gayety-of society-1 almost say of fashien where will be found all the appointments of a -but give it to no in its proper time and first-class house. The proprietor, Mr. A. F. place, when I am prepared to endure the Higgins, spares no pains in attending to the dressing, the chatting, the dancing, etc., etc.; comfort of his guests and patrons, and is one not in the warm season, when the object in of those men whose very presence is sufficient going away from home is supposed to be to make the sojourners under his hospitable simple quiet and rest. To be sure, one can roof feel perfectly at homei n very short time be independent at the Twin Mountain House, after their arrival and during their Summer but every one's delicate nervesare so shocked visit. to see a young lady fly about over the grass, Mount Desert is full of historic associations with hair braided down her back, hat off, and and memories of the 'red man," its former so devoid of style" that it seems a pity to sole occupant and possessor; its grand and thus disturb these delientely-organized peo- sweeping mountain forms, its bowered lakes, ple! To describe the enjoyments afforded and nestling vales, charmed the eye of the here, I shall not attempt; that was not my artist before they attracted the more prosaic iden. Only come and see for yourself, and if, citizen to seek amid its sheltering hills a cool after a few days sojourn, you do not exclaim and comfortable Summer retreat. Now it has "Eureka!" I am afraid we shall vote you become the most popular of watering-places, "not sensible." S. and its seclusion is yearly invaded by a host of pale faces in search of that renewed vitality which they are sure to find in this delightful MOUNT DESERT. spot. The long halls and spacious rooms of the Eden House, appropriately named, at Bar Attractions of this Delightful Summer Resort Harbor are thronged by these Summer visi. -Fishing, Boating and Driving Ad Libitum tants, and the proprietors, A. H. & O. Ash do -The Hetels and Their Accommodations- everything in their power render their stay How to Reach Them and How to Enjoy pleasant and profitable. Their Privileges-Description of the Island, Eagle Lake is a beautiful sheet of fresh with Its Numerous Drives and Bays-News water, a mile and n half in width and two or Notes and Gossip. three miles in length. It lies between Green (Special Correspondence of The Boston Globe. and Dog mountains, near Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island. It is situated some 1500 feet MOUNT DESERT, Me., July 24, 1874. above the ocean, and supplies the Bay View There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, House nt Bar Harbor, a large and elegant There is a rapture lu the lonely shore." hotel, with fresh water, cold and clear. Per- This little island on the coast of Maine, haps there is no one thing which, although it notwithstanding its remote situntion, is rap- appears insignificant, is so much appreciated idly becoming famious as n watering-place. by the Summer tourist as a good drink of It must be a matter of continued surprise to fresh, clear, cold water. The visitors at the the old inhabitants, still changing to their old Bay View appreciate the efforts of the pro- habits and traditions, to observe the new prictors, Homer Young & Co., in their be- race 01 beings who wave taken possession or half; and this hotel, which has been newly this once secluded spot, springing up furnished and fitted up in every part for the out of the ground, as if by magic, convemence of its guests, may be selected every Summer, along with the cabbages, with confidence by strangers visiting Mount cucumbers and other green things. Mt. Des. Desert. ert is anything but n desert, now; its name "Tutto fa il ware Maggiore," said the is felt to be misapplied; it is, rather, a bright painter Titian; and certainly the sea, in many onsis in the trackless expanse of waters that ways, is calculated to make a people great. surround it. The charm of its antiquity, of The continued prosperity of all great nations its historic and legendary interest, still lin- situated upon the seaboard is a sufficient tes- gers about it, however, like some subtle per- timony to the truth of these words, This fume, and surrounds the loiterer on its rocky may be considered as not entirely due to the shores with an atmosphere of poetry and commercial privileges and facilities for inter- romance. Artists, ever prying into the course among nations afforded by the broad mysteries of nature and seeking to discover highway of the ocean; n subtler influence is hidden secrets, new combinations of form and that produced by the salt water upon the life color, fell upon this spot, years ago, and and health of a nation the powers of the Church was among the first to portray its mind and body are undoubtedly invigorated novel and striking characteristics. It is a re- by the sea breezes and the constitutional markable fact that those who have always powers of a nation thereby strengthened. As lived by the HAIT water never weary of their individuals, we recognize the blessings of a love for the sea; it may be fickle, changeable "cottage by the sen" during the hot weather, and trencherous, yet within its blue depths and the watering-places along the New Eng- there is an attraction which they cannot re- land coast are well thronged. Mount Desert, sist. Nowhere can the sea be seen in all its by its situation, bonsts particular advantages, majesty and in all its varying moods to a and no better hotel can be found mywhere greater advantage than at Mount Desert. A along shore than the Rodick House nt Bar residence at this place during the Sum- Haibor, where Daniel Rodick, one of the mer possesses many advantages which oldest inhabitants, presides and tells his do not belong to other watering-places, graphic stories of the many interesting spots the greatest of these being the total to be seen this ancient island. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. absence of all stiff-necked gentility, The lovers of good fishing and gunning can of all that pomp, spleudor and cere- find no better place in which to indulge their inony which is characteristic of too many sporting propensities than at Mount Desert. sea-side resorts. The people who pass the This wild and romantic spot still retains Summer here leave their big trunks and so- many of its ancient haunts, untouched by city manners nt home and enjoy themselves the prosaic aspects of modern civilization, in a thoroughly healthy and sensible way. and nowhere can the full benefits of "camp- There are a great many Boston families ing out," of which the Rev. Mr. Mitch- here, and some who make this place ell has recently spoken so forcibly an habitual Summer retreat have erect- and eloquently, no more thoroughly en- ed cottages of their own in desirable locali- joyed. The conveniences and comforts of ties. There is a number of excellent hotels civilized life are. however, not wholly on this island-the principal ones being at wanting, and the elegant and spacious hotels Bar Harbor-several of which have been at Bar Harbor have been built with especial erected within the last few years to meet the regard to the requirements of those who come increasing demand for suitable accommoda- to this spot from a distance and desire to tions occasioned by the throng of strangers make an extended stay. The Hayward from all parts of the country who crowd to House is most conveniently located on one of this spot, every Summer. Thinking that a the most desirable sites on the island, with a slight description of the locality and the sur- fine view of the mountains and the sea; the roundings of some of these "easeful inns" house is kept in a superior manner by the might not only be interesting but useful as a proprietor, A. L. Hayward, and the tables are sort of directory to your readers, you will find well laid; the prices, too, are moderate. below appended n résumé of some of the most The Agamont House, T. Roberts proprietor, prominent. is another of these fine hotels at Bar Harbor; Let us suppose the traveller arrived at this it is the nearest to the sea-shore, and from its most delightful of all watering-places. The windows and piazza fine views are afforded first point he touches after leaving Portland of the harbor, and the guests can see the is the Southwest Harbor. The largest and steamer as she glides up to the landing and finest hotel in this vicinity isthe Island House, recognize, mayhap, among those on board overlooking the whole harbor, kept by H. H. the faces of friends and acquaintances. Car- Clark, who furnishes carriages, boats, guides ringes are always at the disposal of the pa- and every facility for the enjoyment of his trons of the house and excursions may very guests. If the traveller choose to make this easily be made to Eagle Lake, Hadlock's his stopping place, he will find some charming Pond, Carroil's Mountain, Echo Lake, Devil's drives and raubles in this vicinity; but if he Den, Spouting Horn, and other attractive decide to go further, he will find, as he skirts spots. The drive to Eden from Bar Harbor the shore, an attractive panorama presenting may be also mentioned as full of delightful itself to his gaze; gray cliffs and border- interest. ing hills, and here and there, close to the sea Thus I have endeavored to give you some line, n fisherman's hut. Soon he reaches idea of Mount Desert. The description of Bar Harbor, passing on his way Schooner the island itself, its wild and romantic char- Head, Great Hend, and the Porcupine Islands. acter, will enable you to form some concep- If he makes his head-quarters at the Hamor tion of what out-door life may be made amid House he will find it delightfully situated and this charming scenery, and the description of affording fine views of the sea and surround- the hotels will suit those who do not desire ing country. The proprietors, F. & H. Rod- pleasure at the cost of some rough work, and rick, will show him every attention, and in- who wish to have a full realization of what troduce him to the attractions of a region "taking one's ease in an iun truly signifies. widely known for its romantic beauty. Without thus showi up the two sides of life Islands have always been considered the here, the picture would not be complete. most delightful places in which to pass the SQUIHOB. hot Summer season. Surrounded by the sea, the temperature is alw. ays even and cool, and the long,regular swell of the ocean, stretching far into the distance, suggests thoughts of peace and calm that bring a rest to the troubled spirit. For these reasons, if there were no others, Mount Desert would possess a powerful attraction for the Summer visi- tant; but when, in addition to the favorable situation, are joined the charins of beautiful inland scenery, wild and picturesque moun- tains "and lakes and standing pool," then are the traveller's feet irresistibly drawn elther. Many prefer* " camping out" in this island to living at hotels, thinking that thus they are brought nearer to Nature, and can better "hold communion with her visible forms;" but there are others to whom such a life of hardship would be entirely dis- tasteful, and to these the comforts which the elegant hotels situated at Bar Harbor afford cannot be overestimated. The Atlantic House is one of the most excellent of these, and in- deed the most in some respects can be found at sea-shore retreat. 18 and roomy, fitted up with par- lors, well-ventilated sleeping and is surmounted by a large one of the best pano- ramic of that Jancing views obtained The apartments, that It proprietors halls. inviting nowly mountain, reception giving spacious, built, stopping-place celebrated rooms, forest large any and private lake can be at this watering- place. are John H. Douglass and Fdwin G, Desisle, and their names are guaranties of the good treatment and home- like privilege to be found at their hospitable mansion. The many and great attractions which the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Mount Desert. Boston Daily Globe (1872-1960); Aug 13, 1875; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Boston Globe (1872 - 1901) pg. 5 Mount Desert. If there is one place more than another on the coast of Maine that has become an attractive spot for summer tourists, that place is Mt. Desert. Its scenery is unequalled in variety, and those who spend even a few days there carry away with them some of the grand and inspiring fentures of the locality. Mt. Desert has been popularized during the past five years. The trip there from Portland is a delightful one. There are now over a dozen good hotels at Bar Harbor, and private families re- celve guests at reasonable prices. At Southwest Harbor. also, there are excellent hotel privileges. The price of board at either place has been reduced, and the hotels are all supplied with pure water, brought from Eagle Lake. The flow of pleasure- Breheis to Mt. Desert. this season, has been steady and larger than last year. A chear excursion to this place is now offered by the management of the Portland and Machias Steamboat Company. Cyrus Sturievent, Erq., general agent at Portland, has per- fented arrangements by which. for the sum of $8. excursionists can go from Boxton to Bar Harbor and return; And $7 10 Southwere Harbor and return, via railroad from Boston; or for $1 from Portland to Bar Harbor and return. This is one of the 1110-1 de- sitable trips in New England. Excursion tickets will be good until October 4th. State-rooms und through tickets can be secured in Boston of J. W. Richardson, agent. No. 228 Washington street. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Samuel G. Ward to Mary G. W. Dorr New York. 24 Nov 176 My dear Mary: It was very kind of you to think of sending us, on deposit, so faithful a reminder of the view from the villa as your picture. It does you great credit too, but I hope you will not let your success lead you off into oil painting to the neglect of water colors and besides, I heard with concern of the time you spent over your work out of doors, to the great risk, I should fear - of your health. I cannot stand any length of time so employed. One forgets ones self & meantime the breeze is blowing or the dews rising, or the sun blazing on you. In a sheltered nook, a verandah, out of a window, or sitting in a carriage, it is different. My objections to oil for amateurs are, that any real technical excellence, or power of expressing ideas, without being hampered by the medium, is hardly possible except to an artist whose life has been devoted to it; while in water colour the material helps you. The tints in themselves are lovely (which they are often not in oil) and half an hourswork, or less, will give you numerous & delicate skies & distances that no amount of labor would give in oil. Then there is a fascination in the slightness of the means St. often a little sketch in brown ink & Sepia , & gray - or OLL gray paper with white - gives an effect like magic. I like sketches always (amateurs I mean) to be done in a book, 6 or 7 inches by 4 or 5, so as to be carried in the pocket, : always ready Samuel G. Ward to Mary G. W. Dorr -2- New York. 24 Nov 176 SO that it makes a precious journal afterwards. They curl up to be sure with a wash, but they come flat again. I find my old sketch books of five times the interest to myself & others, that any separate sketches are. It is a great had resource & I wish I have more of them, & more chance to add to them - but this country is not favorable. Anna, who wrote you by Charles whom we enjoyed see- ing very much, sends much love to you, with which I am ever Yours affectionately Sam'l G. W. Automatic writing. Apart from the early delveopments of spiritualism in England and America in the eighteen forties and on, much interest was taken when I was a boy in what was called 'automatic writing and very curious things sometimes came from it. After my brother's death 187.6 in New York, of a sudden fever while we were in England, my mother sought, if he still lived in spirit, if she might not get into communication with him, if only fragmentary and disjointed, through such writing, my father putting his hand on hers while she held the pencil. In this way during the following summer and after much was written which she believed night come from my brother, neither she nor my father knowing while the pencil wrote what was coming. Baseless or not, it was a help to my mother in a time 01 great need, for her bond with my brother had been exceedingly close and intimate. Much of the thought that came in this way, whatever its source was exceedingly interesting, not only to IV mother but to othera years afterward to whom she read it. This automatic writing lead to hershowing kindness to the American Secretary of the English Psychical Research Socity, es- tablished in Boston by the English Society for investigation of mediums and experimental work. The English Society stood very high in its personel and aims. Men like Sir Oliver Lodge, one Writing -2 of the leading physicists in the world at that time, Sir Arthur Balfour and his sister, the wife of Professor Henry Sidgwick of Cambridge University, and other University men all took part in it, funds were raised and experiments carried on under strict scientific observation, and annual and semi-annual reports were published, all of a high grade, and commanding respect. Another of the world's great physicists, Sir Arthur Crookes, was actively interested in it and carried on experiments himself, not hesitating to come forward with his conclusion that there was real matter in it for careful study and hope of results which, if proven true, might be of infinite importance to the world. Another leadergin the formation and work of this society was Frederick Myers, son of a clergyman in the north of England and a University man himself and author of high standing. He was brought to it by a great tragedy in his own life in which some one very dear to him had died and of whose survival after death, if nothing more, he hoped to get evidence. Passionately interested and following up everyclue, he wrote a book 'The Survival of Man', published only after years of work, in two stout volumes, which is the only really sound and authoritative work on the subject as a whole which has ever been published and contains material, well authenticated which is alike hard to accept and difficult to dis-credit. The man sent out from England to take up the work in America Richard Hodgson, was an Autralian by birth, a recent graduate of Cambridge University in England who first came into relation with Automatic Witing -3 the subject through an extraordinary experience of his own while he was still at the University, in connection with the sudden un-looked for death of a girl in Australia whom he was engaged to when he came out to England. His story of it, told me in convincing detail when he was staying with us once at Oldfarm I donot now recall but put it in the category of facts neither to be explained nor easily to be credited. Coming into contact with him, as did I, through William James, himself deeply interested in the work and in close touch concerning it with the English Society, my mother invited Mr. Hodgson down to stay with us at Oldfarm where he made long visits afterward and became intimate with us both, my mother and I. And through him in 18 we came into intimate relation also with Frederick Myers on his coming out to America to look up some of the phenomena Richard Hodgson had made report of to the Society, Myers coming out to stay with us at Oldfarm for a week or more when we took, with other friends whom we had staying with us, long walks together and had much intimate talk. This was in the lots 1880's later eighteen eighties. In 1891 my father, mother and I went abroad for a year to spend the winter on the Nile and the spring in Palestine and Greece, an exceedingly interesting trip. When 1891 we returned, reaching Boston in the early July 1892, where we 1892 stayed a day or two on our way to Bar Harbor, Richard Hodgson met us full of certain extraordinary experiences which had developed that winter and spring in which people we knew, some of them intimately, came intimately in and which Dr. Hodgeon (to give him his full academic title) regarded as convincing -definite proof Automatic Writing =4 of survival and immediate contact. Among the people most intimately concerned were Mrs. Perry, wife of Professor Thomas Perry- grandson of Commander Perry, ofamous in our Navy annals - the and his wife, daughter of one of the leading surgeons of my father's time Dr. Cabot, and sister of one of the leading surgeons of my own time in Boston, Dr. Arthur Cabot. The evidence con- cerned someone who had been exceedingly intimate in the Perry household and had died of an accident some months before. There were three daughtera in the Perry family, the youngest of whom a child at that time eight years old, to whom this friend intimate in the house, had shown great kindness and who received her experiences, with the simplicity of a child, as perfectly natural happendings, not becoming in any way extited over them or seeking to draw attention to herself by telling of them, which I heard of directly only through her mother, though her whole family, her father included, believed in implicitly. It was one of those durious cases which lend themselves to no explanation, can be credited with difficulty, yet seem impossible to reject. Such phenomena cannot be produced at will and much evidence must be forthcoming before the age-long experi- ence of man-kind in contradiction can be overturned. The phenomena ceased; too much publicity could not be given to the matter on the family's account and though it roused great interest in England when reported out by Dr. Hodgson to the Psychical Research Society, it passed into the general gathering of material which neither could be explained away nor accepted assevidential. It had, however, a Automatic Writing -5 profuona effect upon Dr. Hodgson in relation to his further work, for he was 80 convinced of the truth of it as establishing evi- dence of survival that he deased to doubt and took a less critical attitude toward later developments, some of which I was frankly convinced myself must have come from the mediums own mind, the medium through whom Dr. Hodgson was working at that time and con- tinued to work with till he died a few years afterward, being one famous in the general investigations of the subject. The child to whom these extraordinary phenomena came and who received them so naturally and unhesitatingly became the wife when she grew up of Joseph Grew distinguished in the United States Diplomatic Service, at one time Ambassador to Japan, at another to Turkey and Ambassador now to Italy. Her father, Thomas Perry, was Professor of English Literature at Harvard, a writer of note and professor later of Philosophy, on the invita- tion of the Japanese Government, at the University of Tokyo for two years. He, like his wife, believed without question in the genuinensss and veridical character of these phenomena, which were not the only ones that had taken place in the family. I remember Mrs. Perry telling me of this same child when, still younger, telling her, when they were out in their house in the country which had been the home before them of Mrs. Perry's father, of a kind old lady coming in to sit by her bedside till she went asleep, whom as she told it her mother recognized as describing, unmistagably to her, her own mother, the child's grandmother who Automatic Writing =6 had lived there before them. The child showed no excitement over it but took it up on the basis of an actual happending; the lady had come and sat by her and she was a kind lady whom she had liked to have there. Twower three times afterward the same figure appeared to the child in the same way, then came no more. Mrs. William James the wife of Professor William James of Harvard had also certain remarkable experiences which she told me of, in one of which her daughter, Margaret or Peggy, had re- ceived a message, through some medium that Richard Hodgson was investigating, from her aunt, William James' sister, who had died not long before and wished, as I recall it, to have given in remembrance of her certain family property. The details of it have passed from my mind but of the extraordinary character of the communication, whatever its source might be, remains vividly impressed upon my mind. Mrs. James was an extraordinarily good 'sitter', seldom going to visit Dr. Hodgson without getting some- thing of exceptional interest, while William James himself, more interested than she to get matter of scientific value, was himself a poor 'sitter', seldom getting phénomena of the type he sought. And knowing them both as well as I did, it seemed to me natural it should be so, Mrs. James had a restful, naturally receptive character which could but fail, if there were anything genuins in the penomena, to bring it out, while William James with his restless, actively questioning mind would have just the opposite effect of getting resalts dependence upon the establishment any form of a sympathetic reaction. 