Dorriniting alost 1886 1885 1884 Song field surveyed Have the rose garden lot as laid out in my intention to take in my mother's old flower garden, from which as us back a beginning the Park developed. This takes thick to the c.1885 middle expiry 1880's when the garden was fo rme d. The road to the shore lot above Storm Beach has its own entrance from The Way Road and the rose garden, as intended, will be entirely screened from it by the ridge of rock on the east, with the will brook on the west beyond. This road which bound the lot upon the east and south and it will be bounded on the west with the path through to and beyond The Way from Oldfarm, being open at some point to the- entrance from the path from Oldfarm, which it nowhere will A plan should be drawn by Breeze and Sherman for the development of the parking ground where the tennis sourt now is, the soil being carefully carefully preserved for use elsewhere in the garden. The entrance to the rose garden will be byond the cedar he dge to the southeast and the opening through the hedge be allowed to close. The whole needs to be drawn out in detail and studied. Restrictions against building or di sfigurement or other use than flowering plant exhibition should be placed upon that portion of the nursery land above The Way road to the south, as far as KKII to the first crossroad from which northward the direction of the watering pipe THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF JOSTAH ROYCE ohn Clendenning Varderbilt U.P., 1999. he was "clever," "charming," and affable. We do not believe it for a moment. I caused her guests to change places in the middle of the meal, called all women 144 doubt whether Mr. Royce, were he a painter, could have painted Tom's portrait. by their first names and all men by their last names." From her seat at the head 145 Indeed, Mr. Royce never quite succeeds in giving us a complete picture The of a long dinner table, Mrs. Dorr would call out in a low-pitched but authorita- newest thing in the book, perhaps, is the great part that very slight misunder- tive "growl": "Edith Everett, you have talked long enough to Lowell. Let him standings play in it: and for that, although Mr. Royce has not made as much of it come up and tell me about his experiences in England. Royce! tell me your story as he might have, we can not commend him too highly. about the snake-eaters." Chapman added that someone once said "that if the Virgin Mary should come to Boston, Molly Dorr would drop in at the Bell Though other reviewers praised the Feud highly-the Nation found it "ster- household and say 'Helen, dine with me tomorrow. Mary'll be there!'" ling"-sales were weak. After two years, fewer than one thousand copies had In their own home the Royces gave musicales at which their friend the been sold, and the book soon disappeared from the American literary horizon, composer Charles Loeffler sometimes performed. Privately their household thus ending Royce's brief career as a novelist. As George Santayana later was temporarily increased by the arrival from California of Josiah's niece, remembered, he bore his failure in "silent disappointment." Eleanor Ingraham, Mary's teenage daughter, who had lived with the Royces in Berkeley and now joined them in Cambridge while attending high school. The eldest of seven surviving children in a poor working-class family, Ellie was wel- The Devil in the Brain comed as "a tall young niece," according to Katharine, "with a 'booful' great forehead and eyes." The academic year 1885-86 had brought Royce a degree of permanence. But it was Christopher, now three years old, who became the focus of the On April 8, 1885, he received President Eliot's appointment to an assistant pro- parents' doting attention. He was a "jolly fat boy," who could "laugh very heartily fessorship for a term of five years at a salary of two thousand dollars. "My next and behave very wickedly." As Katharine remarked, "My little big boy grows in academic year," he told Scudder, "the first that sees me in a permanent position, strength, beauty and brightness, also in stubborness." "The latter I can stand," will be an especially exacting one, since I shall have to work out courses that she added, "since he has not inherited any ugly temper." Writing to her mother- will take a definite and settled place in the curriculum." During that year Royce in-law, she noted, "The child inherits all of your & Josiah's persistence, & has taught two courses in the philosophy department: elementary philosophy, using not as yet always the wit to turn it in the right direction." Josiah agreed that The Religious Aspect of Philosophy as a text, and the philosophy of nature-a Christopher had "nothing unearthly about him." "His mind is still as free as a discussion of Spinoza, monism, and Spencer's theory of evolution. In addition, bird's." Coco was particularly attached to his mother, whom he called "Kitty he was still assigned to forensics and oral discussion. Kitty mum mum" and "you little Pussy thing." "You would be amused," she told As if to celebrate his promotion Royce rented a more comfortable house at Milicent Shinn, "to see how the little creature worships me." 20 Lowell Street, in a quiet and cheerful neighborhood off Brattle, a few steps This devotion brought out Christopher's talent for music, which was