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Showing posts with label Josiah Quincy III. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josiah Quincy III. Show all posts
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Charles Sumner to John Bigelow, of the New York Evening Post, May 22, 1850

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Only a week ago, in overhauling old pamphlets, a part of my patrimony, I found the actual memorial to Congress 1 reported by the committee ...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Diary of to Amos A. Lawrence: April 27, 1861

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The President and exPresidents of Harvard College met at Whipple's by my request, to be photographed together for the college library. ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Diary of to Amos A. Lawrence: July 19, 1860

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Inauguration of president at Cambridge. Heavy rain in morning. Went to Cambridge in the saddle; got to Boston from there at half past nine,...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Diary of Amos A. Lawrence: November 3, 1856

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The newspapers advertise Mr. Sumner's reception to take place to-day: that he will be received by a committee at my house, thence take...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Louisa Storrow Higginson, 1857

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Dearest Mother: I thought, when waiting for admission to President Quincy's study, that there was really nobody living, except the v...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley, March 8, 1862

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Boston, March 8, 1862. My Dear Motley : I have been debating with myself whether to wait for further news from Nashville, the Burnside...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Charles Eliot Norton to James Russell Lowell July 7, 1864

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ASHFIELD, July 7,1864. My Dearest James , — We are having such a pleasant quiet time that I wish you were with us. The house we are in ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

John L. Motley to Josiah Quincy III, Nov. 23, 1859

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WALTON ON THAMES (england) , Nov. 23,1859. MY DEAR SIR: — Very long after the date, — 29 January, 1859, — which you were so kind as to ...