1/07 EDWARD SIMMONS FROM SEVEN TO SEVENTY Memories of a Painter and a Yankee By Edward Simmons With an Interruption by OLIVER HERFORD FULLY ILLUSTRATED ot Publishers aleat HARPER & BROTHERS Clossma. Riplyy's NEW YORK AND LONDON 1922 Seven to Seventy ford graduate and, according to Chapter III: In Search of a Career and yet he has substituted the 'gay' and 'blithesome' in that Out W est of the Friar in the line which and lecherous as a sparwe." H ARVARD had taught me this-that I did not know a thing-not even the meaning of human life. Somehow I think a college education is of benefit to two classes of people only-those who desire to acquire a social position and those who want to get training in a certain subject. I have not the battle instinct and could never see any use in competition. If I had not come of good people I might have wanted to fight to get with good people, and that is about all college can give. I can remember getting only one real thrill to go out in the world and do something, and that was after a sort of valedictory talk by old Doctor Grey. I had always cared for the out of doors and it appears I stood well in botany. When the venerable professor told us that it takes fifty years to make a nutmeg orchard, and that a million dollars was waiting anyone who would walk into Boston with him the next day and prove to certain capitalists that he could tell the difference between the male and female nutmeg, my commercial instinct was aroused and a gleam of ambition came to me for the first time. I resolved to find out about the male and the female nutmeg. There was no way to learn anything about beauty in Harvard-no instruction in it and no honors for it. Taking their cue from the Pligrim Fathers and, since then, the Church, they did not believe in the value of any of the senses of the body, but only in the quality 43 44 From Seven to Seventy In Search of a Career 45 of the human mind and the power to ratiocinate. Any honest way to teach, as it hypnotizes the listeners. expression or feeling for beauty, except that made by Reading a speech coolly the next morning in the news- sacred music, was common, vulgar, and to be repressed. paper is the only fair way to judge it. My father felt If Harvard could manage to produce one Corot, one this and changed his preaching into a dry, matter-of- Beethoven, or one Michael Angelo, her name would fact style, not caring to influence by his personality. be known longer in future ages than it will be for all He immediately lost his audience. the small imitation Shakespeares she has sent out over Groping for an occupation, I went to New York and, the country. Even Mr. Emerson, in my opinion, was with a half-formulated idea to become an architect, half ashamed of his lyrical gift; and the elder Story, called on Russel Sturgis. He was a blond-headed the sculptor, is more honored in Boston for a law book young man, about thirty-five, and seemed to me to he wrote, before thirty, than for any of his statues. be quite old and efficient. Looking at me very keenly, One day in Mr. Story's studio, in Europe, was a he said: group of American business men who always made "Do you know anthing about the bearing power of it more or less one of their loafing places. Of course, bricks?" they had all been well bred enough to wander around "No." and see what the old man had been working at lately, "Do you care anything?" but it was not long before they were settled down over "No." their cigars, discussing the business of stocks and "Have you any rich relatives to back you?" bonds-what they were all thinking about and all "No." they really cared about. Story stood it as long as he "You don't want to be an architect. You want to could, walking nervously up and down in silence. be a painter." Finally he whirled, saying: This quite astonished me, for I rather thought I "Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, Phidias built did, although I had never formulated the desire in my the Parthenon. Who in hell were the stockholders?" mind. Besides, to be a painter was not an occupation- After my graduation, it was a question of a career. but rather on par with a strolling player, a tinker, or a I had spent four years to find out that I did not know mountebank. Mr. Sturgis told me that my ideas were anything, and was to spend three more to find out what all wrong and that the painters of the day were real I wanted to do. All my ancestors had lived by talk. people and, furthermore, making a lot of money. Of I had inherited the "gift of gab," but there seemed to course, I could not start in then, but resolved to hold be no market for it in my generation. It had turned the thought in the back of my mind. In the meantime, from the pulpit to the stage and novels, in order to get my New England coat was feeling SO tight as almost an audience. Rhetoric and fiery oratory is not an to burst the seams if I did not get out of it. I wanted In Retrospect 343 my boyhood-I marvel at those who say that the world Chapter XVI: In Retrospect is going backward. The advance of one human being is comparable to the advance of the whole race-it is the resultant force I ONCE started a sonnet to "My Soul," but, having of a spiral spring. At the bottom of the coil is Realism; written one line, I found that I had said all- at the top, Idealism and, although we are a long time Cross-hatched with many a shameful scar. in getting around the circle, the progress is as certain as the air we breathe. It is doubtful if I have a soul, but if so, I am sure All these changes should make me feel old, but they that if it shows scars of victory, they are the results don't. Like Barton Hill, who went to call upon an old of battles that should not have been fought. friend and mistaking the daughter (who came to greet We have never been a religious family, as I look back. him) for her mother, said: The future? For me it is here. My mother understood. Think of the agony of a woman who had never had a "Now I solve the wondrous question, Now I find what I did lack. hand laid upon her since she was a child, lying com- You've stolen some years from your mother pletely helpless, paralyzed for six years! The last time And forgot to give them back." I saw her, I said: "Mother, you and I know what we believe about a I do not wish to belong to my own generation. future life?" "Whom the gods love, die young" does not mean that She nodded feebly. they die when they are young, but that they are young "You are unhappy here?" when they die, and I could not ask anything finer Again the nod, with a pathetic look in her eyes. I from a generous Creator. leaned over and whispered in her ear. I have been happy from the time I was born. It "Mother, I hope you die to-night." may be that time covers with an ivy of forgetfulness the No one knew of our conversation, but I was told early wounds and renders them less hideous, but I do afterward that she wrote on her slate that evening, not think SO in my own case. I am a lover; I am "Edward has cheered me up greatly." happy because I love all things. I feel like our Irish I see that I have always felt this way and have tried cook who brought in a fish from the river, cooked it, to live the fullest life possible. When I think of the and proceeded to consume it all, clutching it at the progress of mankind during my seventy years-from tail and eating all the way up, saying, lamps to electricity, from horses to gasoline, from slow "It's all very swate; it's all very swate." mails to wireless, and the aeroplane bringing the other Since a boy, I have been able to take an interest in continent as near to us to-day as the next town was in 342 COMMENGEMENT EXERCISES. The procession was formed at Memorial Hall about ten o'clock. Arthur L. Devens was the class marshal. The usual order was observed. EVENING TRANSCRIPT Governor Talbot and staff and several distin- guished guests arrived about ten o'clock. At half- INE WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24, 1674. past ten o'clock the procession, headed by the Germania Band, marched to Appleton Chapel, HARVARD COLLEGE. where the usual commencement exercises took place. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Peabody, and the following parts were delivered: re re- Two Hundred and Thirty-third Commence. shing- D)squiritiona-Exment Francis Fenollosa, "Pan- ment Exercises. theirm"; William Royal Tyler, "Ruskin's Art Throries.' st, Dinsertations-Frederick Joseph Stone. "Social- 102 The FONS of old Harvard are gathered together in in its Connection with the Labor Movement" Theodore Rewall, "The English Agricultural LA- today to repew their love and respect for their borer": Charlen Francis Withington, "Tragelly. alma mater and witness the exercises incident to Classical and Romantic." G the 283d commencement. The assemblage of tac- ()ration-George Wigglesworth, "The Emperor ulty, students, friends and visitors began at an Joreph II." early hour and the beautiful grounds of the hon- At the conclusion of these exercises the degrees ored Institution presented a lively and animated were conferred as follows: scene. The dedication exercises had called to- RACHELORS OF ARTS. gether so many of the alumni that the usual greet- William Fitzhale Abbot, Jacob Lloyd Abbot, D. Richard Minot Allen, Eugene Nelson Aston, Fran- ings of commoncement day had been in a meas- cis ard Baker, Charles Parker Bancroft, Henry Hud- Eaton Babcock, Walter Baker. William How- ure anticipated by the experiences of yesterday. A fairer day never shone; the breezy atmosphere Barrett, George A. C. Bendelari, Thom and the absence of all meteorological hinderances 'on Sinims Bettens, Woodbury Blair, George Andreas IT. combine to make the occasion as delightful and George Rusrell Briggs, John Chapin Brinsmade, Buf- Blaney, Erastus Brainerd. John Winters Brannan, with brilliant as the most devoted could wish. Alexander Porter Browne, Charles Thomas MEKTING OF THE OVERSEERS. fum, Henry Morgan Burdett, William Appleton Hurnham, William Burry, James Jackson Cabot, int. Gore Hall will no'more be the scene of the day; that body have assembled today in Memo- Thomas tert Henry Cecil Cate. Clarke, Cary, Henry Blake Clark,Charl George Arthur Clapp. Her- CHI- Kel- Edward Warren Cate, meetings of the overfeers on commencement Chisbolm, Arthur Alden Clark, Louis Crawford Samuel Belcher Clarke, any rial Hall. The meeting was held at nine o'clock, ford, George Oliver George Coale, Frederic President (lifford in the chair, and Hon. N.B. ley Collium, Thomas Corlier, Henry Horatio Crock- Fregeric Cunningham, Frederic Spaulding 1 ORK Shurtleff, secretary, at his post. er, Cutter, l'aul Dana, Richard Henry Dana, J The president submitted votes of the corpora- Arthur Lithgow Devens, Jacob Edward Ditson, Ja. ad tion conferring the usual academic degrees, on Nathan Hankell Dole, George Bucknam Dorr, those who were recommended by the several fac- cob Dwight, Louis Dyer, William Hamuel Kiwood, Kllot, John Wheelock Elliot, Francis Worcester ulties, and the board concurred. The president John Woodford Farlow, Jacob Hamilton Farrar, also presented a vote of the corporation appoint- ing George F. H. Markoe instructor in materia Edward Mortumer Ferris, George Russell Fessen- Francis Child Faulkner, Ernest Francis Fenollosa, medica for the ensuing year. Hon. Mr. Brim- den, Bernard Whitman Flagg. Francis Byron mer preaented a report in favor of estab- lishing a professorship of zoology, and , the board concurred with the corporation in establishing the same. The president presented a vote electing John McCrady, A. B., is professor of zoology, and the same was referred to a committee rr. consisting of Messrs. Theodore Lyman, Martin ID, Brimmer and William A. Richardson. Votes were passed conferring the degree of bachelor of arts out of course on the following-named persons: Francis Benjamin Arnold '66, Henry Harrison Haynes '73. The same degree was conferred upon the fol- lowing-named persons at the last meeting of the board, and were first made public today: Lewis Allen Dodge '65, Albro Elmore Chave '65, ,18 Frederick Stout Stallkneight '43, Thomas Dwight '66, E. Prentin Tucke '46. nn three cents a pound, to take effect the J. Foxcroft Cole and Albert Thompson sall In Irt of January next. On books bound ten center SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS, the Pereire next Saturday. volume, unbound, at newspaper rates, w take K. I.. Booth, a Cambridge lady, who has studied effect at once, Ins with William Hunt and with European masters. Butler. funding that he had utterly failed In his to Due 1894, effort to kill the civil service reform, tried very has R very strong head at Doll & Richards's. hard to get in his usual resolution requiring pref. Mr Interest March and September. Prence to be given to soldiers and sallors in the Special Notices. several departments of the Government. Objee H tion being made It was ruled out. HII COUPON OR REGINTERED, The Henate Appropriation Committee today hot HARVARD COLLEO L asked and received consent to sit during the re- FOR MALK BY Her can for the purpose of inquiring into the expe AKI dieucy of Instituting reforms in the several (IDDER, PEABODY & co., branches of the civil service, with a view of mak- Mt. The Association of the Alumal of Harvard ing reductions in the expenses of the Govern. of ment. Gar BREWSTER, SWEET & CO., College. of ) There are rome half-dozen leading committees that have received permission to sit during recess. 40 State Street. They do I ot propose to commence operations or Bt jel8 The Annual Meeting of this Association will be held hold meetings till the middle or last of September. in Harvard Hall, up stairs, at Cambridge, on Corn- The President is at the Capital, busily engaged in signing bills. All of the appropriations are 87 Clark, Adams & Clark. mencement Day, WEDNEADAY, June 24, at one o'clock passed and signed by the President. There are piles P. M. With the assent and cooperation of the Corpor- large numbers of bills waiting to be enrolled, and x The ation, the usual Commencement Dinner will be Kiven It will be nearly four 'clock before everything in M7 RENCH CHINA, by the Association, All graduates of one year's stand. leared up. KAPPA. 53 ing. and all who have received honorary degrees, are ANTON CHINA, MUSIC members, and are entitled is free tickets, which will be FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. chil W furnished in the froom In Massachusetts 11,Where BOB the voting for Overseers takes place. between the MS UT GLA88, hours of 10 and 2, on the day of the Dinner. (Special Despatch to the Transcript.) daw SAMUEL A. GREEN, Secretary Nan E GLA88, 13.15.17.20.22.23 d, HALL HARVARD UNIVERMITY. A CHEERFUL FEELING. IRIAN MARBLE, C'ommeneement Exercises, June D4, 1874, Nr YORK, June 23. The general interpreta. Appleton Chapel. tion in Wall street of the currency bill, which has now become a law, in that the measure in mild ONZE8, Members of the various University bodies, Invited expansion, and a cheerful feeling prevails in glients, candidates for degrees, and students of the PLACE, financial circles, with continued buoyancy in the ATED WARE, University will assemble at Memorial Hall at 9¥ stock market. Now that Congress has about fin. o'clock. The procession will be formed at 10 o'clock. ished its business for the season there is a feeling The chapel will o pan for ladina o'clock of relief and hopefulness in all departments of TLERY, ETC. 21 JAMES W. HARRIM, Merretary general trade. CLASS OF 1835. THE MONT IMPORTANT POINTS Entrance from Winter St. in the present change of the financial situation is 6t Je22 Room No. 17 Holworthy no more calling upon the Government for aid in reasons of stringency in the money market, and will be open for the Class Comnmencement Day. `URNITURE, that the late Increase of twenty-eix millions to the CHAS. HENRY PARKER greenback currency is made permanent. je 23 It Class Sec'y. THE RAILROAD COMMIPSIONERS OF ILLINOIS FIRST CLASS ONLY, CLASS OF 1648. are discussing a plan to secure the cooperation of all description, made to order. the Iowa and Wisconsin commissioners to prose- Room No. 37 Matthews Hall, will be open for the cute the railroads under the several State laws MANTELS Class on Conamencement Day. whenever they are violated. A suit has been GEORGE H. GAY, brought in Indiana by the stockholders of the Rt. 10 different styles and shapes. Louis & Southeastern Railroad to force the road je 23 119 Class Merretary into bankruptcy, and proceedings will be vigor- MIRRORS CLANN or 1444. ously prosecuted. Room No. 53 Thayer Hall will be open for the Class STOCKS OPENED STRONG Match. on Commencement Day. Class Meeting at 11 M. The and buoyant this morning. tismal collation will be provided. TWO AMALL FAILURES LIBRARY CASES. EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT. among the bears are announced this morning. M. Je23 119 Class Mecretary. A. Platt and M, Caldwell, members of the board, CLANM OF 1854. ment in their notice that they were compelled to CH CHAMBER SETS suspend on their short contracts in Union Pacfic, Class Supper at Parker's, at seven o'clock P. M., Lake Shore, Pacific Mail and New York Central. June 23. Several lots of these stocks were accordingly BINETS, PEDESTALS, TABLES, Stoughton Hall No. will be open for members on bought in under the rule, for the account of cred. Commencement Day. DAVID H. COOLIDGE, !tors. The amount of shares short is about five LETC., ETC. je 20 3t Class Secretary. thousand. The market became weaker upon this MPLES AT 12 WESTST. jact becoming known, and prices sold down some- CLASS OF 1856. what. (a ROOM 15. Stoughton will be open for the use of the class GOLD of Commencement Day. opened strong at 112, and afterwards sold down to ons. C. J. Soyard. W. W. BURRAGE 111% Sterling exchange opened steady and un- je 2t9 Class Secretary. changed at 4881/4 and 491. Money continues easy Thic HARVARD COLLEGE. CLASS OF 1860 at 31/4 wA per cent. O. FIFTY CASKS No. 20 Stoughton will be open to the Class on Com THE RHODE ISLAND SENATOR- mencement Day. W. E. PERKINS, -OF- je 23 It Class Secretary. SHIP. nglish CLASS OF 1864. Hollis 20 will be open for the use of the Class or Com ANOTHER BALLOT-NO CHOICE. Oa mencement Day. Business Meeting 12 M. The Class will dine at Taft's Hotel, TUESDAY Cu EVENING, at o'clock. The propellor C. H. Hersey Decorated will leave the end of Long Wharf parcisely at 53 for a (Special Despatch to the Transcript.) mail among the Islands, reaching Point Shirley in time for the dinner. W.L. RICHARDSON, Class Secretary. 2t9 je TROVIDENCE, June 23. Nineteenth ballot-Burn- HARVARD COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1863. side 41, Dixon 26, Barstow 16, Brown 10, Sheffield DINNER SETS Room No. 1 Thayer Hall will be open for the use of 6, Jenckes 4, Binney 2. The convention adjourned the Class on Commencement Day. for today. 8. Business Meeting at at The Class will dine together at the Parker House, on FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS-First Session. 7 TUESDAY EVENING, June 23d, at 7 o'clock. NEW STYLE OF DECORATION, and from a T. FRANK BROWNELL, of cy for whose goods in this market we have the je 2t4 Class Secretary. WASHINGTON, June 23. ive control. HARVARD COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1869. SENATE. Tapes demand for English Decorated Rets having in- Holworthy 9 will he open for the Class on Commence- The Senate met at ten o'clock. Cloth d to such air extent within the last year, we ment Day, June 24th. Mr. Washburn of Massachusetts called up the een obliged to import the above large stock in Business Meeting at 1.15. House bill to fix salarios of clerks at the United many to. All orders for sets of any desired number of Members are again reminded that the full balance of States armory in Springfield, Mass., which was passed. Also the Senate bill granting a pension sold t To insure the sale of the same we have placed their subscription to the Class Fund is now due. to Margaret Hastings. Passed. goods at LOWER PRICES than they have ever THOMAS P. BEAL, Mr. Morrill of Maine, submitted a resolution au- ffered. Please examine at store or send by mail je 22 2t Class Secretary. thorizing the Committees on Appropriations of its and Prices. CLASS OF 1870. each House of Congress, to sit at the capitol dur- No. 2 Holworthy will be open for members of ing the recess, to inquire as to what reforms can FOR FULL CATALOG - Full View of Record Page 1 of 2 Harvard University HOLLIS CATALOG Tectum Search Results List My Account/Renew VE Expanded Search Previous Searches Comments/Requests 01/07/07 TAS Start Over Command Search Display Options Help Full Catalog Find Articles Journal Titles Digital Resources Reserves Full View of Record : FULL CATALOG Print/Save/Send Add to List I View List Last Browse Back to Results List Choose format: Full view I Short view MARC Record 17 out of 28 Previous Record Next Record Author : Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885. Title : Papers of John Langdon Sibley, 1831-1885. INTERNET LINK : http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:628387 [ Link to transcription of Private journal ] Locations/Orders : Availability Location : Networked Resource i [Transcription of Private journal] Holdings Availability Location : Harvard Archives i HUG 1791.72 [Private journal (2 v.)] Holdings Availability Description : 28 linear ft. of mss. History notes : Sibley (1804-1885) earned his Harvard AB 1825. He served Harvard as Librarian (1825-1877, non-contiguous service) and editor of Triennial and Quinquennial catalogues of Harvard graduates. He was also the owner and editor of the "American magazine of useful and entertaining knowledge." Summary : Includes correspondence, mostly professional, diaries, journals, manuscripts, historical notes, and clippings. Included is Sibley's private journal, 1846-1865 and 1866-1882; Collectanea Biographica Harvardiana, Volumes 1- 31, containing alumni biographies with additions by Sibley; manuscripts of biographical sketches, 1873-1885, and other research material about Harvard graduates; lectures about Montgomery and Arnold's expeditions to Quebec; and accounts of Sibley's American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. Related publications and reference material also available in repository. Restrictions : At least one location has information and/or restrictions on access. Click on the holdings link(s) for specific information. Other forms : Collectanea Biographica Havardiana are available on microfilm (11 reels, 35mm.) at Harvard University Archives. Harvard Library journal on negative microfilm. Private journal available on microfilm at Harvard University Archives. Notes : See also: Records of the Harvard College Library maintained by John Langdon Sibley including papers (UAIII 50.28.56) and his library journal (UAIII 50.28.56.2); Sibley's own annotated copy of V. 1-3 of Biographical sketches of Harvard Graduates (HUG 1791.8); Sibley's letter to Rev. Augustus R. Pope of Kingston, Mass., regarding biographical information on Harvard graduates, which forms a part of George Goodspeed's scrapbook of Harvardiana. Subject : Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885. Note: Toote notes and made Subject : Harvard University -- Libraries. Harvard University -- Students. photocopies of J.L.Sibley's Harvard -- -- University Libraries Employees. Private Journal 1846-1882 Subject : American magazine of useful and entertaining knowledge. Subject : Québec (Quebec) -- History. (HUG 1791.72-10), pp. 676-686 Form/Genre Diaries. covered the Class of 1874 graduation in R.H.Epp ceremony. 