Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-05-16
Skettbes from Iiff,
WIN. RODERICK LAWRENCE.

we are always pleaScu 10 PUBLISH any"
thing in regard to our contributors that
is likely to prove generally interesting to
our readers, and have no doubt but the
following comments on one8of New Eng
lands sweetest poets viii be read with a
deal Of interest. We copy it from the
Dexter, Maine, Gem and Gazette, in which
print it appeared under the name of Luz
Their G.. Riggs-the associate editor.
"The Painter-P Poet of New England was
born in New York City, and is descend.
ant, on his fathers side, from French
Huguenot named Beauchamp; ancestor
of Gov. Seymour, U. S. Minister to Rus
STA, the late Charles Sigourney, Esq, etc.
Although Mr.. Lawrence does not pride
himself Of birth, it may not come amiss
for us to quote few paragraphs from the
Catalogue Of the first Puritan settlers of
Connecticut: which embraces the geneal-
ogy and family history of Mr.. L. John
Lawrence was appointed Treasurer Of the
Colony of Connecticut and held the Office
many years after it became State,-in
all for period of more than twenty years.
He faithfully performed the important
duties entrusted to him, and Roger Sher-
man, VIM. Williams, John Hancock, Gov.
Trumbull, and many other distinguished
men of that period were his sincere and
attached friends
T" Alice Ripley, Mr.. LIS grandmother, !
who married William Lawrence of Hart
ford, was born in Canterbury, Conn. Her
maiden name was Adams, and when
young. she was engaged to be married to
Captain Nathan Hale, who fell martyr
in the service Of his country. Her mother
married Hales father. There is still
preserved in the collection of William
Roderick Lawrence, of Hartford, a fine
large powder-horn, made by Capt. Hale
during his college vacation at Yale. Miss
Alice Adams, who was at that time a
member of the family, often saw him bust
ly occupied in the construction of this
valuable relic"
Personally, Mr.. Lawrence is fine look
ing,-his height is about FIVE feet eight
inches-is rather stout-standsv very erect,
is of clear complexion-ha black hair,
hazel eyes, whiskers, usually wearing
moustaches,-is somewhat nervous in his
temperament-yery active-polite and
agreeable in his manners, and quite con-
versatile and fluent in speech. As lite
rateur and Painter, he has but few sue
cessful rivals, though he has attracted the
attention Of the public but few years.
His literary productions are such as com
mand the attention of some of the most
noted authors, and among his personal
friends and correspondents are n P. Will
lis, Washington Irving, Bayard Taylor,
Rev. John Pierpont, Rev. Elezer Will
liams, Geo. P. Morris, Mrs. L. Ell. Sigour-
ney, Mrs. Anna S. Stephens, Mrs. E..
Cakes Smith, Lottie Linwood," &c.
Mr.. L..is, as most Of our readers are
aware, associate editor of the Waverley
Magazine regular contributor to the
Knickerbocker, Graham's, Godey's, Ma
tional, Petersons, and the Ladies' Chris
tan Annual as also to the N. Y. Home
Journal, Ballou's Pictorial, Chicago Lite
rary Budget, &C., and holds several highly
reputable Offices among them, the Secre-
taryship Of the Conn. Society of Natural
History, Curator of Etymology to the
same, President of the Committee of Fine
Arts and Arts of the Hartford Co. Agri-
cultural Society, Honorary Secretary of
the Cosmopolitan Art and Literary As
ISOLATION. -
Mr.. Lawrence, we are told, has painted
and drawn ever since he was FIVE years
old has attended medical lectures and
studied medicine, but prefers letters and
the arts to its practice. He has, in his
studio, large collections Of Autographs,
Coins, Insects Minerals, Shells, Bones,
Skulls, &c. 81 SMR
Mr.. Lawrence does much in the line of
Illustrating Books. Prof. I. Breckelsby,
of Trinity College, wrote a work called
I" Wonders of the Microscopic-world, /"
which Mr.. L. illustrated, -he also drew
several designs in Hastings Microscopic
Anatomy" reprinted from the English
edition by d. Vanarsdale. 1t is the most
complete work Of the kind ever published,
as well as the highest authority the medi-
cal faculty have in this country,-is pub
lished in two volumes, plates printed in
colors.
Among his poems, are many fine things,
the following perhaps are as good as any
!" Bessie Gray published by Oliver Dit
son. Boston Give me Loving Heart .
" Lines to Mummy" To Butterfly"
" Isidore, ~" The Eolian Harp" To Lot
tie Linwood," and the one we here ap.
pend-all Of which. have been extensively
copied.
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