evident from the Charles River. Despite financial constrictions, Josiah and Katharine before his second birthday, though at the same age he was somewhat slow to grew increasingly content with their lives. The lively social world of Boston and develop speech. Before he could play he sat beside his mother at the piano, Cambridge offered them many entertainments, particularly music, which was turning the pages at the right places. If she made a bad mistake in one of his always their favorite recreation. Kitty took piano lessons and they bought tick- favorite pieces, he would scold "with a long mournful Oh-h-h-h." Like his ets to concerts whenever their budget allowed. They also acquired a circle of father, Christopher grew up with few playmates. He spent much of his time friends in the Harvard community, and occasionally the great mansions of the playing horsecar conductor alone, but his mother's music became "the most Brahmins were open to them. interesting of all games." Even as a toddler, Christopher was endowed with Josiah's reputation as a conversationalist soon made him a darling of the remarkable imagination and sensitivity. "I must tell you," Katharine wrote to her Bostonian grandes dames at whose soirées he regularly performed. Chief among mother, "how little Coco behaved yesterday over some music that he specially these ladies was Mrs. Charles Dorr, the mother of George Dorr whom Royce liked." As she was playing "a very fascinating" mazurka by Chopin, Katharine had met in 1875. Molly, as Mrs. Dorr was known to her friends, is well described came to a "bewitching, pathetic air way down in the bass notes," and when she by Jack Chapman. "She lived," he said, "in the heart-secrets of others. She had was finished, there stood Christopher "with tears running down his cheeks, but been a friend of Emerson and Margaret Fuller. She gave large dinners and smiling like an angel." "I like that part to go in there," he said, "I like it very 18 my capacity of a newspaper Cerberus have regularly barked at art, liter- ature and music. Besides my journalistic work, which has averaged six Memorial Building columns a week, have written a few translations from German and Rus- G. Hodges of '74, sian, contributed several articles to the American reprint of the Ency- partnership contin clopredia B Britannica, and begun a History of Constantinople.' Am also T. L. Scovill, of slowly preparing to publish a small volume of songs and translations. business remainin My only public work since graduation has been to deliver at Hingham, still continues, wit Mass., and at St. John, N.B., a lecture against Spiritism, and a course member of the C of talks about English literature while at Derby Academy. June 28, & Mining Exchan 1882, was married in Boston to Helen James Bennett ;" has a son not yet Rochester, N.Y. named, born June 13. 1884. Resides at 1934 Locust Street, Philadelphia. JOHN WOODFO Office of The Press" is corner Seventh and Chestnut Streets in that city. Continues to i GEORGE BUCKNAM DORR. residence, 234 Cl Has continued to spend most of the time in Europe. where he now is ; Women at 18 Sc has not been in active business. Resides at 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Dispensary : is a Boston, Mass. (No report since graduation.) Is married and b John, born Sept. JAMES DWIGHT. On account of ill-health. has never practised medicine to any great JACOB HAMIL extent; has been actively interested in tennis, and after winning several Writes as follc matches in this country went to Europe last fall, and has since played Signal Company with the champion players in England and Ireland; is expected to return company and co home in August. Resides at 76 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. (No Union Switch & report since 1880.) be a decided imp voted myself to LOUIS, DYER. often expensive During the year 1880-1, continued as Tutor in Greek in Cambridge and I soon found since Sept. 1, 1881, has been Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin at which to engage the College for five years, which appointment was confirmed by the Board I could continue of Overseers June 1, 1881. Resides at 104 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge. estate brokerag WILLIAM SAMUEL ELIOT. such as I have Died in Boston, Mase., Nov. 15, 1874. in 3 Major Blo See Secretary's Report No. 2 (1877), pp. 17, 18. completed and tion and drawi JOHN WHEELOCK ELLIOT. on a through p Has continued to practise medicine in Boston, now having his office now in some at his residence, 75 Marlboro' Street; has made a specialty of Gyne- sewer, water-II cology, or diseases of women. May 8, 1883, was married in Boston to (Drawing set 1 Mary Lee Morse. such an invent FRANK WORCESTER ELWOOD. ber of. the clas Writes as follows: "Practised law in Rochester, N.Y., until Sept. FRANCIS C 1881, when I opened a banking and stock-brokerage office in the Elwood Is still ref Chebacco XIV (2013): 7-18 The Bar Harbor Express train. Courtesy of Raymond Strout The Bar Harbor Express: A Most Elegant Travel Option Brook Ewing Minner The only thing more intriguing than the story of the Bar Harbor Express train is the fact that its history has nearly disappeared. Although If Bar Harbor Express transported passengers to Mount Desert Ferry in Hancock from 1885 until the mid-1930s, and to Ellsworth