1874 Chronology Filed file. http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/5YIBH7LY488GDRRRS736B66VXGFCSTSL9VS8K97U2IT 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 1 of 912 Harvard University Archives | HOLLIS | OASIS Harvard/Radeliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf John Langdon Sibley's diary (known as Sibley's private journal), 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) John Langdon Sibley, A.B. 1825, Grad. Div. S. 1828, served as Harvard's Assistant Librarian from 1825-1826 and 1841-1856, Librarian from 1856-1877, and Librarian, Emeritus from 1877- 1885. A noted biographer, he is best known for his Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University. Sibley was born in Union, Maine on December 29, 1804, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 9, 1885. Sibley's personal diary spans nearly 37 years, with entries beginning on January 1, 1846 and ending on August 29, 1882. In it he recorded the details of daily life, often commenting on local and national current events, as well as Harvard affairs. The diary, in its entirety, follows. The links immediately below provide quick access to decades and specific years. To search by keyword, use the Ctrl + F keys 1840s I 1850s I 1860s 1870s 1880s Transcribed by Brian A. Sullivan. Location of original diary: Harvard University Archives (HUG 1791.72.10). 1840s 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850s 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860s 1860 1861 | 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870s 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880s 1880 1881 1882 http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/20/2007 Source: John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Harvard Page 676 of 912 University Archives. as well as in Great Britain, examined various libraries, etc. June 13, 1874 Gov. Lefroy of Bermuda with his family visits the Library, inquires immediately about the gifts of Thomas Hollis, an intimate friend of his ancestor. There are but eight or nine kinds of birds on the Bermudas, no trees but evergreen, SO that New England with its unusual burden of foliage is fascinating. The Governor, or General, came by way of St. John's, New Brunswick, going to Albany thence by New York & to New England an absence of six months. He is much interested in the history of the Bermudas & wanted to see all we had on it. Gore Hall reading room & some of the alcoves washed. June 14, 1874 Richard Metcalf of Winchester preached at Appleton Chapel in the morning, and in the afternoon, Andrew Preston Peabody the baccalaureate sermon. June 15, 1874 Washing of Gore Hall finished. June 19, 1874 Notz: Graduation of G.BDORR and Classmater. Seniors Class Day. Great preparations, tents near University Press & a large one between Gore Hall & Appleton Chapel. Very rainy, great disappointment. The Class-Day Officers were Richard Henry Dana, Orator; Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, Poet; George Riddle, Odist; Edwin Garrald Merriam, Ivy Orator; George-Oliver-George Coale, Chaplain; Arthur William Foote, Chorister; Arthur Lithgow Devens, William Gordon McMillan, James Lawrence, Marshals; James Jackson Minot, Robert Alexander Southworth, William Royall Tyler, Class Day Committee; Edward Warren Cate, Francis Child Faulkner, Arthur Lewis Goodrich, Class Committee; George Partridge Sanger, Class Secretary. At 10 o'clock, Chapel open for ticket-holders, no other persons admitted until the class has entered. At 9 o'clock the Class assembles in front of Holworthy, goes to the Chapel for prayer by the Chaplain, thence to breakfast with Prof. William Everett at his residence, the old Holmes House, & thence to the Exercises in Appleton Chapel. From 3 to 5, the rain prevented the music on the green between Thayer & Hollis & Stoughton. Between 5 & 6 the Class in procession, marched rapidly through the College yard, cheered the buildings, planted the ivy & went through the exercises at the tree, where the Class Song was sung. http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 677 of 912 Class Song Around the flower-wreathed tree we stand To sing our last, our farewell song. Again to feel hand clasping hand, And glad hearts beating full and strong. And spirits from the shadow land, Through memory's golden portal throng, To tell us of the days of yore, And bid farewell to Seventy-four. The past is vanished like a dream; Before us, viewless[?] to our eyes, A silent-flowing, misty stream, The dark, uncertain future lies; But peering through the gloom we seem To see dim, beckoning forms arise, Which hold our destinies in store, And greet the class of Seventy-four. And now our voices high we raise, To bid these classic shades adieu. Forgetting not the vanished days, But pressing onward to the new; http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 678 of 912 All going in divergent ways, But every one remaining true To the dear old class of Seventy-four Farewell, farewell, dear Seventy-four. At 5 o'clock, Harvard Hall & Holden Chapel were open for those having seats at the windows. The entrance to take the seats behind Hollis & Harvard Halls was between Holden Chapel and Hollis Halls & open at 5. After the exercises at the tree, and during the remainder of the evening, a ticket required of every gentleman or of gentlemen accompanied by ladies, entering the portion of the Yard enclosed by the Rope. The entrances to the roped-off portion of the Yard, one at the end of Massachusetts, between Grays and Weld, and Thayer and Holworthy. From the close of the exercises at the Tree till 9, the President to receive the Class & their friends at his house, no gentleman admitted without a ticket. From 8 to 10 illumination of Holworthy, and the playing of the band on the Green. At 8.30 singing of the Glee Club in front of Holworthy. It was part of the plan to illuminate the College parallelogram with chinese lanterns but in consequence of the rain many of the lanterns were put up in Massachusetts where was dancing in the evening. "Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, NH 19 June 1874 "John Langdon Sibley, A.M. My dear Sir, There have been received A History of the town of Union, in the County of Lincoln Maine, by John Langdon Sibley, A.M. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, by John Langdon Sibley, A.M. http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 679 of 912 Notices of Triennial and Annual Catalogues of Harvard University by John Landon Sibley, A.M., a gift to the Library of Phillips Exeter Academy for which the Trustees direct me to return their grateful acknowledgement. The books have just come to hand, though from a mark on the package. I infer they were despatched some time ago. I wish the question written in the Sketches; "Who will write a History of Phillips Exeter Academy?" could be answered as satisfactorily as; "Who shall write Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University?" has been answered. I wish to devise some form of record book, well adapted to preserve memoranda of the students who hereafter attend the Academy. The old traditions are many of them fading away, and we need now the historian who will gather them up and preserve them. "The Trustees held their annual meeting this week I laid before them the offer made by yourself last Winter and read your letter to them. They were most gratefully impressed by the generosity of the proposition you make, and discussed at length the best means to take to make it effectual. It was the belief of the Trustees that just at the present juncture of business affairs we could not hope to match your liberality so as at present to add twenty five thousand dollars to the amount you propose I regret that we seem to be forced to this conclusion, both on our own account as receivers, and on your account who have learned so well the blessedness of giving. I do not renounce the hope that we may see our way clear, at least to organize a vigorous effort. I am very truly yours, Albert C. Perkins" June 20, 1874 Busts of the following persons carried from Gore Hall to Memorial Hall viz: Kirkland, Quincy, Everett, Walker, Felton, Sparks, Washington, Sumner, Peirce, Appleton, Farrar, Story, Bussey, Hayward, John Parker. A large number of paintings, many of them refurbished & re-varnished, several of them re-gilded or reframed are moved to Memorial Hall. June 21, 1874 In the afternoon Dr. A.P. Peabody preaches the Baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class, in the evening Professor Oliver Stearns the valedictory before the graduating class of the Divinity School. June 23, 1874 Exhibition of the Divinity School. In the afternoon Edmund Burke Willson delivered the Sermon before the Alumni Association of the Divinity School. The Memorial Hall, erected on the Delta, the old college play ground for base-ball, football, etc. was dedicated this afternoon. The alumni of the College and invited guests formed a procession at Massachusetts Hall at half past three o'clock in the following order: Germania Band http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 680 of 912 Henry Lee, Chief Marshal Aids Patrick T.Jackson Charles C. Read C. William Loring Henry Bigelow Williams Charles E. Guild Robert S. Peabody Augustus Lowell Charles C. Stratton S. Lothrop Thorndike James Barr Ames S. Parkman Blake, Jr. Henry W. Putnam George B. Chase Roger Wolcott A.J.C. Sowdon George R. Minot, Jr. Ozias Goodwin Robert S. Russell Gilbert R. Payson A. Lithgow Devens Robert Amory James Lawrence, Jr. President of the Association & Orator of the Day Chaplain of the Day (Henry Whitney Bellows) Chairman of the Committee of Fifty & of the Building Committee preceding the Committee of Fifty Trustees of the Sanders Fund Architects of Memorial Hall President & Fellows of Harvard College The Honorable and Reverend Overseers His Honor the Lieutenant Gov. of the Commonwealth & Aids Ex-Presidents of the University http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 681 of 912 Present & Past Officers of Instruction & Government in the University Officers of the United States Army and Navy Invited Officers of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion Invited Officers of the Grand Army of the Republic Subscribers to the Memorial Fund, not Alumni Mayor, Aldermen and President of the Common Council of the City of Cambridge, preceded by the Sheriff of Middlesex. Other gentlemen specifically invited. Students of Harvard University, who served in the Army and Navy during the War of the Rebellion, in the order of their classes. Alumni of Harvard College in the order of their classes Students of the University The procession extended around the entire parallelogram marching from east end of Massachusetts along east of Matthews Hall, north of Grays Hall, west of Boylston Hall, west of University & Thayer Halls, south of Holworthy, east of Stoughton, Hollis, & Harvard, the front of the procession reaching the end just as it was leaving Massachusetts Hall. Thence it marched west through the College gate, west, & round the northwest of the College yard, crossed to Kirkland Street & recrossing from the north side of Kirkland Street entered Memorial Hall on the north side of the vestibule, into the Hall west of the vestibule which was packed full of humanity. "Order of Exercises Hallelujah Chorus, From the Mount of Olives, Beethoven Prayer, By the Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D.D. Chorus, From the Oratorio of St. Paul, Mendelssohn http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 682 of 912 "Happy and blest are they who have endured" For though the body dies, the soul shall live forever" Report of the Building Committee, By their Chairman, Henry B. Rogers, Esq. Report of the Committee of Fifty, By their Chairman, Honorable John G. Palfrey Chorus From the Creation, "The heavens are telling" Haydn Address, By the Hon.Charles Francis Adams Hymn, Written for the Occasion, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, to be sung by the Assembly "Where, girt around by savage foes, Our nuturing Mother's shelter rose, Behold, the lofty temple stands, Reared by her children's grateful hands! Firm are the pillars that defy The volleyed thunders of the sky; Sweet are the summer wreaths that twine With bud and flower our martyr's shrine The hues their tattered colors bore http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 683 of 912 Fall mingling on the sunlit floor; Till evening spreads her spangled hall. And wraps in shade the storied hall. Firm were their hearts in danger's hour, Sweet was their manhood's morning flower, Their hopes with rainbow hues were bright,-- How swiftly winged the sudden night! O Mother! on thy marble page Thy children read, from age to age, The mighty word that forward[?] leads Through noble thought to nobler deeds. Truth, heaven-born Truth, their fearless guide, Thy saints have lived, thy heroes died; Our love has reared their earthly shrine, Their glory be forever thine! Benediction By Rev. Henry W. Bellows (not by Rev. James Walker) The Handel and Haydn Society have kindly volunteered for the occasion. As to Acoustics, Memorial Hall is a failure, it being impossible to hear the speaking over http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 684 of 912 half the room. After the Exercises, the President had a reception for the men. The tickets were as follows: "Dedication Day Tuesday June 23, 1874-Admit the bearer to the seats reserved for ladies at Memorial Hall Henry Lee, Chief Marshal South Door, 3 P.M. June 24, 1874 Commencement Day. From earliest knowledge the procession has been formed at the Library, wherever that was kept but to-day it was formed at Memorial Hall in the vestibule. Commencement Day. The Overseers held a meeting in Memorial Hall at 9 o'clock. As soon as they adjourned, a few minutes after 10 o'clock, the Librarian organized the procession in the vestibule of Memorial Hall, in the ordinary mode, & it marched from the south door into the College yard along the front of Holworthy, Stoughton & Appleton Chapel where the Exercises were held & degrees were conferred, the old Presidential Chair as usual being carried there from the College Library where it is kept. The oldest graduate present, was Joseph Head, H.U. 1804, who was quite indignant when asked in the afternoon if he would not ride in the procession. The order of the procession will be found in the Boston Journal. After the exercises were finished & degrees conferred, the Association of the Alumni was held at one o'clock in Massachusetts Hall, tickets for the dinner being distributed & checked in the lower part of it. To this Association report was made by the Committee of Forty on the Class Subscription Fund. Col. Henry Lee also made a report on the Harvard Memorial Fund. Between two and three o'clock, General William F. Bartlett, H.U. 1862, marshal, began to call the procession, which marched down in front of Matthews, Grays, Boylston, University, & out between Thayer & Holworthy to Memorial Hall & dined in the lower west room, eight tables extending the entire length of the room from east to west, headed by two tables on the platform from north to south. Judge Devens, Vice-President, presided in place of James Russell Lowell, President, who is in Europe. Henry Whitney Bellows said grace. After dinner, about 20 minutes to 4 o'clock, Judge Devens said: "Brethren of the Alumni. We will commence our after dinner exercises in the usual way by the psalm, which the Librarian will lead;"--which he did--the twenty-sixth time. The hall caused reverberations SO that St. Martin's did not sound SO well as it http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 685 of 912 has sometimes though it elicited some compliments. The present mode of beating time conspicuously with the hand and arm in the old fashioned way, to which particular attention was given, preserved the singing from confusion. Speeches were made by Judge Devens, Charles William Eliot, Governor Talbot, Henry W. Bellows, Josiah Quincy, Gen. Bartlett, Prof. Thayer. The result of the election of Overseers was read, Auld Lang Syne was sung & the assembly dispersed. The hall being a failure in acoustics, the speeches were not heard except by a few in the vicinity of the speakers. June 25, 1874 Phi Beta Kappa Exercises. Meeting for business & election of officers held in Boylston Hall where also the procession was formed. Oration by Charles Carroll Everett, Poem by Christopher P. Cranch, dinner in Massachusetts Hall. Attendance small. This appears to be the first time known where a procession & the Commencement has not been formed at the Library wherever the Library was. Examination for admission to college begins to-day in Memorial Hall: A new plan adopted of examining scholars who wish to enter the Freshman Class next year in some of the studies. This year I succeed in excluding from the Library all processions and all meetings, the Corporation and Overseers meetings being held in Memorial Hall, and the Phi Beta at Boylston Hall. July 2, 1874 Eliot says no more L.L.D.'s to be given except to Jurists and Statesmen. July 9, 1874 I have had the letters; received during my administration with such of my predecessor's, (he never thinking of it) as I could get, bound for the College Library. They make twelve volumes, and came back from the binder to-day. After the death of Dr. Harris, I instructed his brother, James Winthrop Harris, to select from the papers left by the Librarian all that did not belong to the Library and were of a private or personal nature; such as remained, in arranging for binding my own Library correspondence, I concluded I would also bind. In regard to the letters received during my administration, there has been perplexity, as many of them contained information not only relating to the library but also respecting Harvard Graduates and personal affairs. The letters which related exclusively to the Library are in the bound manuscript volumes. The others I claim as private property, the Library having nothing to do with what related to the Annual Catalogues which, beginning in 1850, I edited twenty years, nor with the Triennial Catalogues, which I have edited since 1840, nor with my private correspondence, any more than though I had not been Librarian. A thorough examination into http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 John Langdon Sibley's Private Journal, 1846-1882 (HUG 1791.72.10) Page 686 of 912 the history of the Library would require a careful examination of my files as well as of that in the Library. In addition to the twelve volumes are several important parcels in the Library-drawers, and numerous letters and communications, in the bound Harvard Papers among the Corporation Archives, besides some in the Corporation Records themselves. Not seriously, till recently, entertaining the idea of binding the Library Letters the bulk is small compared with what it would have been if I had kept them all together instead of placing in the Library-books most of those which accompanied donations or were criticisms & comments on the books. July 10, 1874 Day for annual examination of the Library; but in consequence of disappointment in notifying the members no one appeared. July 21, 1874 Took hack to North Cambridge & at 7.40 A.M., the railroad cars through Fitchburg, Keene, stopping nearly two hours at Rutland, Vt., by way of Whitehall, N.Y. to Saratoga Springs where we got out at the Waverly House a little before 7 o'clock. July 22, 1874 Began the day by drinking six glasses of Empire Spring Water. July 23, 1874 Called on Edward Doubleday Harris, A.T. Stewart's architect for his real estate in Saratoga. Stewart is considered by some persons to be worth a hundred million dollars, having a wife and no children. Harris's family, including his mother, widow of the late librarian of Harvard University, temporarily there, reside at Saratoga Springs. The college regatta, of which the newspapers contained full accounts, is over, & the horse races about to begin. Met but few acquaintances, but among whom was Ex-Governor Fletcher of Vermont, 75 years old, made some acquaintances, among whom were the Hanscomb family from Brooklyn, NY. Also saw several of the Simes family from New York City with whom I boarded with more than forty years ago in Portsmouth, N.H. July 25, 1874 With Mrs. S. called on the Harrises. The follies and fashions & the sectarianism and religious bigotry at Saratoga do not essentially decrease & in most respects increase. July 28, 1874 Quite a sharp controversy with some persons who are trying to dissuade the Hanscombs http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/Sibley.htm 8/21/2007 College IN CIVITATE Omnibus ad yours hae Literac prevencrint Salutem in Donting sempiternam NOS PRIESES at SOCII COLLEGH HARVAARDIANT communities dienounds in reverendes Uneversitates Inspecteratur is Comities Sucknam Dorr clummer ad gradum Artihus admissmas vigue declinical conceptions ensry nu Jura nd hum henricon spretantow Junique the literal here Universitate ugelli munitis the wine Saldis frantmite MDCCCLXXIV Americanae XCVH Strategy ct de expenses Insection audistat subscript THE America Pradidas Trainers. The the 1875 THE HARVARD BOOK. A, SERIES OF HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES. BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Illustrated with Views and Portraits. COLLECTED AND PUBLISHED BY F. O. VAILLE AND H. A. CLARK, CLASS OF 1874. VOL. I. CAMBRIDGE: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1875. TO THE CLASS OF 1874, FOR WHOSE MEMBERS THESE SKETCHES WERE AT FIRST INTENDED, This Work IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. PREFACE. IN the middle of the academic year 1873-74, when the subject of class photographs was being discussed by that class which was to graduate at the following Commencement, this work was begun. It originated by considering the possibility of securing, in some more durable and attractive manner than hitherto, those pictures of the familiar scenes and faces of College days which every student at the end of his four-years' life at Harvard desires to carry away with him. It was thought this object might be best attained if there were added to the usual pictures composing a class album descriptive sketches of the College grounds, buildings, and those institutions which enter so largely into the social life of the undergraduate. This plan was attempted, and the book, started essentially for the Class of 1874, was intended to be chiefly limited in circulation to the members of that class. It was found, however, that the generous interest manifested by them in the work at its inception was shared to a great degree by the other undergraduate classes as well as by many of the Alumni. The result was, that the sketches began to increase both in length and number, and the scope of the work to be more comprehensive. These volumes must not, therefore, be regarded as completed in accordance with the plan proposed at first, but they should rather be con- sidered as the outgrowth of an originally designed class-book. This fact must answer the question why some few more or less remote subjects are included in a work which mainly relates to the University, - they are such as usually find illustration in the student's portfolio, and are always remembered with interest as a part of the pleasant associations of Cambridge. That the work is free from errors, is not professed that some statements may even be repeated, is not denied ; indeed, it would hardly seem to be possible viii PREFACE. otherwise, for the different articles, written by various authors, give the separate histories of subjects in many instances closely related to one another. The fre- quent absence of records often made recourse to memory necessary, in order to substantiate many facts relative to some of the societies and other institutions of the College, to those customs which flourished for a short time only, and to those tales and legends which, handed from one class to another, become tra- ditional in College circles, and form so large and so pleasant a portion of the fireside conversation of students. It may be that errors of fact have escaped detection, but great care has been taken to verify every statement. There may be many things contained within these pages which may not be appreciated or even understood by the general public, yet they may, nevertheless, be most acceptable to and welcomed by that indulgent public for whom they are principally intended, - the Alumni. It is earnestly hoped that the work may embrace that which will bring to the older and the younger graduate agreeable reminiscences of their College days ; that which may afford to those who have not been enrolled as students, or who may contemplate becoming so, a glimpse of the inner and more secluded student-life at Cambridge that which may give to any person seeking the information a correct account of the foundation of the College, its growth and expansion into a University, - in brief, a truthful repre- sentation of Harvard's past and present. To thank those who have shown a generous sympathy, kindly aid, and ready advice, at all times and in many ways, would be thanking all from whom sym- pathy was claimed, aid needed, or advice asked: they are so numerous, that it is wellnigh impossible to mention each; but to every one the reader will be per- sonally indebted, if he finds that the attempt to make these pages accurate, entertaining, and instructive has been successful. CAMBRIDGE, May, 1875. CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST. HISTORICAL SKETCH By SAMUEL ELIOT. CHAPTER I.