New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-20

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w ase ma nsRed IN 1865 We spent quiet pSssS
ant afternoon tSgets,eI tom a Of original manuscripts
inter- iuoldcs our Mutual Fend' by DG msny
atSss precious wns Finally surprised o him S'n
SIimpse OF his own poem lie had hau TOT TIN him
ana a. Il In few days with the following e1pian,
story note part of this poem ss sS az an intro
sncton 10 the NOOnng,' projected volume OF make
~ verse by changes and additions tSa 10 n nr
salfsubsient poem out OF maSiI rsw are So inter
gEevsn that cannot now after an inteVai Oh '"e"''
years distinguish between them" IN Ros,on one
About twenty five years age was ID DoN'T Ia,,ny
ssy in q bookstore wrctchcd DAY. rlnS IItt,c
and muddy-when saw the striInS rnGtsIoons red
up dashlng along tho stlest lie lOohcu as as hnoh
IKE poet as man could. turner 10 t.g IT, oG0 T
Oliver Wendell Holmes he said. Well W Ssg We 20
know that man, and got 70 even agos since. mo
genial genuine delightful man. and nnSr 'ncrat
satonalist never knew Go copy cn Of me contains an
Letter giving me his reasons for beginning
the papers IN Tho Atlantic Monthly WHICH
nc ssHS SPEAK ne thousand faces pass before me None
more CeHiie and kind than that of Emerson ne
visited me with his daughter; tranquil io'
&S Icsrop Motley PGs Ssm 1@9 S @Ssy
Bancroft were valued onrSt no history Of our great
civil war should nc written under nfy ynat t me lie
hal the las. Photograph Of a a'f sha nevcr s again
VT ~ nVrprc unless II Is taken nom the back
t5F g.od Rancroft am ain enabled 70 honor as
one ~ nv oldest and most precious i'Ienus ,,o ,,
with the novelist C. 7. X Jalnes nr,sh CoGpsni NJ
tmao While he held the pos s, ne M 70 phIIaeipha
~ m @ md he told mo that he dictates all ms
70 - nc re- en- there were T. buchanan Reaa' VINO
poGhs ioDgfeiIow's portrait for me- ana was pres
ent al ine IErrene fisleck, Jared sparks, William
Sr1nrs, Si-nrns William Cullen Btyant F. A. FREQ
0iim"Te St Brvcc Henry c. Carey, Paul b. Du
man. man,, T Spo,cSt me The wood from Africa for the
Ihaiilu , t nov I'm my li0gaTy) Thomas Hughes:
s ey,, Miner wilkie Colllns--a whole troop OF
n hovs all forget to note one OF my earliest ana
mo o, intimate friends, the elder james Goon ben
Inost nv un Was quiet unObtTisvc, forcible man.
M Me.r no told me- he had his Office few doors
tbn nroosses-EraStus and James, of Tho Even
pg niRxpress'-and yet had never met them We often
a.. nrssctical ChldST he once said. how nm.
tortunafe II is for boy TO have rich nus II
,,on and ] had been horn that way, Slaps We
Swouhfn,t have amounted 70 much" =,
have been on friendly terms With men OF al
n.r,ies and cieeds. | accompanied Thomas H. Ben
ION 10 Boston when ne delivered his great Grafton there
Stating aside General Winfield scott (who sent me an
ssry copy Of his book Of which he had estimated me
number Of hundreds OF thousands OF people In the
United states who would purchase coplesl Benton was
beyond comparison the most kindly ana agreeaoV
eepustical man ever met -
Thurlow Weed an extraordinary man IN many WsVs'
knew VERY well, He once gave me STRIKING nus,
OF the great variety and curious character OF
his wonderful stock Of information lie toll me theIe
was an old Roman well on snch ana such q SPOT
down on the Strand, in London. went 10 john
Murray while in London and asked him about " as
MurFay'g guide-h0ok made no mention OF inc ltct'
MURRAY was in utter ignorance of the we'll but IL was
really there where ThurlOw Weed had said It was.