and Bangor 1960, Lois Johnson of the Hancock Historical Society tells me that growing up in Hancock, she never knew anything about the train until side began to volunteer at the historical society. A recent walk down Ferry Road to Grant's Hill in Hancock shows almost no sign of the bustling main station and hotel that defined Mount Desert Ferry at the turn of the cwentieth century. If one looks closely, a remnant of a pier can be seen. Otherwise, it is a quiet and beautiful point on the coast of Maine, now occupied by a marine service business. Travel on the Bar Harbor Express mirrored the elegance found in the grand cottages on Mount Desert Island built during the Gilded Age. Due to the wealth and stature of those spending their summers on Mount Desert Island, the Bar Harbor Express became a premier example of train travel during the late 1800s. It was not uncommon for families such as be Vanderbilts, the Pulitzers, and the Morgans to ride the train to reach commenced 1885 1886 The Correspondence of William James: page 154 Vollo. August 1886 Ed. I. Strupskelis August 1886 155 and E.M.Berkeley. To Alice Howe Gibbens James u. of Virgin is Press, 1998 To Alice James Ashburner's stoop I 6.35 P.M. Aug 5. [1886] Cambridge, Aug. 8. 86 Dearest One, Dearest Alice, Arriving I find Theo. sitting here who tells me the hour is 7- A short pencil-scrawl from you and a letter to Aunt Kate from T'was Royce's to morrow which was 1/2 past six-so while she scuds Katherine L. are all we have heard since your move to Leamington. up stairs to dress, I seize her pen & blotter, & add a word to my card. And sorry enough news it is to hear that the short journey should Time flies SO that I can't get anything in edgways. Have vainly have thrown you back as much as it has done. I have sometimes hoped to get to the Square to day, and am almost starved in conse- held back from writing to you lest it should seem too frequent a quence. Your letter came, punctual as the sunrise, at 5 P.M., and with challenge to you to reply. But pray never think of a letter in that it Frisbies price, of 6000 for 75 acres including farm on other side of light, we will write as we will and you as you can, and the two need road, & 2000 for end of point, but less land on latter than I wish. ¹ have naught to do wi' each other. I haven't answered yet, nor shall I do anything but refuse until we've Our vacation has, SO far, been an exceptionally blissful one. I been down East. haven't felt as solid and normal in many a long year as 5 weeks in Yesterday P.M. I visited the Ashburner-King-Mussey place on M. the country have made me. The children and Alice, too, are per- Auburn St opposite Elmwood Ave. which has been got by a Bank for fectly well and happy on the farm, where the rooms, are large, the a $13,000 mortgage with upwards of 3 acres!2 I tho't It might possi- table first rate, the people angels, the country round-about as pretty bly do for two families-but it won't! It educates my taste to nibble as eye could wish, the nerve-repose most positive, and the price of at all these things, but I shall talk no more about 'em. board, including that of our servant only 22 dollars a week. I've Then to the Gurney's a delightful 1/2 hour with Ellen-such a letter been home a week by myself doing some writing, but yester morn from Japan from Henry Adams3-Gurney satisfactorily well. Alice came on and in 36 hours more we start to M. Desert for a weeks Then to Vercelli's where I took the only cash dinner of my week, visit to Mrs. Dorr, who has got back from 5 years in Europe, brown & and then went to Charles Putnam's with Billy's leg irons. Saw C. & thin and, SO far as yet appears, having renounced many of her undig- Lizzie at tea, and adjourned to Jim's,4 whose house is really exception- nified peculiarities. I thought it would give Alice a good chance to ally prettily decked and furnished with cool, spare, old things in admi- see the place, and I am always itching to find a country patch to buy rable style & taste. Then home-read myself asleep with Tristram cheap and squat upon, SO I shall ramble about the unfashionable S.,5 slept well, and have rather overworked to day-the first day since edges of the Island and poke into "points" &c. The earth-hunger my return. grows on us very much. It gives a zest to one's travels to look, even God bless you! Angel bride. Especially kiss Harry and Silly Billy if one never buys, and I imagine that's the way it will end with us, for me! for I can't help at the bottom of my heart believing that freedom to W.J. travel is the best thing one can keep one's money for. Meanwhile ALS: MH bms Am 1092.9 (1444) "boarding" is cheap, and pleasant if one can find such a farm as ours; 1 See letter of 8 July 1886, note 1. and Cambridge is on the whole SO scrubby and level a place that one 2 Henry W. Muzzey, a lawyer living on Coolidge Ave. near Mt. Auburn and Elm- need never repine at not being identified with the ground. The chil- wood Ave., died on 26 March 1886. The house had previously been occupied by Mrs. Charlotte C. King. No Ashburners who had lived at that address were found. dren are left at present in care of the Salters' on the farm.