-PREVIOUS HISTORIES OF HARVARD COLLEGE. - THE GENERAL COURT, 1636, VOTE "TO GIVE £400 TOWARDS A SCHOOLE OR COLLEDGE."-THE COLLEGE ORIGI- NALLY A STATE INSTITUTION. EARLIER PROVISIONS FOR A SIMILAR INSTITUTION IN VIR- GINIA. VOTE OF THE GENERAL COURT IN 1637.-LOCATING THE COLLEGE AT NEW- TOWN. - NATHANIEL EATON. - THE GENERAL COURT, 1639, VOTE TO NAME THE COLLEGE "HARVARD COLLEGE." JOHN HARVARD. - HIS BEQUEST. - THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS IN 1643. - PRESIDENT DUNSTER. - REGULATIONS. - EARLY CUSTOMS. - NEED OF FUNDS. CHARLES CHAUNCY. - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COLLEGE. - THE INDIAN COLLEGE. INDIAN STUDENTS. - REFORMS. - LEONARD HOAR, THE FIRST ALUMNUS CALLED TO THE PRESIDENCY, 1672 23 CHAPTER II. - INCREASE MATHER THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN BIRTH. HIS ABSENCE FROM CAMBRIDGE. - His IMPLICATION IN THE PERSECUTION OF WITCHES AT SALEM. ROBERT CALEF. - HIS BOOK BURNED IN THE COLLEGE YARD BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT - TUTORS BRATTLE AND LEVERETT. - LEVERETT ELECTED PRESIDENT, 1707. - AN ACCOUNT OF HIS INAUGURATION. - GROWTH OF THE COLLEGE.-THE COL- LEGE FACULTY ORGANIZED, 1725. - PROCEEDINGS OF COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE OVERSEERS. COMMENCEMENTS. - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SUSPENDED BY THE CORPORA- TION, 1755. BURNING OF HARVARD HALL, 1764. - RESOLVE OF THE GENERAL COURT TO REBUILD IT. - PRIZES FOR COMPOSITIONS IN HONOR OF GEORGE III. - VOTE OF THE SENIOR CLASS TO WEAR HOME-MADE SUITS AT COMMENCEMENTS. REBELLION OF THE STUDENTS.- - THE MARTI-MERCURIAN BAND. - THE GENERAL COURT OCCUPY THE COL- LEGE CHAPEL. JAMES OTIS. - SPIRITS OF THE STUDENTS AT THE PROSPECT OF WAR.- PRESIDENT LANGDON'S PRAYER BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS. - THE STUDENTS ASSEMBLE AT CONCORD INSTEAD OF CAMBRIDGE 35 CHAPTER III. -EXTRACT FROM THE ADDRESS OF HARRISON GRAY OTIS TO HIS CLASS. PROFESSORSHIPS FOUNDED--GROWTH OF THE COLLEGE. - STANDARD OF AD- MISSION RAISED. - ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS CAUSE DISCONTENT AMONG THE STUDENTS. CLASS DAY.-COLLEGE SOCIETIES. - ADDRESS OF THE STUDENTS IN 1798 TO THE PRESI- DENT OF THE UNITED STATES. - SOCIAL RELATIONS OF THE STUDENTS.- THE ENGINE SOCIETY. - THE HARVARD WASHINGTON CORPS.-THE MED. Fac.-The NAVY CLUB. COLLEGE PERIODICALS.-EXPANSION OF THE COLLEGE DURING PRESIDENT KIRKLAND'S ADMINISTRATION - THE SECOND CENTENNIAL CELEBRATED, SEPTEMBER 8, 1836. - THE ELECTIVE SYSTEM ESTABLISHED DURING PRESIDENT QUINCY'S ADMINISTRATION. - THE OBSERVATORY.-THE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL.-EXTRACT FROM THE POEM DELIVERED AT THE COMMEMORATION OF JULY 21, 1865 44 X CONTENTS. MASSACHUSETTS HALL By CHARLES ELIOT NORTON. THE HALL BUILT BY THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS. - VARIOUS GRANTS TO THE COLLEGE. - FORMER USES OF THE HALL. - PRESENT USES. - DANGER FROM THE FIRE WHICH CONSUMED HARVARD HALL. - OCCUPANCY BY REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS. - ESTI- MATE OF DAMAGES. - ASSOCIATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE BUILDING. - REPAIRS IN DR. KIRKLAND'S TIME. - A PORTION OF THE LOWER FLOOR FORMERLY DEVOTED TO SOCIETY USES. - ALTERATIONS IN 1870 53 HOLDEN CHAPEL By ANDREW PRESTON PEABODY. VISIT OF BENJAMIN COLMAN TO ENGLAND IN 1695. - GIFT OF MADAM HOLDEN AND HER DAUGHTERS TO THE COLLEGE. - ERECTION OF HOLDEN CHAPEL, 1744. - CONJEC- TURED OCCUPANTS IN EARLY TIMES. - SCENES AT PRAYERS.- - USES TO WHICH THE CHAPEL HAS BEEN PUT DURING THE PAST FIFTY YEARS 58 HOLLIS HALL By JOHN HOLMES. THOMAS HOLLIS. - HIS BENEFACTIONS TO HARVARD COLLEGE. - LIBERALITY OF THE HOLLIS FAMILY. - CHARACTER OF THE THIRD THOMAS HOLLIS. - THOMAS BRAND HOL- LIS, THE SEVENTH AND LAST BENEFACTOR BEARING THE NAME OF HOLLIS. - THE NUM- BER OF STUDENTS REDUCED BY THE "OLD FRENCH WAR," 1756-63.-THE CORPORATION URGE THE NEED OF A NEW BUILDING, 1761. - THE GENERAL COURT VOTE £ 2,000 FOR ANOTHER HALL. - A FURTHER SUM OF £500 VOTED. - SITE SELECTED. THE BUILDING COMPLETED, DECEMBER, 1763.-JANUARY 13, 1764, THE BUILDING NAMED "HOLLIS HALL." - RENT FROM THE CELLARS AND ROOMS APPLIED TO DIFFERENT Uses.-DESCRIPTION OF HOLLIS HALL. - USED FOR BARRACKS. - ACCOUNT OF DAMAGES DONE TO HOLLIS HALL DURING ITS MILITARY OCCUPATION. - ROOM No. 8. - REBELLION TREE. CLASS-DAY TREE. - THE MARTI-MERCURIAN BAND. - HARVARD WASHINGTON CORPS.-THE ENGINE COMPANY. - THE MEDICAL FACULTY. - DISTINGUISHED OCCUPANTS OF ROOMS IN HOLLIS HALL. - THE COLLEGE WOOD-YARD. - THE COLLEGE SLOOP, THE "HARVARD" 61 HARVARD HALL By JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. THE FIRST HARVARD HALL THE CENTRE OF COLLEGE LIFE. - USES OF THE BUILDING. - ANECDOTE OF DR. FREEMAN.- - Two SCENES TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT PERIODS OF ITS HISTORY. - FIRST HARVARD HALL BURNED. - LOSSES. - THE PRESENT HARVARD HALL BUILT BY THE STATE. - COST. - DISTRIBUTION OF THE ROOMS.-COLLEGE CLOCK. - MR. McKEAN'S LEAP FROM HARVARD TO HOLLIS HALL-LETTER FROM HONORABLE HORACE BINNEY.-DAMAGES - TO THE HALL BY REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS. - PRESENT ASPECT 72 STOUGHTON HALL By SAMUEL LONGFELLOW. WILLIAM STOUGHTON. - THE FIRST STOUGHTON HALL. - TABLETS ON ITS FRONT. - STOUGHTON'S WILL - PRINTING-OFFICE. - FIRST STOUGHTON TAKEN DOWN 1780. - THE GENERAL COURT AUTHORIZE A LOTTERY IN 1794 TO RAISE MONEY FOR A NEW BUILD- ING. - SECOND STOUGHTON HALL. - ROOMS 3, 17, AND 25. - STOUGHTON FIRST CALLED NEW HALL. - DISTINGUISHED OCCUPANTS OF ROOMS IN STOUGHTON 79 HOLWORTHY HALL. By HENRY WARREN TORREY. BEQUEST OF MATTHEW HOLWORTHY. - A LOTTERY AUTHORIZED. - OPENING OF THE BUILDING. - EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT KIRKLAND'S ADDRESS. - DESCRIPTION OF THE HALL 82 CONTENTS. xi UNIVERSITY HALL By HENRY LEE. PREFACE. - INITIATORY MEASURES TOWARD ERECTING UNIVERSITY HALL. - A GRANT FROM THE STATE. - LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE.-DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING.- CRITICISMS. - THE CHAPEL ENTERTAINMENTS GIVEN TO THE STUDENTS BY PROFES- SORS. - A CONCERT BY THE STUDENTS. - DAILY LIFE AT UNIVERSITY HALL.-THE the ORGAN. - THE HARVARD UNION. - THE EUPHRADIAN SOCIETY - THE MOCK TRIAL.- EXHIBITION DAY. - CLASS DAY. - COMMENCEMENT.-RECEPTION OF DISTINGUISHED VIS- ITORS.-FORMER PROFESSORS.-MELANCHOLY CHANGES. - CONCLUSION 84 OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT, DEAN, AND SECRETARY. By WILLIAM REED, JR. FACULTY MEETINGS FORMERLY HELD IN THE OLD PRESIDENT'S HOUSE. - ROOMS IN UNIVERSITY HALL TAKEN FOR THE PRESIDENT AND REGENT. - CHANGE IN THEM. - THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE. - PICTURES. - OFFICE FURNITURE 109 GORE HALL AND THE COLLEGE LIBRARY. By JOHN LANGDON SIBLEY. BEQUEST OF JOHN HARVARD.- - GIFTS TILL THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. - SOLOMON STODDARD CHOSEN LIBRARY KEEPER. - REGULATIONS.- STOOLS AND CHAIRS FOR THE LIBRARY.-BENEFACTIONS OF THOMAS HOLLIS AND FAMILY.-CITATIONS FROM LETTERS OF THOMAS HOLLIS. - FIRST LIBRARY CATALOGUE.-DONATIONS. - DESCRIP- TION AND USES MADE OF HARVARD HALL, IN WHICH THE BOOKS WERE KEPT. - OCCU- PIED BY THE GENERAL COURT - BURNT. - REBUILT BY THE PROVINCE. - AMOUNTS PAID TO OCCUPANTS OF ROOMS FOR LOSSES BY THE FIRE.-DONORS AND DONATIONS.- THE BOOKS SENT INTO THE COUNTRY TOWNS WHILE THE BRITISH OCCUPY BOSTON. BEQUESTS OF SAMUEL SHAPLEIGH, THOMAS BRAND HOLLIS, AND THOMAS PALMER. - GIFTS OF ISRAEL THORNDIKE, SAMUEL ATKINS ELIOT, AND OTHERS. - GORE HALL ERECTED WITH CHRISTOPHER GORE'S BEQUEST.-CORNER-STONE LAID; THE INSCRIPTION. ACCOUNT OF THE BUILDING. - BOOKS MOVED INTO IT. - TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS SUBSCRIBED FOR BOOKS. - GIFT OF WILLIAM GRAY. - GIFTS AND BEQUESTS BY JAMES BROWN, JOHN FARRAR, GEORGE HAYWARD, CLARKE GAYTON PICKMAN, STEPHEN SALIS- BURY, CHARLES SUMNER, CHARLES MINOT, HENRY WARE WALES, FREDERICK ATHEARN LANE, AND OTHERS.-NUMBER OF VOLUMES.-NEED OF A NEW BUILDING FOR A LIBRARY II2 APPLETON CHAPEL By EDWARD JAMES YOUNG. THE NEED OF ITS ERECTION. - THE DONOR. - THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE AND ITS EARLY HISTORY. - ITS RENOVATION AND PRESENT CONDITION - THE ASSOCIATIONS CON- NECTED WITH IT 122 BOYLSTON HALL By JOSIAH PARSONS COOKE, JR. GIFT AND BEQUEST OF WARD NICHOLAS BOYLSTON. - TERMS OF THE BEQUEST. - Ex- TRACT FROM PRESIDENT WALKER'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1855-56. - DESCRIPTION OF THE HALL. - APPARATUS OF LABORATORIES AND CABINETS 125 PEABODY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY By JEFFRIES WYMAN. THE FOUNDATION OF THE MUSEUM BY A GIFT OF THE LATE GEORGE PEABODY. - THE CONDITIONS OF THE GIFT. - THE PROFESSORSHIP PROVIDED FOR BY THE GIFT STILL UN- FILLED.-THE GROUPS INTO WHICH THE PORTION OF THE COLLECTION ARRANGED FOR EXHIBITION HAS BEEN DIVIDED I27 xii CONTENTS. GRAYS HALL By WILLIAM HENRY PETTEE. LOCATION. - DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING.-THE TABLETS. - REASONS FOR ERECT- ING THE BUILDING. - THE NAME I29 THAYER HALL By WILLIAM HENRY PETTEE. ERECTED IN 1869-70. - LOCATION. - DESCRIPTION OF THE HALL.- MR. NATHANIEL THAYER, OF BOSTON, THE DONOR OF THE BUILDING.-INSCRIPTION ON THE TABLET. - NATHANIEL THAYER, D. D. - MR. JOHN ELIOT THAYER I3I MATTHEWS HALL By WILLIAM HENRY PETTEE. GIFT OF NATHAN MATTHEWS. - FIRST OCCUPIED, 1872-3 - DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING.-SITI - CONDITIONS OF MR. MATTHEWS'S GIFT.-THE INDIAN COLLEGE 133 WELD HALL. STEPHEN MINOT WELD.-HIS INTEREST IN HARVARD COLLEGE.-WELD HALL ERECT- ED TO HIS MEMORY BY HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM F. WELD.-DESCRIPTION OF THE HALL. - INSCRIPTIONS ON THE TABLETS I35 THE OLD PRESIDENT'S HOUSE By CHARLES DEANE. THE HOUSE BUILT IN 1726. - INTERESTING FACTS CONNECTED WITH ITS EARLY HIS- TORY.-LIST OF THE PRESIDENTS WHO HAVE RESIDED IN THE HOUSE.-EVIDENCE - SHOW- ING THAT WASHINGTON MADE HIS HEADQUARTERS THERE FOR A SHORT TIME. - THE CHANGES MADE IN THE HOUSE SINCE ITS ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION. - THE USES TO WHICH THE HOUSE HAS BEEN PUT I37 THE DANA HOUSE By JOSEPH LOVERING. ERECTED IN 1823. - ALTERATIONS. - ESTATE PURCHASED BY THE COLLEGE. - EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY. - DIRECTORS. - MERIDIAN LINE LO- CATED. - APPARATUS REMOVED TO THE NEW OBSERVATORY. - OCCUPANTS SINCE 1844 143 THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE By THOMAS HILL. GIFT OF HON. PETER C. BROOKS, IN 1846. - ACCUMULATION OF THE FUND.-THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE ERECTED IN 1861. - FIRST OCCUPIED BY PRESIDENT FELTON. PRESIDENT ELIOT GIVES UP THE HOUSE FOR USE AS A HOSPITAL.-LOCATION.-MAG+ NETIC OBSERVATORY.-ARRANGEMENT OF ROOMS. - SURROUNDINGS 145 BIOGRAPHIES. JOSIAH QUINCY By EDMUND QUINCY I47 EDWARD EVERETT By EDWARD EVERETT HALE 151 JARED SPARKS By FRANCIS BOWEN I57 JAMES WALKER By JOSEPH LOVERING I59 CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON By WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN 162 THOMAS HILL 164 CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT 166 CONTENTS. xiii JOHN LANGDON SIBLEY 167 ANDREW PRESTON PEABODY 170 BENJAMIN PEIRCE 172 FRANCIS BOWEN 174 JOSEPH LOVERING 176 EVANGELINUS APOSTOLIDES SOPHOCLES 178 HENRY WARREN TORREY I79 JEFFRIES WYMAN 180 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 182 FRANCIS JAMES CHILD 183 GEORGE MARTIN LANE 184 JOSIAH PARSONS COOKE, JR. 185 CHARLES FRANKLIN DUNBAR 187 WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN 188 FERDINAND BôCHER I90 EPHRAIM WHITMAN GURNEY 191 JAMES MILLS PEIRCE I92 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 193 THE DIVINITY SCHOOL By OLIVER STEARNS. EARLY MODE OF THEOLOGICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE COLLEGE.- - ORIGIN OF THE SCHOOL. FIRST FOUNDATIONS FOR PROFESSORSHIPS - THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.-PAST PROFESSORS.-DIVINITY HALL ERECTED 1825-6. - CEREMONIES ACCOMPANYING THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE AND DEDICATION OF THEBUILDING.-DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING.-THE ASSOCIATION OF ALUMNI FORMED.-THE - QUESTION OF THE TRANSFER OF THE TRUST OF THE SCHOOL FROM THE CORPORATION TO THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION. - THE LIBRARY. - THE PRESENT STAFF OF PROFESSORS. - NEW FOUNDATIONS. - OCCA- SIONAL LECTURES. - BENEFICIARY FUNDS. - DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF DIVINITY.- AIMS OF GOVERNORS AND PROFESSORS I97 BIOGRAPHIES. FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE 212 OLIVER STEARNS 213 EZRA ABBOT 215 EDWARD JAMES YOUNG 217 CHARLES CARROLL EVERETT 219 HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AND DANE HALL. By EMORY WASHBURN. LEGACY OF ISAAC ROYALL IN I779. - - ERECTION OF DANE HALL IN 1832. - FOUNDA- TION OF PROFESSORSHIPS, - JOHN H. ASHMUN'S LIFE AND CHARACTER. - PROFESSORSHIP CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. THE COLLEGE YARD By GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS. THE TERM "COLLEGE YARD." - SIZE AND BOUNDARY OF THE YARD. - THE NUMBER OF BUILDINGS IN AND OUT OF THE YARD. - GRANT OF THE TOWN OF NEWTOWN, 1638. THE BREW-HOUSE. - THE BETTS, SWEETMAN, MEETING-HOUSE, GOFFE, EATON, AND THE WIGGLESWORTH LOTS. - THE "FELLOWS ORCHARD." - "Ox PASTURE." - PARSONAGE LOT.-LAND BORDERING ON QUINCY STREET PURCHASED, 1835. - PURCHASE OF THE Ap- PLETON LOT. - ELIOT'S PLAN OF THE COLLEGE YARD. - THE PATHS. - EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS OF EDWARD EVERETT. - THE TREES PLANTED BY PRESIDENT QUINCY. - THE FENCE.-THE GENERAL COURT VOTE IN 1632 TO FORTIFY NEWTOWN, AND IN 1634 TO ESTABLISH AN ARSENAL THERE. - DESCRIPTION OF THE FORTIFICATIONS. - WATCH HILL. - DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST HALL. - THE "FAIRE GRAMMAR SCHOOLE." - THE "DAME'S SCHOOL." - INDIAN COLLEGE 15 WIGGLESWORTH HOUSE By LUCIUS ROBINSON PAIGE. SITE OF THE HOUSE. - ASSIGNMENT OF THE LOT TO REV. THOMAS HOOKER. - RE- MOVAL OF MR. HOOKER TO HARTFORD, 1636. - REV. THOMAS SHEPARD'S POSSESSION OF THE HOMESTEAD. - GIFT MADE BY THE TOWN TO HIM. - HIS DEATH. - REV. JONATHAN MITCHEL. - LEVERETT PURCHASES THE ESTATE. - THE WIGGLESWORTHS. - SALE OF THE ESTATE TO THE COLLEGE 22 THE OLD PARSONAGE By ALEXANDER McKENZIE. JONATHAN MITCHEL. - EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE CHURCH. - EXTRACT FROM THE TOWN RECORDS UNDER DATE OF JULY 5, 1669. - RESOLUTION PASSED, SEP- TEMBER 9, 1669, TO SELL THE CHURCH'S FARM. - BUILDING COMMITTEE CHOSEN. - SITE OF THE HOUSE. - COST OF CONSTRUCTING IT. - MEASURES TO BUILD A NEW PARSONAGE IN 1718. - WILLIAM STOUGHTON INVITED TO THE PASTORATE.- URIAN OAKES ORDAINED PASTOR, NOVEMBER 8, 1671.-OCCUPANTS OF THE HOUSE SUCCEEDING HIM. - TAKEN DOWN IN 1843 26 HARVARD SQUARE By JOHN HOLMES. THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ENGRAVING.- SCENES AT COMMENCEMENTS. - THE OLD COLLEGE HOUSE. - MARKET HOUSE. - CAMBRIDGE TAVERN. - THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE. -ITS INTERIOR AT COMMENCEMENTS.- THE ENGINE-HOUSE.-THE PILE-DRIVER HAM- MER. -SKETCHES OF COMMENCEMENT TIME. OF ATTENDANTS.- vi CONTENTS. -PLACES OF RESORT FOR VISITORS - MODE AND TIMES OF ARRIVAL. - THE NIGHT PRE- VIOUS TO COMMENCEMENT DAY. - PILLAGING BY VAGABONDS. - THE "SCHOLARS." DRESSING FOR THE DAY. - HOLIDAY TROUBLES.-FRESH COMERS.- THE ROADS FOR- MERLY LEADING TO THE COLLEGE. - THE PROGRAMME OF THE DAY. - ARRIVAL OF THE GOVERNOR.- PROCESSION.- THE ORDER ADOPTED.-EXERCISES IN THE CHURCH.- THE FASHIONS. THE VARIOUS PARTS 29 HOLYOKE HOUSE By WILLIAM HENRY PETTEE. LOCATION. - CoST.-DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. - FIRE-ESCAPES 48 PART I. By WALDO HIGGINSON. MEMORIAL HALL { PART II. By WILLIAM ROBERT WARE. POEM. By CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH. PART I.-THE MEETING OF HARVARD GRADUATES IN MAY, 1865. - DISCUSSION OF THE RESOLUTIONS REPORTED BY THE MEMORIAL COMMITTEE.-NAMES OF THE Com- MITTEE. - THE ALUMNI VOTE TO ERECT A MEMORIALL HALL AT A MEETING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1865. - A COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND A BUILDING COMMITTEE APPOINTED.-Ex- TRACTS FROM A REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, JULY 14, r866. THE "DELTA" SELECTED AS THE SITE OF THE PROPOSED HALL.-THE PURCHASE OF "JARVIS FIELD" AS A PLAY-GROUND IN LIEU OF THE "DELTA." - THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE -SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE HALL. - A COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PREPARE AND PRINT A RECORD OF THE SERVICES OF HARVARD STUDENTS AND GRADUATES WHO WERE ENGAGED IN THE LATE WAR 49 PART II. -DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING.-THE INTERIOR.-THE MEMORIAL HALL PROPER. - THE DINING-HALL. THE THEATRE.- THE EXTERIOR.-THE TOWER.- THE MAIN ENTRANCES TO THE BUILDING. - DEDICATORY INSCRIPTIONS THE MARBLE TAB- LETS. - A LIST OF THE NAMES OF GRADUATES OR STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY WHO FELL IN DEFENCE OF THE UNION.-LATIN INSCRIPTIONS ON THE WALLS OF THE MEMO- RIAL VESTIBULE. - THE WINDOWS. - THE WEST-END WINDOW - INSCRIPTION OVER IT 60 POEM 73 COMMONS By BENJAMIN HOMER HALL. CHAPTER I. - NATHANIEL EATON. - GRANT OF LAND TO HIM BY THE GENERAL COURT. - HIS ILL-TREATMENT OF THE STUDENTS.-WINTHROP's ACCOUNT OF EATON'S MISMANAGEMENT. - TRIAL BY COURT.-PROCEEDINGS OF THE Church.-MRS. EATON'S CONFESSION. - THE SENTENCE. - THE COLLEGE GOVERNMENT DINE AT COMMONS. - COMMONS SUPPLIED BY THE COLLEGE STEWARD. - LIST OF ARTICLES RECEIVED IN BAR- TER FOR INSTRUCTION. - EXTRACT FROM LUCIUS R. PAIGE. GIFTS SOLICITED FOR THE COLLEGE. - RULE REGULATING THE TIME TO BE SPENT AT MEALS. -PRESIDENT DUN- STER'S ORDERS. - WANTS OF THE COLLEGE IN 1665.- THE COLLEGE STEWARD'S ACCOUNT- Books.-The TERMS "COMMONS" AND "SIZINGS."- THE FIRST BUTLER. - STUDENTS CREDITED WITH WORK.-CUSTOM OBSERVED AT MEALS IN 1674.-GIFT OF SAMUEL WARD, 1681 THE PRESENCE OF THE TUTORS "IN THE HALL AT MEAL TIMES" REQUIRED.- ORDER PASSED IN 1724.-LAWS ADOPTED IN 1734 - DUTIES OF THE STEWARD, BUTLER, AND COOK.-EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT QUINCY ON COMMONS.-DISTURBANCES IN 1766 AND 1768.-VARIOUS EXTRACTS RELATING TO COMMONS. - DIFFICULTIES OF PROCURING DINNER AT THE HATCH. - VOTE OF 1772. - EFFECT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ON COMMONS. - VOTE OF 1783 75 Incomplete STORES 1770 THE INSTITUTE OF 1770. THE SPEAKING CLUB. - ITS OBJECTS. - EARLY MEMBERS. - THE MERCURIAN CLUB. - PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION. THE SOCIAL FRATERNITY. - HERMETICK SOCIETY. - THE INSTI- TUTE OF 1770. - THE I. O. H. - SELECTION OF MEMBERS. - - THE LIBRARY. ROOMS. THE times were needing strong words from young Americans when Samuel Phillips, John Warren, and the rest of the Class of 1771 began their Senior year; while the College authorities, as these students remarked, in language not wholly strange to later generations, showed "a cold indifference to the practice of Ora- tory." What was called the 'Speaking Club" was therefore organized, with Phillips, later Lieutenant-Governor of the State, as President, and with a Secre- tary who kept remarkably full and accurate records, happily still preserved, of these first meetings. It was voted "that there be a stage to perform on, four feet Diameter, not more than two Feet high, with the front Corners clipt"; and upon the stage thus made and "clipt" Orations and Essays on the profoundest themes were "performed" with great regularity. Warren spoke on "The Beauty of the Heavenly Bodies"; Avery, on "The Odiousness of Envy": and Thomas, on "The Pernicious Habit of drinking Tea": each of which performances the ecord describes as " ejus compositionem." It was early voted also "that no member shall speak in Lath without special leave from the President"; and "that the Secretary provide candles." Founded in this very earnest and business-like way, the Society throve and en- dured, and numbered among its members in these early days such men as Chris- topher Gore, Rufus King, James Freeman, Henry Ware, and John Quincy Adams. Other societies, with a kindred purpose, appeared from time to time by its side, and each in its turn was merged in the older organization. In 1773 it is written that, Having had intelligence that there is an honourable Club in College, known by the name of the Mercurian Club, founded in 1771 by Fisher Ames" and others, and "that these worthy Founders went upon the same noble principle in founding their Club which is set forth in our Preamble," therefore the two clubs were united with great formality under the old name of The Speaking Club. 342 THE INSTITUTE OF 1770. During the years 1778- the records are wanting, but there is a that the Society was maintained in secret by the Senior classes. Thi this early history there was much taking of oaths not to disclose the the Society, "or even that there is such an one subsisting." This secr to have been the fact that the Society was organized for the practice of and in 1801 it seems to have occurred to the members that the name ing Club" might suggest the mysterious purpose of their meetings actuated," as they write, "by the benevolent purpose to transmit this secret unimpaired as a blessing to posterity," they changed the dangerou to that of Patriotic Association." It subsequently assumed the name Social Fraternity of 1770." In 1825 two more of its rivals, the Herm ciety" and the "ArpuBoroyounevor," combined with the "Social Fraternity enlarged Society took the name of 'The Institute of 1770." Still later the I. O. H., another club of the same nature, followed the lead of it and surrendered to the Institute, leaving it alone in its field until since. In 1837 the seal was designed by Rev. Samuel Longfellow, the Sophomore year. The Institute was originally a Senior society. In 1781, "the Senior being obliged to pay a more strict attention to their Collegiate Exercise Duties of this Club would permit," resigned it to the Junior class. Late processes of degeneration, Sophomores, and even promising Freshmen, wen Tradition has at last hallowed the maintenance of the Society by Sopt choosing at the end of their year ten Freshmen who in turn elect. their dH As early as 1782 a Valedictory Oration was made a regular annual and it is still continued, with the addition of a