-I saw an 3 Following the suicide of his wife, Marian (Clover) Hooper Adams, Henry Adams exquisite point of land off Portsmouth Harbor, with every advantage, spent the summer of 1886 traveling in Japan. near some land which Jo Warner has bought, but it is held too high.2 WJ is referring to Elizabeth Cabot Putnam and James Jackson Putnam. I hear that D. Bartol has been buying large tracts on the South 5 Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British clergyman and author, The Life and Opinions Shore. - Mrs. Gibbens and Margaret are coming home in the Fall. of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-67). They have had a very successful time, but she can't stand another winter, and they will try to settle here for good. Their old house August 1886 August 1886 157 suits us very well and we shall not move unless forced. I have no 5 Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (1886). page 20F2 Cambridge news whatever to tell you-I don't believe that any exists. 6 An older name for Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. We are going to take tea to night with Child who is at home taking care of his ballads, his roses, and Mrs. Channing, his invariable vaca- tion pursuits, much the worse for wear & tear and close application, To Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward but quite incapable of getting, or if he could get, of taking a holiday. Fortunately Mrs C. seems to be on her last legs, quite demented and Cambridge Mass I Aug 24. 86 failing in body fast. She gone, it seems as if the Corporation ought My dear Miss Phelps, in some way to furnish him with a holiday year without cutting down 17 only got your note last night, on my return from Mount Desert. his pay. The Ashburner's are unchanged save that miss Anne is deaf am not sure that our circular of inquiry about mediums brought and more strenuous than ever, Miss Grace like a cricket. Grace Nor- even as many as ten letters of advice-not one was from a medium ton keeps open house and I've spent a couple of pleasant evenings himself. ¹ I believe the only way to "investigate" is to go in as a pri- there, hearing a long letter from Harry, among other things. She vate individual, to satisfy one's self.. It is hopeless to seek "harmony" showed me the Vanity Fair caricature of D: Holmes, which you ought in the present stage of things. The spiritualist devotees form a solid to get if you haven't seen it. I think its the most perfect half portrait army to protect, encourage and propagate every conceivable species half caricature I ever saw in my life.4 of fraud. I imagine one can do very little with their help, and that You see I haven't many objective matters to write about. Subjec- it is just about useless to try, as you say, to "hit their self-respect." tively my main problem is to get through my psychology which lags Their minds are a sort of pap. wofully on account of the fact that whenever I get writing a few hours, Bundy-with his Religio-Philosophical Journal-is fighting a bang goes my sleep & I have to stop a fortnight. But I have great manly fight. His side will possibly conquer, though I don't feel too hopes of next winter. I shan't touch a medium and probably not a sanguine. Of course you may mention the smallness of the response mesmeric subject, with the end of a long pole. Psychical Research to our circular, but please quote none of my above growlings. took up a long time last year.- have just read Charles Kingsley's Faithfully yours Wm. James ALS: Private biography with great delight and recommend it to you. Alice began to read aloud Stevenson's "Kidnapped" yestreen, and I ache for the The circular requesting information on mediumistic phenomena appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser, 9 April 1885, and is reprinted in EPR. hour to go at it again.5 That man is a magician! Have you read Howells's Indian Summer? My dear Child, I don't say anything about you-but I feel, all the To George Croom Robertson same. Would I might do something for you. & Mary are back at Concord where Ned has no asthma. He had it badly at Lake Jaffrey N.H. Aug 29. 86 Winnepiseogee.6 The "silly Billy" lines were an invaluable docu- My dear Robertson, ment. The Punch's come reglar. Months have passed since my last brief writing to you, and I hardly Gurney, tho' still very weak, is improving & they have good hope. know where to begin. My principal interest in you is to know how They are still here. you are in these days, and I get no tidings on that point from anybody. AL: MH bms Am 1092.9 (1135) Correspondence perforce grows rarer as separation prolongs itself 1 The reference is to the Lawrence farm, Jaffrey, N.H. and as correspondents grow older, and my english friends seem to 2 See letter of 8 July 1886, note 1. become more august and remote figures as the years elapse since my 3 Perhaps Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1813-1900), Unitarian clergyman, extensively in- volved in the purchase and sale of land. seeing them in the flesh. How are you, anyhow? Just tell me on a 4 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., was caricatured as a "whimsical elf" in Vanity Fair, 19 post-card, if you can do SO consistentently with modesty & truth, that June 1886. For the drawing see Roy T. Matthews and Peter Mellini, In "Vanity Fair" you are better, much better than of yore! The Hobbes was a good (London: Scolar Press, 1982), 193. sign.1 After leaving it a long while, to do more ephemeral duties