Poem. The library ciety has always been much used, has grown to be of very consider and receives additions from the fund of each class at the end of active membership. It was kept at No. 2 Holworthy Hall, which room pied free of rent by the Librarian, who was elected at the end of his year, and held the office during his Junior year. The Society has meetings, in the rooms of its members, in Nos. 17 and 19 Massachi and in the lower and upper stories of the same building, until in the present rooms in Holyoke House, to which the library has been were obtained and fitted up by the Class of 1875. The Institute among the older College societies with a marked and creditable distr is the only one whose members, from a distant beginning, have de selves to the definite purpose of declamation, composition, and have not lost sight of or neglected this purpose, either from lac in it or from love of more social entertainment. The traditions of needs of the present, and the inspiration of new competitors, all this original purpose alike clear and profitable. THE BOTANIC GARDEN. FOUNDATION OF THE GARDEN. - WILLIAM DANDRIDGE PECK CHOSEN PROFESSOR. - GIFT OF MR. CRAIGIE. - LACK OF FUNDS. - MR. THOMAS NUTTALL'S RESIDENCE AT THE GARDEN. - DR. ASA GRAY APPOINTED TO THE FISHER PROFESSORSHIP IN 1842. - PRESENT CONSERVATORY BUILT IN 1857. - HERBARIUM BUILDING ERECTED IN 1864. - INCOME FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE GARDEN. - COMPLETION OF THE PRESENT ESTABLISHMENT IN 1871. THE Botanic Garden, along with the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History to which it was attached, was founded in the year 1805. It appears from the records of the Corporation that, on the first day of March of that year, "a plan for a professorship of Botany and Entomology in the University by a number of subscribers to a fund for that purpose, was communicated and read " the proposed statutes and regulations were discussed at subsequent meetings of the Corporation, and on the 28th of March these statutes were adopted and en- tered upon the records. William Dandridge Peck was chosen Professor on this foundation, and on the 14th of May was formally inducted into office, when he delivered an inaugural oration in English. Afterward," as the record states, " they sat down to a decent dinner in the Hall." Dr. Peck must have laid out the Botanic Garden that same year, or soon after. The next year he went to Europe, to visit the principal gardens, etc., return- ing, it is to be inferred, in 1808, for in that year a committee of the Corporation made some regulations for his lectures. The Conservatory built by Dr. Peck about this time - a "lean-to" structure with stone foundation and brick wall - served the whole purpose of the establishment until the year 1858, and its foun- dations and most of the wall form a part of the present structure. There appears to have been a house for the gardener on the premises. The Professor's house was finished in 1810. The land for the garden, about seven and a half acres, is said to have been given by Mr. Craigie. The funds for its formation and sup- port were raised by subscription, and by a grant from the State of certain wild lands in Maine, being a portion of the grant made to the Trustees of the Society for Promoting Agriculture. These Trustees were made the Visitors of the estab- 314 THE BOTANIC GARDEN. , lishment, and for many years they took the principal charge of it. What original funds amounted to cannot now be ascertained. That they were found to be insufficient appears from an application which the Visitors made the Corporation in 1810 for a loan of five thousand dollars on interest; from endeavors (apparently fruitless) to obtain further aid from the State; and from report made by them in the autumn of 1822, after the death of Professor Ped announcing that they could no longer pay the salary of a professor. During latter half of his incumbency, Professor Peck was unable to lecture or give struction, owing to a partial paralysis. The chair of the Massachusetts Profes ship, vacated by his death, was never filled again. The residence was ren and Mr. Thomas Nuttall, a distinguished English botanist, who had been several years in the country, was placed in charge of the Garden, and of such struction in Natural History as was then given. This continued until the win of 1833-34, when Mr. Nuttall suddenly resigned his curatorship, and made exploring tour across the continent to Oregon, California, and the Sand Islands. The Garden remained in the entire charge of William Carter gardener almost from the beginning. In 1835 - 36 his dwelling-house was built and enlarged. This worthy man brought with him from Yorkshire a dency to aspirate his vowels, and he accordingly alarmed the late Mr. Worce editor of the Dictionary, by informing him that he was going to make the hous into a hell. The L-shaped house still stands, not in its original position, on Linne Street, but on Raymond Street, to which it was removed when the former Fine was widened and made a thoroughfare. Mr. Carter resigned the place he long and worthily filled in 1847, and died six or seven years afterwards. After Mr. Nuttall's departure, some botanical instruction was annually by Dr. Harris, the University Librarian, or by Dr. A. A. Gould of Boston the year 1842 - 43, when Dr. Asa Gray was appointed Fisher Professor of ral History, upon an endowment made by a legacy of the late Dr. Fisher Beverly. In the year 1848, a study was added to the Professor's house, which conta his herbarium, and was used more or less for botanical instruction. In 1857 present Conservatory was built, at a cost of nearly four thousand dollars; hal which was defrayed by a gift from the trustees of the Dowse estate, the rema der by private donations, supplemented by a grant from the Corporation of University. In 1862, the invested funds of the Garden, having become reduced to belo twelve thousand dollars, were temporarily replenished by a subscription raised the late Dr. Hayward, a member of the Corporation, yielding fifteen hundred lars a year for three years. In 1864, the Herbarium building was erected, at a cost (including some THE BOTANIC GARDEN. 315 additions to the interior) of fifteen thousand dollars. This was the gift of Na- thaniel Thayer, since a member of the Corporation. The Herbarium and the Botanical Library of the Professor, which it was built to receive, were at that time presented by him to the University, and a fund of over ten thousand dollars, raised by subscription, was collected for the support of the establishment. In 1866 - 67, the Professor collected by subscription seventeen thousand dol- lars, the gentleman who built the Herbarium contributing five thousand dollars of it, to replenish the funds of the Garden. From that time to the present the income for the support of the Garden, from all sources, has amounted to about four thousand dollars, one third of which is the annual gift of an anonymous donor. Finally, in 1871, the present establishment was completed by the construction and fitting up of a lecture-room, laboratory, and an extension of the Conservatory, thus connecting the Herbarium on one side with the Conservatory on the other into a continuous range, and affording the means of giving the whole botanical instruction throughout the year at the Botanic Garden in connection with the materials and collections which illustrate it. This important addition was at an expense of about sixteen thousand dollars, which was defrayed by another anony- mous donor. The Botanic Garden was in charge of Professor Gray from 1842 - 1873, since which time it has been under the superintendence of C. S. Sargent, A. M., Curator of the Arnold Arboretum. Page 1 of 1 Ronald Epp From: "Oxford University Archives" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:38 AM Subject: re: Alumnus Query Dear Dr Epp The Information Officer has forwarded your enquiry to the University Archives. Postgraduate studies in the modern sense did not really begin in Oxford until 1895, when the degrees of BLitt and BSc were established, although individuals did of course carry out research before then. I have looked in Joseph Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886', a printed register of all members of the University between those dates, but have found no reference to George Bucknam Dorr; this indicates that he did not matriculate here. If he was carrying out research in Oxford without matriculating (ie being formally admitted to the University), there would be no record of him in the University Archives. If he was admitted as an external reader in the Bodleian Library, the Library's own records may contain relevant information; enquiries about this should be made to Mr Steven Tomlinson at the Library (srt@bodley.ox.ac.uk). Yours sincerely Simon Bailey Keeper of the Archives Oxford University Archives, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG, UK tel: +44 (0) 1865 277145 fax: +44 (0) 1865 277182 1/2/2003 Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Steven Tomlinson" To: "Ronald Epp" Cc: Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:58 AM Subject: Library Records Dear Dr Epp The Bodleian's records of admissions of readers for the period 1875-85 are complete and I have looked through everything for these years. I am afraid that there is no record that a George Bucknam Dorr was admitted to the Library during this time. I am sorry not to have been able to give a positive reply. Yours sincerely Steven Tomlinson Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Bodleian Library Oxford OX1 3BG On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:57:00 -0500 Ronald Epp wrote: > Dear Mr. Tomlinson: > Archivist Simon Bailey referred me to you to address the following issue. > > In preparing an intellectual biography of Harvard alum (class of 1874) George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), founder of Acadia National Park, there are popularizations which claim that Mr. Dorr studied at Oxford in the 1875-1885 period. > Mr. Bailey cannot find evidence that he matriculated at Oxford but infers that he might have been engaged in research. If so, do the Bodelian Library records contain any indication of Mr. Dorr's application as an external reader during this decade? > I appreciate any assistance that you could provide. Thank you! > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > Director of the Harry & Gertrude Shapiro Library > Southern New Hampshire University > 2500 North River Road > Manchester, NH 03106-1045 > USA > 603-668-2211. ext. 2164 > 603-645-9685 (fax) 1/3/2003 9 Monday night, Doo. 19, 1938. (note to typist; insert year date in this and similar beginnings hereafter.) When Edward Dorr demo 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 prinoiples 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 woll, when the two pilgrims are oast into the dungoon 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 one It was all very real to me and became an allegory only much later on. There were some excellent steel engravings in the oopy that I had and in the old ones that oame down to me from a generation earlier and one picture that I reoall especially showed Christian and his comptions, 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 imagine I was nearer to the true spirit of my Pilgrim forbears in receiving it all as simple fact, true narrativo of a true experience, than anyone can be today, looking on it as an allegory. And 80 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. mt 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 genoration 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 o ome about that I can only look at it with wonder. Two lives as long as mine is n ow would span the change, with Equi its opening on the new universe of which we know rather what is not than we do what is. LONDON TIMES as revised from Dictaphone article, September 19, 1938. Always when we were abroad and wherever we might be, the London Times followed us, my father reading it with constant interest. It was altogether the best newspaper in the world at that time, broad in its outlook, judicial in its tone and all-inclusive, in the subjects it took up, whether of the sciences, politics or literature, and reporting and commenting upon interesting law cases. Generally my father allowed me, partly that we might discuss what we read together and partly because I still was limited in the use I could make of my eyes, to read it with him. To read it is this way was an education in itself and since he died I have continued reading daily the best newspapers I could get -- generally, in America, the New York Times and some Boston or Maine newspaper 8.8 well. DICT 1 Thursday evening DEC 5-1938 It was a pleasant part of England that my father's people came from, lying warm to the sun, good ground to cultivate or graze cattle and sheep upon, and warmed in the cold of winter by the Gulf Stream which bathed its shores and it was historic beyond any other region in the kingdom, for it was on its shore that the invaders landed who ruled successively the kingdom, the Romans, the Saxons and the Normans. And against which the effects of yet two more invasions failed in the time of the Armaea and the first Napoleon. The Downs as good grazing land devoid of Lf/enemy- concealing trees were the site of fortresses built of earthworks of unknown early date which are among the earliest and most interesting remains in England while Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, nearby, tells of the old Druid of whose religious faith so little has come down to us, being entrusted to the memory of men and perished with them. One of the strangest things in man is his love of ####/ rhythm which seems to have no useful purpose but to be inherent in man's nature, as it is in birds and probably, undevel ped, in all higher life. And so it was that the men of old, whether Celts or the early Greeks, the religious doctrine! they english held SO precious and important, allied to magic spells controlling the natural forces which, in analagy to themselves, they believed alive with personality and consciousness. Dorset and Dorchester, the Saxon settlement and the Roman Camp, was a region of special interest to us as the home whence in family tradition our first Dorr ancestor in America had come, though he actually ###1 sailed out from Devonshire as one of a group banded together to seek new opportunity across the sea. Suxxex, the land of the south Saxons, as Middlessex and Essex, the latter the land of the East Saxons, a land made famous by Thomas Hardy a generation later, was a land of intere t to us. These were lands of chalk down and gentle streams where much fierce fighting had been done, no doubt, in early days but quiet and peaceful now. How was it that the new doctrines of the Puritan period took such hold in so conservative a land? It was not economic; it seemed to have been purely doctrinal. ism. It was a revoke from the pride and luxury of eccleseastical It was a time when the presence of God among men seemed very immanent. He was every present with them and, being men of acute reasoning and ### deep 3. earnestness, they argued, wrote and preached, confident of their reasoning and curiously unquestioning of fundemental facts 0 upon which it was based. They came to America to be free but not to win freedom for others than themselves, who differed from them. So stumbling upon ancient rocks of controversy, old as the thought of man, they flipped into many groups of various doctrine when they had put OF A Sater Wednesday evening December 21, 1938. That summor in England in 1875 marks for me,as, I look back on it, the entrance on lines of thought and interest which have stayed with me always, shaping my future life. That is why I dwell upon it so fully. For they are as strong upon me today as they were then, the source of accomplishment and the source of failure. The search after the home a of my Puritan ancestors brought up to me the whole problem of what they believed and Port why, which led us from th at time on to much reading and much study. The quest after what wasbeautiful or interesting in the lands they came from, its life and scenery, its trees and pleasure gardens, left an impresa on me whose outooms has been Acadia Nat1 nal Park. This I shall leave behind, accompanied with the regret that it should be no more, as I would gladly ha ve made it if I could. But one has to feel one's way through life, not seeing clearly even in retrospect. When I returned to Rome that winter with my father and mother it was with a mind full of new impressions and questions that I wished to solve; and I took back with me from England books that fully occupied my time that winter Diotaphone 1 December 26, 1938. 7. Totake n Our summer in 1875 in England was a very happy one. We did what we set out to do, searching out -- my father and I -- the homes. of town and countryside whence his ancestors and mine had come; searching out the beautiful manor houses and gardens for which England was still famous in those days; visiting the rivers, lakes and regions famous in English prose and verse; and searching out the ruined abbeys of the land telling pleasantly of its former beauty, and visiting its great cathedrals of the Gothic period. From first to last, our summer had been full of interesting and beautiful sights and leaving us with memories we were never to lose of the most varied character and deepest human interest. It is rare that one can say as much of any period in / one's life, and it was only because of we were so much in sympathy and shared so largely in a common background of reading and, for desires and my father and mother, of/interests long postponed that it was possible. One must travel with others, and with others thoroughly sympathetic with ourselves to get the full value and enjoyment out of travel. One must share in order to appreciate, and the people one can share with happily are few. it 4 Tuesday evening. December 20, 1938 The we spent together in England in 1875, following what had gone before, oka written of SO fully because of what they led to in my later lifo which had bearing upon lines of work and study reaching out beyond the confines of myself. My father's generation was the first, I feel as I look back, fairly to get away from the narrowness and limitations of the Puritan do otrine which, intheir tuen, had been 80 great and bold a breaking away from the luxury and pride that had preceded them. Until Iwent abroad the year before, I had given but little thought to matters of the kind. I now began to read and study, searching for an answore to the questions that kept crowding upon me. This study has not ended yet a nd ne ver will; it 1108 beyond the bounds of human knowledge. Equally, delighting in in movement activity and I had given little thought to the deeper implications involved in what I saw. History, philosophy and religion; motives and the meaning of it all now opened new perspectives up before me, thinking for myself as I have always done, unhindered by others' attitudes whether of faith or skepticism. onrollrionbooks upon philosophy for which I had & strong natural bent and books on art, ant in every field save Which music, for/1 have no natural gift. Thursday evening Dec. 14. Cyl 1 The tracing out of these and others of my father's descent leading directly back to the very the C1875. heart of-kis Puritan development in but a few well remembered generations gave us a source of greatest interest not only that summer but afterwards, in England and at home. The whole Puritan movement sprend itself out before me as I studied its development and traced back its source in the pictures of the past it drew for me. In England the whole lay spread out before me so far as record is left to tell of it. The Druids and the Celts, the Romans with their unhappily transplanted gods and goddesses of the Mediterannean the its basin, XXXK growth$ of early Christianity with the fervent missionary zeal , the growing spelndor of the architecture which sprang from it in the middle ages , , the lots of the spiritual in the wealth and corruption that followed 1 the reaction to Puritanism which came efter it, noble and temperate in its origin with Wycliffe and Johann Huss and the narrow but sincere and hone t doctrine of the Puritan church, as ready SS the earliest Missionaries to suffer and parish for their sake, it all combined in my mind to form a great historic drama, telling of man's fundenmental ignorance of the world about him of his spiritual longings and indolity to hold fast to them. Dictaphone of Friday evening, December 9, 1938. To read 21 5 (1875) ture Dict-5 That summer in England with its leisurely quest after old family homes and records of the time and people, its visits to the sites and ruins of the great abbeys which in their prime had been so striking a feature of the land from Cumberland to the Severn and the Wye, and the beautiful gardens and ###1###/zanor houses which courtesy made open tc us was a period which I look back to now as one of the pleasantest of my life. Less old than the European basin and the Mediterrsnean basin in the times it recalled, it was replete with interest from the beginning on and the subject of a rich literature that broucht its period back to us in living figures from King Alfred on and the impressions that it left, of noble erclitecture, beautiful gardens and quiet flowing streams have been a fruitful memory and source of pleasure ever since, influencing my life. And it added greatly to my pleasure and profit in the literature I later read telling of the English people I had come from and the lands where they had lived. The place names, so largely transported to New England by the early settlers, were a constant source of interest to me as we travelled through the land, revealing in the Roman and Saxon times the forgotten presence of things not elsewhere told. (December (9) 21 5,1875 The Roman occupation was told of everywhere throughout the kingdom by the placing of the Roman campf, as I have else- where told, and it was interesting to see how well selected these had been, for nearly all of them apparently became the persistent site of cities, and are so today. They were mainly upon rivers, accessible to the low-draft ressels of their day, propelled by oars but by sails also if the winds were favorable. There were many things I would have liked to ask had the shade of a Roman senturian been present as it was to the children in Kipling's tale. But the discovery of a watting streetand its branches extending through every major portion of the kingdom was a great find, and so was its temple ruins at Bath, telling how here too as everywhere they went baths and springs were to the Romans a source of pleasure and a source of health -- one would like to know more about them. Once one begins to ask questions, there is no end. The Saxon period, again, registered itself well in names but in folk names especially, not towns and cities. Norfolk and Suffolk are such ol ay about their landing places where they entered at first to raid but soon to conquer and occupy. so, too, with the settlement, or csets: Dorset, Somerset and the like, or the settlement of the Saxons in Essex, Wessex, Sussex and the like -- all ground replete with history if one did but know it. And so are the laws and toms which they brought in. They, like the language y spoke, go back undoubtedly for thousands of years a time when the Aryan tongue was developing in as mon center. Dict first Saturday December 3. A Is Leaving York we passed on into the region known as the Dukeries for the many estates and 1875 ancient manor houses that lay therein, the home of wealthy noblemen, and very wealthy some of them were at that time when wealth was counted in broad acreage of cultible land and an the villages and towns that lay upon it, paying rent. Some of them also had great coal mines, unsuspected sources of great revenue until the industrial age began, where KORKEX anx flocks and herds had grazed, wheat grown as forests of trees had flourished yielding but moderate revenues in earlyer times. It was an age of great inequality, but SO providence brdained it it was felt and must be right. It was the England me Dave depicted in Jane Austen's novels which my mother delighted in and made me familiar with that summer as we travelled on in easy fashion, visiting gardens and galleries and reading much besides in the delightful Tauschnitz editions that were so inexpensive to buy, so lightly corried and of excellent print withal. And all the time my father and I had our own ancestors in mind, searthing out tleir homes and the homes from which our New England people had come, leaving so much that was dear to them behind for the sake of a religious principal which raised them, wrong as that principal was we feel today, so high above their hard lot and earthly fortune. Back of our New England ancestors with their tremendous earnesty we realized as we travelled through the English countryside that summer that other great development of the scirit that WES Christ which reared such noble temples to God's presence in the world as the great Cathedrals and the once great monestary whose ruins we were searching out and which had been so real also in its earlier day and worshipped in such beauty. These were two great phases of the human spirit, both crude yet both in their time intensely real. These were not two people's; they were both our ancestors and, whatever the material universe may be, were itx possible to search it out, both truly exhibiting in its own measure some phase of the human spirit which is one vi th the Divine. All in all, we had a wonderful summer, rich in interest and rich in the beauty which it showed us. And it was richer than I any year I had before in the thought it gave rise to and the intimate companionship we had together. It was a long possession which passed before us as we travelled on, of Romans told of by their camp name scattered through the land, generally disguised by the water that they bordered, precious to Italian Eyes or by a solidly constructed bit of Roman road or by the sunken pavement of a Roman villa or, as at Bath, the ruins of a temple to the Scotch fragmentary reminders of a lifelong past once vivid as our own; of Saxon invaders and their racial kindred of the north 11. 16 Embrdrid now 1938 (gan 20'39 Sunday, Dec. 18. Cyl 1 in other) Fresh beginning That summer I came to know my England, the England of my Puritan forefathers ,as thoroughly as one well could, who was born two centuries and more later, the land they cultivated and the ports they sailed from. And I was laying the foundation for a life-long interest in the political and religious movements of their time. All interested me as it did my father and I acquired a great interest, too, in the time of the ruined abbeys and the side of life they told of in contrast to what one read in history of wares andodrime. It is a great thing to explore a region thoroughly as we did that summer and were to do again less extensively in la ter years. That autumn my father returned to America for a few weeks while my mother and I went down to Devonshire, whose northern coast., with its high cliffs and moors, which we added to our , and the south coast at Exeter with it's old cathedral church and quaint old neighboring towns. Then we returned to London to wait for my father and then followed the traok of the Romans south,down to the Rhone Valley and over the high, Corniohe road by Driving, with its pale blue sea seenthrough pale green olive trees of high-terraced gardens and 80 on to Rome to our old ro oms at the Costanzi, where we spent 2. the winter. My mother wanted another winter's work with Gio- vanni Costa, in his studio where again sh e had Gaorge Howard for companion, their companionship ripening into a friendship which was to remain through life. We had laid in a store of books on leaving London and read much that winter, having many friends inRome besides, which gave it a homelike aspect I have never felt elsewhere away from home; 1876 1 Charles Hazen Dorr Family Correspondence with George and Rosalind Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle 7. Sep 13, [1876] Paris Hotel du Jardin My dear Mrs Howard Signed Mary Gray Ward Dorr "We have just arrived here on our way up from Switzerland and are detained here for two or three days on business. We shall go over to London very soon for a few days as George must see his oculist. but I am more than sorry to say that we cannot come to Naworth in time to see you before you leave on the 20th. Mr Dorr has just received news of the sudden death of his brother, much older than himself, and the head of the family. [The deceased is the namesake of their son, George Bucknam Dorr (died September 3, 1876 at 70 years of age); within four months, Charles Dorr lost his eldest of two children and a brother] His loss is not only a sorrow to Mr Dorr, but it deserves a good deal of care and responsibility upon him - and he will be obliged to go at once to America for some weeks and this forced a change in our plans." Tr.* Mary Dorr relies on the "crumbs of her faith, [knowing] that she will not experience 'clear light' until she has crossed the 'shining river." She asks Rosalind to pardon her for her self-absorption for there are "very few" to whom she could speak with such freedom. " I am doing the best I can to mend up my broken life but every day I realize more and more fully that it is a broken life - broken beyond all cure. So far as this life is concerned. Surely such great capacity of loving and of suffering as the human soul possesses must mean a great deal somewhere in our own true home - and it becomes to me more and more clearly that [that] somewhere is our true home, and the goal of all our being and that we are here only for our preparation and our for that higher and better life - I cannot but feel too more and more that SO far from being mere waifs and strays floating about hither and thither at the mercy of a blind chance we are really directly in God's hand and under his immediate providence. " Tr. "We shall probably go to Holland & Belgium after Mr. Dorr sails. Then to Paris to await his return. We will stay abroad another year." * Tr. = Transcription provided by R.H. Epp; others by Anna Louise Mason 14. Sep 29, [ 1876] Paris Hotel Brighton Glenstone Tuesday evening Dec 13. Returning from a brief trip to America, my father took the train from Liverpool to London which ran through, expr sss, with but a single stop upon the way, at Chester. My father left Liverpool in an else empty coach. At Chester another gentleman got in and settled down to read his newspaper. Pres ntly, that done, he entered into conversation with my father and finding he had just comc over from New York, asked him some questions bearing on the political situation there. My father always took great interest in such matters from a broad standpoint, and they had a long and interesting talk together on matters american and English which lasted till they came to London. My father's fellow traveler it then tunrned out, was Mr. Gladstone then at the height of his political career My father took much interest in this chance meetng and opportunity for talk. He never had met Gladstone before nor did he ever see him afterwar s, but he bore him in high regard for his high humanity and broad, liberal views, and looked back upon the meeting with great interest. For his opponent Disraeli, he had slight regard, and I no more. Now, as then, it is it is hard for mc to realize how a Jew of his type could have been accepted by the English noblcmen a conservative party, as their leader, or how Queen Victoria ocould have looked on him with favor and given him her intimacy and support. 2. Wherever he went while we were abroad, then and later, the London Times followed us in it 8 daily edition, my father reading it always , even to its reports on law cases tried in court, and its book reviews, letters from corre pondents and reports of travelers It even followed us to America after our last trip together, when we went up the Nile, and I have still some unopened copies left of the last issues that c 2 m o out to us following his death. Left-alone After my father died, I read the Boston Horald then ably editied by my friend, Robert Lincoln O'Brien, but when he resigned his post on it, I subscribed to the New York Times, which followed me in turn wherever I was or went. These three newspapers have been to me a great political education the best the world could give, following daily its events and their comments on them, but forming my own opinion from occasionally their editorials. Sucn newspapers C.S these reflect the movement of the world. and are better than books, such- except histories if one must choose between them , but it is only a few newspapers that one can read in such fashion and get value from and they are not for the multitude. Dict nor. 23 1938 Lust 18 Wednesday Evening This quest after the homes of his ancestors and reading of the time in which they lived in charge which my father took keen interest opened up before me an understanding and intimate vision of the past which has stayed by me always. It is of such that real history is made, not the wars and cruelties and dynastic changes that are given U.S SO commonly but the lives and conditions of individual men, their thoughts and feelings. And intermingled with this was the interest of scenery% in a land with a far background of several occupation. Roman, and Celtic, Saxon and Norman, all making their separate contri- bution toward the time we live in, and in turn are formed by. History in the one form is looking at people collectively as they are grouped in nations or tribes; they are not real but abstractions of the mind. In the other sense, the personal sense they are individual and real endowed with 77th life and feeling, like to our- selves. And it is only by living with people in such guise that we really know them. This is the of history that interested me, bringing back the people of the past to life. That is what my father and myself sought to do with our ancestors and succeeded in doing to some slight degree. But it the world was very different to them from what/is to us 6 It was all very real and simple; they had no conception, near to us as they are in generation and in point of time, of the universe we know, and with our knowledge of it, it has become impossible to see things with their eyes, though we may feel with them with that sympathy which makes all life akin as it rises to our level or we to its. In trying to do this we learned a lot , both of them and of ourselves. It is extraordinary how swift the change has been in the outlook of thoughtful men, for whom the new discoveries of science have created a new world while yet making nothing clear. The advance is largely negative; we know, as our Puritan & ancestors did not that much they believed drew in and formed a picture of the universe they new for themselves cannot be, but we do know what is, except that it is not that. And in some ways they dream more greatly than we now can, and so it was that they created the great structures that they did, temples of worship to the living God. But yet perhaps not which more greatly than we shall, the world is to come. 8 D 1ctaphone, 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 80 much particularity. My father was what Chaucer would have calle d '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. No 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 Mary 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 80 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. with 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 Unitarism my grandfather on my mother's side, to his father's great concern. But behind the of that time lay the attitude of an earlier period **** 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 girlhood on. My father needed, truly, none to tell him what was xtp 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 12. Dict. 12 Sunday gyl page/ This search after my father's English ancestors, all of them whether ministers or not, belonging to the C1875 Puritan fold, material for which my father had brought out from home, proved of the greatest interest to both of us , taking us into towns and places we should not have otherwsie have visited and giving us real insi cht into the England of our origin. My mother is greater interest lay in the London galleries and their famous pictures and the famous old country seats with their gardens and their pictures, left open to the p blic on certain days and hours, upon payment of a fee to the housekeeper or guide appointed to show people In over and- who took interest enough to come./ this too, the gardens especially, I took myself the greatest interest; and the memory of them , seen then or in later years,visit and to the English countryside, led directly on upon our return to Mt. Desert America to the building of our old home at MKXXXEXXX and the oidform. establishement (bring to me to fit in if necessary) of the first true pleasure garden on Mt. Deart Island and, on so far/ as I know, XMX the whole Acadian shore from the Penboscto east, -- and a beautiful garden, too, it was with its flowers of the olden type and bedding plants only to fill in the caps in the later summer when the earlier bl omin- porennia S had donc their serson's work of insect life attraction through color, form on/ fragrance, and were ripening their seeds. Sropt Credits English gailen visits with Cyl 2 page 2 grness of anp. born out of a necessity, a menification f fate? We were astonished as we visited these old manor houses, to find how many of them there- were built on the site of courtiers and the ru red abbeys suppressed and given to his followers by Henry the Eight. But for the interest we took that summer and afterwards in those beautiful old English gardnes and the remnants of the old English I visited with my father, the work I later did at home would never have been done nor Acadia National Park become into existence. It. has been a matter of great interest to me all through the later years to see how , in little things as in creat, one thing leads on to another as directly s though willed by fate, free in themselves as our wills are, to determine what we do. The monks of old chose well the sites where they built their homes, in the most favored regions of the English countryside, their wealth and prosperity depending upon the crops their tenants raised. They were a burden on the land but no more than were the nobles and courtiers who followed them and who were far worse in wasting what the labor of the peasantry brought in, and they were in their time undoubtedly a much-needed refuge from the constant warfare of the period, the turanny and wastefulness of the court. In profession as in deed they upheld the spiritual side of life, its cultural and intellectual 8S ct throug the whole last period of the middle ages Between the and king there was ct that time but little to choose, but among the monks and nuns, the abbots and abbesses devoted to Tuesday evening, May 16, 1939. The father of Admiral Mahan, famous a generation Exter for the books ho wrote on the influence of Navios on XYP world affairs, which were much widely road and discussed on both dides the Atlantic, Those books are In my Oldfarm library and have givenintening to the speotacio whon I havo watched from Lto porob the American and British squadrons, sometimes together, amottimos Apart oomo steaming into Fronohmans Bay or leaving it. Professor Mohandaded at West Point three and a half years later In the winton of 1871-172, and my rather wrote to his widow, asking 1£ she would be aoll to him at her own price lands that she and her husband had bought at Mount Desert, and she sold them. In 1875, when we were planning to build the following year at Oldfarm, returning from Europem my father purchased from Mr. Lothrop hho share he had taken in the land first bought, completing his ownership of the original Henry Higgins! traot, whose deed from the DeGregoires is in the Oldfarm title. (877 THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF JOSIAH ROYCE John Clendering Vanderbilt is P., 1999. Youth and Education, 1870-1878 decrees," she says, "are not an affair of today or of yesterday, but they endure the German language. Considering his poverty, it seems unlikely that he could 60 forever, and no man knows whence they spring." Those in the audience who have afforded a private tutor; furthermore, since the university offered free 61 had read Royce's thesis on Aeschylus might have been reminded of it as they classes in German, the expense of private lessons would have been unnecessary. listened to the young man retell the myth of Antigone. Once again he was deal- Of course it is possible that he had learned German through independent study. ing with a triangular relationship that poses a conflict between human rebel- His undergraduate thesis does contain references to German scholarship, but lion and overbearing power, a conflict that is mediated by an appeal to a higher except for a title or two, he seems to have used only materials available in ideal. Eventually Royce would name this triad the community of interpreta- English translations. It seems odd, but not uncharacteristic, that Royce tion. The passage from Sophocles, Royce believed, expresses a picty that tran- embarked for a year's study in the German universities with no more than a very scends considerations of expedience, finite duty, and decorum. But can such a imperfect grasp of the language. defiant piety, Royce asked, be still relevant today? Or have science and At any rate he left California early in July and was in New York by the advanced social thought eliminated the possibility of idealism? One must eleventh. Gilman himself had just sailed for Europe to gather ideas and faculty agree, he admitted, that much of what we call morality has been socially con- for Johns Hopkins, but before leaving he had taken care to provide Royce with ditioned by changing circumstances. But refusing to acquiesce entirely to rel- letters of introduction to influential men in the East. One of those letters intro- ativism, he insisted that there remains a portion of morality "which is our duced him to George Dorr, a wealthy young man, only two years older than property by virtue of our humanity." Like Antigone, we may not know the Royce, and a member of Boston's elite social class. With Dorr's help Royce source of this morality, but we feel it. "This part of our nature is independent toured the Boston and Harvard libraries. Dorr also arranged a dinner party with of circumstances, and because it is the result of a higher and wider experience, leading intellectuals of Boston and Cambridge, including William James and it is to be obeyed." George Herbert Palmer. Royce arrived at Dorr's home early, wearing a thread- bare suit, the only one he owned. Dorr met him in full evening dress, took one look, and said, "Royce, I think you are right; it's too hot for formal clothes this Graduate Years evening. If you will excuse me, I'll run upstairs and change." Aside from his clothes, Royce must have presented a strange appearance. His passport, lack- The commencement exercises of 1875 made Royce a bachelor of arts, a ing a photograph, contained a highly unflattering description: age, 19; stature, degree restricted to those specializing in classics. The twenty-five men who 5' '61"; forehead, full, broad; eyes, blue; nose, short; mouth, large; chin, round; received degrees on that day brought the university's total number of graduates hair, red; complexion, florid; face, inclined to oval. Many years later, after they to an even sixty. The day's festivities were, however, dampened somewhat by the all had become close friends, Katharine Royce asked William James if Josiah earlier departure in April of President Gilman. After a brief, stormy, but pro- had not seemed lawfully backward. "On the contrary," James said, "we talked ductive administration, Gilman had resigned to become the founding president afterwards of the charm and delight of his conversation." of Johns Hopkins. Before leaving and afterward he worked with a group of local On July 15 Royce sailed from New York on the steamer Klopstock bound for businessmen in providing a fund to finance what Josiah called his "European Hamburg. In Germany, following his plan, he proceeded up the Rhine and the expedition." Like many other American youths in the nineteenth century, Royce Neckar to the ancient city of Heidelberg. Remaining there for something less hoped to continue his studies for at least one year in the German universities. than three months, Royce must have spent most of his time trying to master the On June 14 he wrote to Gilman saying that he had been promised five hundred language. Of his first impressions and social life, little is known, but when he dollars and could expect about one thousand dollars altogether. "I am in good returned to Heidelberg in 1908 to attend a meeting of the International health, hopeful, and a graduate of the University. Your influence in getting me Congress of Philosophy, his mind was filled with loving memories of the uni- this assistance is going to be the making of my whole life." versity's traditions, the city's medieval ruins, and its magnificent natural setting. Although Royce did not know exactly how to use this precious opportunity, As a student he seems always to have been very busy. He had hoped to increase he did have initial plans. They included an overland trip to New York, a voyage his income by writing articles for the Overland Monthly, which had already pub- by steamer to Hamburg, and a period of study in Heidelberg. He was commit- lished two of his essays, "The Aim of Poetry" and "The Life-Harmony," but he ted, at least temporarily, to Germany. If this plan was conventional, it was also soon found that his university work left him with very little free time. A single a bold one, for there is no record to indicate that Royce had had any training in diversion is recorded. Gilman passed through Heidelberg in September. Royce Vol. 200 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1878 Act. 36] LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES 201 away the guaranty, and I feel (provided I am überhaupt opportunities for a life-work in philosophy in this country in vigorous condition) a sort of deep enthusiastic bliss, of were few. Most of my friends and advisers had long been bitter willingness to do and suffer anything, which trans- telling me to let the subject alone. Perhaps, so far as I lates itself physically by a kind of stinging pain inside my was concerned, their advice was sound; but in any case I breast-bone (don't smile at this - it is to me an essential was, so far, incapable of accepting that advice. Yet if some- element of the whole thing!), and which, although it is a body had not been ready to tell me that I had a right to work ere mood or emotion to which I can give no form in words, for truth in my own way, I should ere long have been quite authenticates itself to me as the deepest principle of all discouraged. I do not know what I then could have done. active and theoretic determination which I possess. James found me at once - made out what my essential in- W. ] terests were at our first interview, accepted me with all my imperfections, as one of those many souls who ought to be The next letter contains the first reference to work on able to find themselves in their own way, gave a patient and the "Psychology." It also introduces into this volume willing ear to just my variety of philosophical experience, the name and personality of a colleague-to-be with whom and used his influence from that time on, not to win me as James's relations were destined to be close and permanent. a follower, but to give me my chance. It was upon his re- Josiah Royce was then a young man "from the intellec- sponsibility that I was later led to get my first opportuni- tual barrens of California" whose brilliant work was still ties here at Harvard." to be done, and whose philosophic genius had not yet been The opportunities did not ripen until 1882-83, however; disclosed to the public, although it may fairly be said to and in the meanwhile Royce returned to the young Uni- have been announced by every line of his engagingly Soc- versity of California as an instructor in logic and rhetoric. rates-like face and figure. He had been born and brought Letters written to him there will show how cordially James up among the most primitive surroundings in Grass Valley, continued to sympathize with the aspirations of his young California, and won his way to a brief period of study in friend, and how eagerly he fostered the possibility of an Germany and to a degree at Johns Hopkins in 1878. While appointment to the Harvard philosophical department. yet a student there, he paid a visit to Cambridge, and he When the opportunity arose, James seized it. Thereafter has left his own quotable record of the meeting which re- he and Royce saw each other so constantly in Cambridge sulted, and of what followed. that there were not many occasions for either to write letters "My real acquaintance with [James] began one summer- to the other. Instead, allusions to Royce appear frequently 1877 day in 1877, when I first visited him in [his father's] house in the letters to other people. on Quincy Street, and was permitted to pour out my soul The philosophical club which is alluded to at the end of to somebody who really seemed to believe that a young man the letter was presided over by Dr. W. T. Harris and held might rightfully devote his life to philosophy if he chose. I informal meetings in Boston during this winter. It was was then a student at the Johns Hopkins University. The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, vol. XVIII, p. 631 (June, 1910). Vol./ 202 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1879 TO JOSIAH ROYCE 203 Act. 37] described in the Essay on Davidson. (See Memories and substance. My sentence, I perceive, has a rather uncom- Studies, pages 81, 82.) Dr. C. C. Everett, Prof. G. H. plimentary sound. I meant only to say that you should Palmer, and Thomas Davidson were among the members. not be deterred from treating him in your own way from fear of inadequacy. All his commentators must un- To Josiah Royce. doubtedly be inadequate for some time to come; but they CAMBRIDGE, Feb. 16 [1879]. will all help each other out. He seems to me the wealth- My DEAR ROYCE,- Your letter was most welcome. I iest mine of thought I ever met with. had often found myself wondering how you were getting With me, save for my eyes, things are jogging along on, and your wail as the solitary philosopher between Beh- smoothly. I am writing (very slowly) what may become rings' Strait and Tierra del Fuego has a grand, lonesome a text-book of psychology. A proposal from Gilman to picturesqueness about it. I am sorry your surroundings teach in Baltimore three months yearly for the next three are not more mentally congenial. But recollect your ex- years had to be declined as incompatible with work here. treme youth and the fact that you are making a living and I will send you a corrected copy of Harris's journal with practising yourself in the pedagogic art, überhaupt. You my article on Space, which was printed without my seeing might be forced to do something much farther away from your chosen line, and even then not make a living. I think the proof. I suppose you subscribe to "Mind." The only decent you are a lucky youth even as matters stand. Unexpected chances are always turning up. A fortnight ago Presi- thing I have ever written will, I hope, appear in the July number of that sheet. The delays of publication are fear- dent Eliot was asked to recommend some one for a $5000 ful. Most of this was written in 1877. If it ever sees the professorship of philosophy in the New York City College. light, I hope you will let me know what you think of it, One Griffin of Amherst was finally appointed. I imagine and how it tallies with your own theory of the Concept, that Gilman [of Johns Hopkins] is keeping his eye on you which latter I would fain swallow and digest. I wish you and only waiting for the disgrace of youth to fade from your belonged to our philosophic club here. It is very helpful person. to the uprooting of weeds from one's own mind as well as I liked your article on Schiller very much, and hope you the detection of beams in one's neighbor's eyes. Write will send more to Harris. That most villainous of editors, often and believe me ,faithfully yours, as I am told, has himself been to Baltimore lately as an office- WM. JAMES. seeker. But the rumor may be false. In some respects he might be a useful man for the Johns Hopkins University, The only decent thing I have ever written" appeared in Mind under follows: the but I would give no more for his judgment than for that of title "This article is the first chapter of a psychological work on the motives which "The Sentiment of Rationality." A footnote (p. 346) ran as a Digger Indian. I hope you will write something about lead men to philosophize. It deals with the purely theoretic or logical impulse. Hodgson. He is quite as worthy as Kant of supporting Other chapters treat of practical and emotional motives, and in the conclusion an attempt is made to use the motives as tests of the soundness of different philos- any number of parasites and partial assimilators of his ophies." Vol. / 204 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1880 Act. 38] TO JOSIAH ROYCE 205 To Fosiah Royce. My ignorant prejudice against all Hegelians, except Hegel CAMBRIDGE, Feb. 3, 1880. himself, grows wusser and wusser. Their sacerdotal airs! BELOVED ROYCE!- So far was I from having forgotten and their sterility! Contemplating their navels and the you that I had been revolving in my mind, on the very day syllable oum! My dear friend Palmer, assistant professor when your letter came, the rhetorical formulas of objurga- of philosophy here, is already one of the white-winged tion with which I was to begin a page of inquiries of you: band, having been made captive by Caird in two summers whether you were dead and buried or had become an idiot of vacation in Scotland. The ineffectiveness and or were sick or blind or what, that you sent no word of impotence of the ending of [Caird's] work on Kant seem to yourself. I am blind as ever, which may excuse my silence. me simply scandalous, after its pretentious (and able) First of all Glückwünsche as to your Verlobung! which, beginning. What do you think of Carveth [Reid]'s Essay like the true philosopher that you are, you mention paren- on Shadworth [Hodgson]? I have read it. Our Phil- thetically and without names, dates, numbers of dollars, osophic Club here is given up this year - I think we 're all etc., etc. I think it shows great sense in her, and no small rather sick of each other's voices. My teaching is small amount of it in you, whoe'er she be. I have found in mar- in numbers, though my men are good. I've tried Re- riage a calm and repose I never knew before, and only wish nouvier as a text-book - for the last time! His exposition I had done the thing ten years earlier. I think the lateness offers too many difficulties. I enjoyed your Rhapsody on of our usual marriages is a bad thing, and hope your engage- Space, and hereby pledge myself to buy two copies of your ment will not last very long. work ten years hence, and to devote the rest of my life to It is refreshing to hear your account of philosophic work. the propagation of its doctrines. I despise my own article," I'm sorry you 've given up your article on Hodgson. which was dashed off for a momentary purpose and published He is obscure enough, and makes me sometimes wonder for another. But I don't see why its main doctrine, from whether the ignotum does not pass itself off for the magnif- a psychologic and sublunary point of view, is not sound; ico in his pages. I enclose his photograph as a loan, trust- and I think I can, if my psychology ever gets writ, set it ing you will return it soon. I will never write again for down in decently clear and orderly form. All deducers of Harris's journal. He refused an article of mine a year ago space are, I am sure, mythologists. You are, after all, not "for lack of room," and has postponed the printing of SO very much isolated in California. We are all isolated two admirable original articles by T. Davidson and Elliot columns left alone of a temple once complete," etc. Cabot for the last ten months or more, in order to accom- Books are our companions more than men. But I wish modate Mrs. Channing's verses and Miss 's drivel nevertheless, and firmly expect, that somehow or other about the school of Athens, etc., etc. It is too loathsome. you will get a call East, and within my humble sphere of Harris has resigned his school position in St. Louis and power I will do what I can to further that end. My ac- will, I am told, come East to live. I know not whether cursed eye-sight balks me always about study and pro- he means to lay siege to the Johns Hopkins professorship. The Spatial Quale," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1879, vol. XIII, p. 64. Automatic writing. Apart from the early delveopments of spiritualism in England and America in the eighteen forties and on, much interest was taken when I was a boy in what was called 'automatic writing', and very 5/15 curious things sometimes came from it. After my brother's death 1876 in New York, of a sudden fever while we were in England, my mother sought, if he still lived in spirit, if she might not get into communication with him, if only fragmentary and disjointed, through such writing, my father putting his hand on hers while she held the pencil. In this way during the following summer and after much was written which she believed might come from my brother, neither she nor my father knowing while the penc il wrote what was coming. Baseless or not, it was a help to my mother in a time of great need, for her bond with my brother had been exceedingly close and intimate. Much of the thought that came in this way, whatever its source was exceedingly interesting, not only to my mother but to others years afterward to whom she read it. This automatic writing lead to hershowing kindness to the American Secretary of the English Psychical Research Socity, es- tablished in Boston by the English Society for investigation of mediums and experimental work. The English Society stood very high in its personel and aims. Men like Sir Oliver Lodge, one Writing =2 of the leading physicists in the world at that time, Sir Arthur Balfour and his sister, the wife of Professor Henry Sidgwick of Cambridge University, and other University men all took part in it, funds were raised and experiments carried on under strict scientific observation, and annual and semi-annual reports were published, all of a high grade, and commanding respect. Another of the world's great physicists, Sir Arthur Crookes, was actively interested in it and carried on experiments himself, not hesitating to come forward with his conclusion that there was real matter in it for careful study and hope of results which, if proven true, might be of infinite importance to the world. Another leadergin the formation and work of this society was Frederick Myers, son of a clergyman in the north of England and a University man himself and author of high standing. He was brought to it by a great tragedy in his own life in which some one very dear to him had died and of whose survival after death, if nothing more, he hoped to get evidence. Passionately interested and following up everyclue, he wrote a book 'The Survival of Man', published only after years of work, in two stout volumes, which is the only really sound and authoritative work on the subject as a whole which has ever been published and contains material, well authenticated which is alike hard to accept and difficult to dis-credit. The man sent out from England to take up the work in America Riohard Hodgson, was an Autralian by birth, a recent graduate of Cambridge University in England who first came into relation with Automatic Witing -3 the subject through an extraordinary experience of his own while he was still at the University, in connection with the sudden un-looked for death of a girl in Australia whom he was engaged to when he came out to England. His story of it, told me in convincing detail when he was staying with us once at Oldfarm I do not now recall but put it in the category of facts neither to be explained nor easily to be credited. Coming into contact with him, as did I. through William James, himself deeply interested in the work and in close touch concerning it with the English Society, my mother invited Mr. Hodgson down to stay with us at Oldfarm where he made long visits afterward and became intimate with us both, my mother and I. And through him in 18 we came into intimate relation also with Frederick Myers on his coming out to America to look up some of the phenomena Richard Hodgson had made report of to the Society, Myers coming out to stay with us at Oldfarm for a week or more when we took, with other friends whom we had staying with us, long late walks together and had much intimate talk. This was in the 1880's later eighteen eighties. In 1891 my father, mother and I went abroad for a year to spend the winter on the Nile and the spring in Palestine and Greece, an exceedingly interesting trip. When 1891 we returned, reaching Boston in the early July 1892, where we 1892 stayed a day or two on our way to Bar Harbor, Richard Hodgson met us full of certain extraordinary experiences which had developed that winter and spring in which people we knew, some of them intimately, came intimately in and which Dr. Hodgeon (to give him his full academic title) regarded as convincing -definite proof Automatic Writing -4 of survival and immediate contact. Among the people most intimately concerned were Mrs. Perry, wife of Professor Thomas Perry- grandson of Commander Perry, ofamous in our Navy annals - the and his wife, daughter of one of the leading surgeons of my father's time Dr. Cabot, and sister of one of the leading surgeons of my own time in Boston, Dr. Arthur Cabot. The evidence con- cerned someone who had been exceedingly intimate in the Perry household and had died of an accident some months before. There were three daughters in the Perry family, the youngest of whom a child at that time eight years old, to whom this friend intimate in the house, had shown great kindness and who received her experiences, with the simplicity of a child, as perfectly natural happendings, not becoming in any way extited over them or seeking to draw attention to herself by telling of them, which I heard of directly only through her mother, though her whole family, her father included, believed in implicitly. It was one of those durious cases which lend themselves to no explanation, can be credited with difficulty, yet seem impossible to reject. Such phenomena cannot be produced at will and much evidence must be forthcoming before the age-long experi- ence of man-kind in contradiction can be overturned. The phenomena ceased; too much publicity could not be given to the matter on the family's account and though it roused great interest in England when reported out by Dr. Hodgson to the Psychical Research Society, it passed into the general gathering of material which neither could be explained away nor accepted assevidential. It had, however, a Automatic Writing -5 profuond effect upon Dr. Hodgson in relation to his further work, for he was 80 convinced of the truth of it as establishing evi- dence of survival that he deased to doubt and took a less critical attitude toward later developments, some of which I was frankly convinced myself must have come from the mediums own mind, the medium through whom Dr. Hodgson was working at that time and con- tinued to work with till he died a few years afterward, being one famous in the general investigations of the subject. The child to whom these extraordinary phenomena came and who received them so naturally and unhesitatingly became the wife when she grew up of Joseph Grew distinguished in the United States Diplomatic Service, at one time Ambassador to Japan, at another to Turkey and Ambassador now to Italy. Her father, Thomas Perry, was Professor of English Literature at Harvard, a writer of note and professor later of Philosophy, on the invita- tion of the Japanese Government, at the University of Tokyo for two years. He, like his wife, believed without question in the genuinensss and veridical character of these phenomena, which were not the only ones that had taken place in the family. I remember Mrs. Perry telling me of this same child when, still younger, telling her, when they were out in their house in the country which had been the home before them of Mrs. Perry's father, of a kind old lady coming in to sit by her bedside till she went asleep, whom as she told it her mother recognized as describing, unmistakably to her, her own mother, the child's grandmother who Automatic Writing -6 had lived there before them. The child showed no excitement over it but took it on the basis of an actual happending; the lady had come and sat by her and she was a kind lady whom she had liked to have there. Twowor three times afterward the same figure appeared to the child in the same way, then c ame no more. Mrs. William James the wife of Professor William James of Harvard had also certain remarkable experiences which she told me of, in one of which her daughter, Margaret or Peggy, had re- ceived a message, through some medium that Richard Hodgson was investigating, from her aunt, William James'sister, who had died not long before and wished, as I recall it, to have given in remembrance of her certain family property. The details of it have passed from my mind but of the extraordinary character of the communication, whatever its source might be, remains vividly impressed upon my mind. Mrs. James was an extraordinarily good 'sitter', seldom going to visit Dr. Hodgson without getting some- thing of exceptional interest, while William James himself, more interested than she to get matter of scientific value, was himself a poor 'sitter', seldom getting phénomena of the type he sought. And knowing them both as well as I did, it seemed to me natural it should be so. Mrs. James had a restful, naturally receptive character which could but fail, if there were anything genuins in the penomena, to bring it out, while William James with his restless, actively questioning mind would have just the opposite effect in getting resalts dependence upon the establishment any form, of a sympathetic reaction. Brother. My brother. who had been studying law in Mr. Lewis L. Delafield's office in New York during the winter and early spring of 1875-76 died of a sudden fever in the spring of 1876. My father, mother and I were in London at the time. We got a cablegram telling of my brother's illness. It was Saturday morning and the Cunard steamer from Liver- pool would have been just sailing when the cable reached us. The Cunard steamers always stopped at Queenstown after crossing the Irish channel to pick up the late mail from London, the Irish mail it was called, which left London the afternoon of the day of sailing from Liverpool and which was carried by swift train and steamer to Dublin and thence by train to Queenstown where the steamer waited for it. My father caught the steamer by this train, as he had just time to do and was in mid-ocean on his way to New York when my mother and I in London got a second cablegram telling us that my yples brother had died. He died of typhua fever which was spread home.,I more or less endemic at that time in New York, brought , by by immigrants whom steamers brought at that time in unlimited numbers. How he caught it is a mystery. He had his own apartment in an apartment house, then lately a caung built, on the corner of 26th street and 5th avenue, an was in Brother -2 excellent location, and he worked on his law studies in Mr. Delafield's office downtown. There were no subways then nor elevated railroad, and he walked generally to Mr. Delafield's office for the sake of the exercise, and had a horse kept at a stable near the Park on which he rode in the afternoons, for he was an excellent horse- man and fond of riding. Typhus fever is dangerously infectious. I had two Two uncles on my mother's dide living in New York at the time rick but they both had families and neither of them ven tured to go near my brother in his illness. Mrs. Delafield, with whom my brother had come into relation of warm per- sonal friendship when they had met abroad a couple of years before, though she had a family of young children, went in and tended him and to ok charge, an act of true heroism for which none of us could be too grateful. Thrhat she should have done so and that her husband should have been willing she should I have always regarded as an extraordinary tribute to the relation that had sprung up between them and the regard in which they held him. My brother had just completed a report for the New York Ear Association which Mr. Delafield, who was one of the leading lawyers of the City at that time, had asked him to prepare and the New York Bar Association passed a resolution commending the report, following his Brother -3 death, for its value and the good work he had done upon it. My brother had joined the Knickerbocker Club on going to New York to make his residen ce the autumn before and gone out a good deal in New York society through the winter, making many warm friends. New York was then very different socially from what it became two decades later. It was then, like Boston and Philadelphia, an old society with inherited standards and traditions of self- respect. The great new fortunes had not then begun in- vasion of it. must My father arrived only in time to purchase a lot at Mount Auburm Cemetery, where both my brother's and my grandfathers had purchased lots upon its first establish- ment and were buried, and bury my brother in it. John Krendo He chose the lot himself,looking out southward to the river valley from the hillside on which there grew old hickory trees whose light foliage cast a pleasant shade over the lot. He chose it for its pleasantness and my mother loved it and often visited it after her return from Europe. Both she and my father and my brother Darri nurse and my nurse, who W as living still and with us at that time, caring for our house in Boston, all now lie buried there. Brother -4 Before we received the telegram in London telling of my brother's illness we had all accepted an invitation from friends we had made in Rome the winter before, George Howard and his wife. George Howard was the next in line and heir to the Earl of Carlisle, still living but an invalid beyond all hope of recovery, and who died soon afterward. George Howard was an artist of no slight ability gow who had gone to Rome that previous winter to study under pred one of the leading Italian artists of that time, Giovanni Costa, wi th whom my mother also studied during the winter, learning to paintlandscape in oils, which became a great resource to her afterward, at home and abroad, during the rest of her life. on getting the cablegram concerning my brother, I wrote for my mother to Mrs. Poward excusing ourselves from coming to their dinner owing to news that had come to us from home and had taken my father away. George Howard immediately came around to our hotel to learn what our news had been and whether there was anything that he and his wife could do for us. I told him of our cablegram and he insisted, for his wife as for himself, on our leaving the hotel and coming out once to their house in Paris Green looking out most pleasantly upon Kensington Park and its old trees and away f ram the noise Brother -5 and traffic of the City. The second cablegram came al- most immediately afterward and we went thankfully to stay with the Howards, establishing a friendship that never ceased or grew colder so long as we any of us lived. My father presently returned and the Howards in- - Dorrt sisted that we come to stay with them in their old Castle, Hourth Neworth, nnt far from the Scottish border in cumberland. Cistle It was a most interesting old castle, surrounded by a moat; which had withstood many a raid in the early days from across the border and is spoken of by Sir Waiter scott in one of his stories. Many years afterward when George Howard, now become the Earl of Carlisle, came out to America on some matter he had interest in, he stayed with me in Boston and speaking of that stay at Naworth I said that the wall built solidly of stone through which the window of my room opened, narrow on the outside widening within, must have been three or four feet thick. "Eight or ten", he said. But within, the living rooms opened wide and pleasantly on a grassy court. Outside, the castle which on one side rose up from the edge of a deep, narrow glen, was elsewhere surrounded by an open park where deer and cattle grazed and old oak trees grew, scattering as nature planned them. Brothers -6 There, made at home in the kindest way, we stayed long and quietly. The Howards had a large family of children, ranging from the oldest daughter down. She was devoted to my mother, who had much to give always to younger people. Later, this older daughter married Gilbert lucray Murray the noted Greek scholar and translator of the old Greek Dramatists, au thor and lecturer. One of the sons whom we then saw a little boy was killed in a charge of the English troops under Lord Kitchener at the Battle of Omdurman against the fanatinal tribesman of the Mahdi at Kartum, near)twenty years afterward. The whole family were extraordinarily individual. Mrs. Howard was one of the Stanleys of Alderley. 1330 ROSS No. 11238 HEALTH DEPARTMENT, BUREAU or VITAL STATISTICS, No. 301 MOTT STREET SEE BACK OF THIS PERMIT. New York maylle 78, 6 of William WLearn 28 given Age to remove the remains Ocoupation Place of Birth Boston Place of Death Stroms Building 442787 Date of Death may 16. Cause of Death, To Boston mass for Interment Stoon I y nagle Losto Register of Recor as. over Mount Auburn Historical collections. N.Y. Boreau of VitalStatics Death certificate W.W.Dar 5/16/1876. Dorr Papers e (original) 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, 1877) 2. I live, I do not think 1t 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 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. The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the said Thomas Wren Ward is treasurer to the said President and 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 COPY Genealogical Society 101 Newbury Street Boston, MA 02116 MHS. Endicott Family Papers. B35.f.l't. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 17 you. 1877 I have the honor to acknowledge on behalf of the President & Fellows of Harvard College the safe receipt of Page's portrait your honored father, the late Treasurer of the College. It has been hung in the 2 During Hall, above the portrail of President duriney. The President & Fellows rejecie that a valued friend and servant of the College should be thus commemorated In the now which account pamied this gift there was mention in the extrach from Me Mard's will of a volume which gave an account of his March 9th. 7 Continuing Diotation to Mrs. Stover. The Stanleys of Alderly of Lady Carlisle's generation were an extraordinarily individual family group, each member of it going his or her own way. And it was typically English. Lady Carlisle, one of twelve children, was no exception. She was of fair haired, strong-built, Saxon stock which battled with William the Conqueror at Hastings and with some slight change of costume would have fitted well into the picture of that time. Carlisle was just the opposite, typical of what we associate with the Normans so how the Norsemen's short residence in France could have brought so great a change in their racial type has always been a mystery to me. He was artistic, critical, kind of heart and full of prejudice. The Lord of Carlisle were the second in rank in the noble powered descent, the Duke of Norfolk being first. Ho was, I think, the leading Catholic peer in England but the Carlisle branch had no Catholic leanings. George Howard's father was still living at the time I write of and was the oldest member in points of service of the House of Commons, much looked up to and respected. He died soon afterwards, before inheriting the Carlisle title. George Howard was, I think, the only son. His sympathies, like those of the English nobility generally, had been with the south in our Civil War; his wife's were with the north and equally positive. But this had made no difference in their relations when, boy and girl friends, they became engaged while he was at the University still and she just coming out. He was warm friend of Mazzini during his years of exile in England and a warm friend to the cause of liberty in Italy when its patriots were working against they tyranny of Austria in Northern Italy and the temporal power of the Popes. He was an intimate friend, too, of William Morris, socialist and poot and of a whole group of the leading artists of the time, Burne Jones, Frederick Leighton and the rest, and the men of literature. And their house was a center of the most interesting kind. Both Howard and his wife were Liberals in politics, as had the generation upon either side before them. with Lady Stanley of Alderly, Mrs. Howard's mother, the liberal projudice -- for such it was -- was see incredibly strong; she could/no good whatever in a Conservative. But 11 A11 nature's differenne makes all nature's wholo" and England and the world seemed able then and for a generationsafter t111 life reached the rapids and all went tumbling. 11/8/2017 Naworth Castle Wikipedia Coordinates: 54°57'20"N 2°41'20"W WIKIPEDIA Naworth Castle Naworth Castle, also known as, or recorded in historical documents Naworth Castle as "Naward", is a castle in Cumbria, England, near the town of Brampton. It is adjacent to the A69 about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Brampton, Cumbria, England Brampton. It is on the opposite side of the River Irthing to, and just within sight of, Lanercost Priory. It was the seat of the Barons Dacre and is now that of their cognatic descendants, the Earls of Carlisle. It is a grade I listed building. [1] Contents 1 History 1.1 1844 fire 2 Miscellanea Aerial photograph of Naworth Castle 3 See also 4 References Naworth 5 External links Castle History The castle is thought to have late 13th-century origins, in the form of a square keep and bailey. It was first mentioned in 1323, and in 1335 a licence to crenellate was granted to Ralph Dacre. Thomas Dacre (1467-1525), who commanded the reserve of the English army at the Battle of Flodden and was known as "the Builder Coordinates 54°57'20"N Dacre", built the castle's gateway and placed over it his coat of arms 2°41'20"W with the Dacre family motto below: Fort en Loialte (Norman-French: Grid grid reference "Strong in Loyalty"). [2] There were further additions in 1602, for his reference NY559625 successor Lord William Howard. It is likely that the 18th-century Site history walled garden lies within the boundaries of the original moat. Materials Stone Howard purchased back the Dacre family estate from King James and took up residence with his children and grandchildren at Naworth Castle. He restored the castle, improved the estate and established order in that part of the country. He had a large family of children, of whom Philip, his heir, was the grandfather of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, and his younger son Francis was the ancestor of the Howards of Corby. William Morris, the artist and socialist, stayed at the castle in August 1874. In a letter to Aglaia Coronio he writes " ...all is very pleasant. Ned & I pass our mornings in a most delightful room in one of the towers that has not been touched since William Howard of Queen Elizabeth's time lived there: the whole place is certainly the most evacuated from its own buildings by various government departments. It is currently occupied by Philip Howard, brother and heir presumptive of the 13th Earl of Carlisle. [4] 1844 fire On Saturday, 18 May 1844 the castle caught fire, possibly as a result of the ignition of some soot in the flue of the Porter's Lodge. The structure's lack of internal walls allowed the fire to spread rapidly, and it remained unchecked until it reached the northern wing. Although some property was saved, by the time two fire engines had arrived by train from Carlisle, most of the roof had collapsed and the fire had spread to nearly every room on the three sides of the quadrangle. Water had to be passed in buckets from a rivulet at the foot of a steep hill on the north side of the castle. "Belted Will's Tower" was saved while the fire continued until around one o'clock on Sunday morning when it was brought under control. [5] Subsequent restoration was undertaken by the architect Anthony Salvin.(2) Miscellanea The Castle has a well-preserved priest hole. Francis Galton is said to have invented the concept of correlation at Naworth Castle. [6] Sir Walter Scott described the castle as "one of those extensive baronial seats which marked the splendour of our ancient nobles, before they exchanged the hospitable magnificence of a life spent among a numerous tenantry, for the uncertain honours of court attendance, and the equivocal rewards of ministerial favour."[5] See also Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria Listed buildings in Brampton, Carlisle Castles in Great Britain and Ireland List of castles in England References 1. Historic England. "Naworth Castle (1087643)" (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/108764, 3). National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 July 2015. 2. "Naworth Castle" (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001286/18550716/063/0005).Bell's Weekly Messenger. 16 July 1855. Retrieved 17 November 2015 - via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)). 3. P. Henderson, ed., The Letters of William Morris to His Family and Friends (London: Longmans, 1950) 4. "Welcome to Naworth Castle" (http://www.naworth.co.uk/). Naworth Castle. Retrieved 2 August 2015. 5. An Historical & Descriptive Account of Naworth Castle, and Lanercost Priory: With a Life of Lord William Howard, and an Account of the Destruction of Naworth Castle by Fire, May 18th, 1844 (https://books.google. com/books?id=HI4xAQAAMAAJ). I. Fletcher Whitridge. 1844, p. vii-x1. 6. Life of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson Vol 2, p. 393 (http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchlmages/search/pearson/v ol2/pages/vol2_0458.htm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naworth_Castle 2/3 Mrs 8 Friday Evening, October 31, 1938. 2 To that picnic at the Lake of Nemi came one of those rare beings who seemed afterwards to have disappeared ########## completely from our world, a beautiful woman, beautiful like some greek goddess of the olden times. I met her then for the first time but came afterwards to know her well that winter. She was a Philadelphian, a widow already although still young, Lina Peters by her maiden name, who had married Craig Wardsworth of the New York -- ? -- family but had no children, nor should have had for she, like the Greed goddesses again, seemed to stand out alone, the embodiment of beauty. She was one of those whom men delight X to honor, or did at that time, a time which was already passing when I grew up. For there is a Darri fashion in men's thoughts and this belonged to what tomarks has been called the Romantic Period. She talked favord., freely to me afterward, when I came to know her of what this attitude of men toward her had meant in her life, as to have worshippers must have meant to the Greeks goddesses of old. When she had gone to a ball in her earlier years, she told me, a train of a dozen men or more who had been waiting for her, entered the ballroom with her carrying the flowers, big bouquets, which according to the custom of that period men had sent her. She could not herself have carried even a part of them. Women do not seem to stand out in these days as some did then, and the world is the poorer as I think for it. For it means the loss of an ideal, the loss of something that does not enter into the world of fact. Another woman, less beautiful, pl/ whom I remember at that picnic was one whom I met also then for the first time, was the daughter, a few years older than myself, of a general in the Rebel army, of a proud old southern family who married not long afterward the French general who had been in command of the French tooops, who before the Franco-German war of 1870, had maintained as an army of occupation the Pope in his temporal dominion against the will of Italy. 2. When that army was withdrawn for service in the war, the temporal dominion ceased to be. That, was the time when we were there and one full of interest on which to stand in memory and view the changes that have since come, It was an end of an epoch, the beginning of another full of astounding change. Lake Nemi Page 1 of 1 Back to Home Page or Contents Page or Goddess and Witchcraft or Index Lake Nemi Lake Nemi is an ancient lake that is located east of Rome in the Alban Hills where the temple of Diana once stood, surrounded by her sacred grove. In ancient times the lake was known as "Diana's Mirror" because the reflection of the moon upon Lake Nemi could be perfectly viewed from the temple. A stream flowed into Lake Nemi from a sacred grotto nearby the temple. This stream was associated with the water nymph named Egeria. Both Egeria and Diana are early forms in the Lady of the Lake mythos. The Lady of the Lake was intimately connected with the guardian of the sacred grove of Diana. He was referred to as Rex Nemorensis, the King of the Woods, whose role it was to guard Diana's sanctuary at Nemi. It might be mentioned that the Irish word neimed that means "sanctuary" is uniquely similar to the word "Nemi" itself, which comes from the Latin nemus, meaning "sacred grove." A.G.H. Source: 78, 213-214. 186rth 1 W C r Antones Mallo Siskerot http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/I/lake_nemi.htm 6/13/2003 Page 1 of 2 Nemi. Site with sanctuary of the goddess Diana beside the lake of the same name that fills a volcanic crater in the Alban hills 25 km south-east of Rome, Italy. Both lake and town take their name from the nemus (Lat.: 'sacred wood'). The sanctuary originated before the 6th century BC as the centre for a local cult in the territory of the Latin town of Aricia; it continued to flourish under Roman rule until the 4th century AD. The peculiar slave priesthood of Diana Nemorensis was the inspiration for Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough (London, 1890-1915), while the picturesque scenery of the area attracted English landscape artists in the late 18th and 19th centuries, notably J. M. W. Turner, who painted several views of the lake. The main remains of the sanctuary now visible to the north-east of the lake are of a large rectangular terraced precinct (c. 44,000 sq. m), with retaining walls constructed as a series of arched niches faced in pseudo-reticulate masonry. Archaeological discoveries made there are recorded from the mid-17th century onwards, but the first systematic excavations were by Sir John Savile Lumley (later Lord Savile) in 1885. He identified a large masonry podium in the western half of the precinct as the Temple of Diana itself, but this does not correspond with Vitruvius' description of that temple (On Architecture, IV.viii.4), which is probably the still unexcavated building shown on a plan of 1856 as standing further up the hillside. Lumley also explored several rooms on the north side of the precinct and selected areas within it, finding numerous votive and architectural terracottas, coins and some sculpture. His own share of the finds, presented to the Castle Museum at Nottingham, England, is now the main archaeological collection from the sanctuary. Much of what was found in further digging after 1885 on behalf of the landowner, Prince Orsini, is now untraceable, but the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen acquired most of the best sculpture as well as material from earlier antiquarian collections, while the bronzes and terracottas went elsewhere (e.g. Rome, Villa Giulia). On the basis of these finds a broad chronology of the site can be defined. Initially the sanctuary consisted merely of a triple image of Diana in bronze (c. 500 BC), standing in a clearing in the sacred wood, an image shown on coins issued in 43 BC (e.g. Oxford, Ashmolean). In the late 4th century BC to the early 3rd, however, the site began to receive buildings decorated with architectural terracottas, and it became a focus for votive offerings made for health and fertility. The third phase (c. 100 BC) consisted of the large-scale landscaping of the sanctuary, with a terraced precinct and new temples. Finally, in the early Roman Empire, the sanctuary was eclipsed by the summer villas of emperors and aristocrats attracted by Nemi's scenic beauty. A theatre adjoining the sanctuary, excavated by Morpurgo in 1928, was rebuilt early in the 1st century AD by Volusia Cornelia, the proprietor of the luxurious villa near by. The emperor Caligula (reg AD 37-41) had a sumptuous floating palace on a ship moored in the lake, one of two vessels uncovered in spectacular excavations between 1928 and 1931, during which the lake was partially drained. The ships were preserved .../hharticle?section=art.061645&hitnum=2&session_searchid=842959133&session_name=2(7/15/2003 Page 2 of 2 in a specially built museum near the lake (Nemi, Mus. Navi), but they were largely destroyed during hostilities in 1944. BIBLIOGRAPHY G. Ucelli: Le navi di Nemi (Rome, 1940) F. Poulsen: 'Nemi Studies', Acta Archaeol. [Copenhagen], xii (1941), pp. 1-52 Mysteries of Diana: The Antiquities from Nemi in Nottingham Museums (Nottingham, 1983) F. Coarelli: / santuari del Lazio in età repubblicana (Rome, 1987), pp. 165-85 T.F.C. BLAGG © Oxford University Press 2003 How to cite groveart.com /hh_article?section=art.061645&hitnum=2&session_search_id=842959133&session_name=27/15/2003 Amy Heard Letters from the Gilded Age Transcribed, Translated, and Edited by Robert M. Gray C Copyright 2005 by Robert M. Gray This document was produced using Otfried Cheong's Hyperlatex package. nov. 13, 2016 Question at UHS@ Dar mantic life Form 10/01/38 study on in Dons Memorial (file-chrone Any 1874-77), checked to reference as to Heard Papers" at Khap 2, 1581, Dec. 28,1881 gathering where 1 Mrs 2.Wadworth # / mentioned on have learched e author. On chap 3, Jone 3, 1882 lunch't Mrs fare "Then again M Jan 9th at atme now Haracc Pray was Minimated tobaccome Artor Justra if th U.S Supreme Count Pre, ( Arthur . Agen Jan 28 party, Again Feb. 24 every at th Wadsworths, Other experience not pursued in this discount (185-pp) Sleange I met in Rome an English laddy, a Mrs. Wynne Fingh with whom I fell into very pleasant relation. She was twice Q widow and her first husband had been the head of the old LaStrange family in England. Her son, Harvey LaStrange had married one of the Wardsworth family of Geneseo, New York. Her daughter had married Lawrence Oliphant, author of Piccadilly, while ehe had A younger son of near my own age, Guy LaStrange who won my admiration by the gallant fight he was making to write the history of the Caliphate. Mrs. Wynn Fingh was notable in London for her delightful little dinners of eight, nover more, to which the Prince of Wales, King Edward VIIth afterward, used not infrequently to come. She kindly asked me 88 I passed through London that spring to one of those dinners along with James Hussell Lowell, then our minister to England, and others whom I now forget but not the pleasantness of the occasion. Her son, Harvey LaStrange inherited and was living at the old family manor house and estate of Hustanton, close beside the Wash, from whose shore we could see what Hill they there called Boston Stump, the tall tower of St. Botolph's church in English Boston. Hunstanton was a very interesting old Hanor House of the Elizabethan period with a famous garden and a wide moat with drawbridge. It WRS placed in a wide, grassy park with old oak- trees scattered about, a true countryscene of the lesser nobility, such as Jane Austen might have described. The same was WRB a good deal of an antiquary in its way and had a miniment room where he kept locked up family records and memoranda going back for many generations. He showed me one of these which was quite delightful of an old lord of the manor, a very simple lord he seemed to have been, played cards with his neighbors at the village inn, his wife noting down carefully the small BUM he made or lcat, she keeping the family account. He was fond of playing the violin, which she found annoying and built him hard by a grove of old oako in the Park UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Acadia National Park Bar Harbor, Maine, May 1, 1939. Mr. Arno B. Cammerer, Director, National Park Service, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Cammerer: I have given Mr. Hadley a brief statement to enclose you in regard to Oldfarm, along with what he has written in answer to your request for figures from the Town Assessors' book and .has just mailed you. I now write a further word concerning this and on some memories the question has brought up. In 1878 we returned from Europe my father, mother and I after a stay abroad unexpectedly prolonged by my older brother's death in New York two years before in the summer of 1876, while studying law in the office of an ol- der friend, Mr. Louis L. Delafield, one of the leading law- yers of the country at that time. We had planned returning home ourselves the fall of 1876 that year and building a permanent summer home at Oldfarm on a site my father had already purchased a half dozen years before. My mother was at work over plans for this, studying some of the old English country houses, when a cable reached us, telling of my brother's sudden illness, followed immediately after by another informing us of his death. Bar Harbor, when we returned in the fall of 1878, was just recovering from the effects of a typhoid epidemic two years before, brought on by the rapid growth of the place as a resort and lack of realization by its citizens of the need or corresponding sanitary measures. It had learned its lesson, however, and steps were in progress to correct UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 2. Director 5/1/39 the evil, but the effect on summer life, when we returned, and commenced to build, still lingered; no land was being sold, no houses built. Ours at Oldfarm as the first house to be built for summer residence, spaciously and comfortably, on Mount Desert Island and the reputation of it as the work went on gave confidence to others, starting what afterwards and long referred to as the &Bar Harbor boom. The price of lands along the shore went up a hundred per cent within six weeks that summer and building continued ac- tively thereafter for years to come. The Oldfarm house was built for the first storey up of granite of a warm reddish hue from the nearby Gorge and above that was covered with shingles hewn out of Cali- fornia Redwood, their tone blending well with the granite and still remaining, after all the years, untouched by decay. We had for architect Henry Richards, one of the old Gardiner family of Gardiner, Maine, who had married the daughter of my mother's early friend, Julia Ward Howe. Henny Richards was then a recent graduate from the archi- tectural school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked in well with my mother in the plans which she had made. producing a house that has ever remained for me one of the most attractive, home-like and best-fitted to its setting built on our eastern coast. The scale of wages at that time was low, one dollar to a dollar and a quarter a ten hour day for ordinary labor; two and a half to three dollars for skilled. The work was done by the day and was sound throughout and good. My father and mother were building for the future and spent liberally upon the work. When all was done, my father told me one day that the house and the work done upon the grounds connected with it had cost seventy thousand dollars, an amount far greater than it would seem t oday.