The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-26
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Craigie house estate next to the home
stead, and next to the Danas live Mr. and
Mrs. j. G. Thorp, ir. Mrs. Thorp was
Annie Longfellow, the youngest of the
poet children, and many think the most
{ interesting. She married after her faith
er's death, and her husband was ia brother
OF the widow of the famous Norwegian
violinist, Ole Bull.
The Thorps have three children, all
girls, the eldest of whom is named Alice
Tor Miss Longfellow, between whom and
Mrs. Thorp an affection even more than
slsterly existed. Together they studied at
the English universities, and their inter
ests seem as closely united today as they
ever were. The second OF the Thorp chill
dren is called Amy, Although she was
! named Amelia, and the baby has Scan
dlnavlan name, Erica.
1t IS rather touching to see these three
daughters, whose pictures as children
Buchanan Read painted, and whose faces
were at that time familiar by the means Of
many copies that were made, and the sight
OF whom called tears to many eyes in the
! days when their mothers loss was a fresh
grief, still living, though two are married
ana have families of their own, all on the
/ ground which is sacred because their
father loved it.
! One realizes how fast Longfellow's gen
Grafton is passing when one notes how
few of the men who were daily associated
with him are living. The Wayside Inn
/ still stands at Sudbury. The tavern has
| Just passed out Of the hands of the Howes.
who kept it for four generations. The
new owner will preserve it as a Ionefellow
relic. Its old-fashioned hospitality has
passed away with the generation that
knew how to dispense it, but the way
farer can still see the house and sit in the
room where the famous group of story
tellers were supposed to have narrated
the tales that bear the name of the old
Howe tavern. During the year Just passed
the last OF the personages that figured in
those tales, Thomas William Parsons. has
passed over to the great majority. He was
the poet whose verse
Was tender, musical and terse:
The inspiration the delight.
The CLEAN, the glory. the swift fight
tf thoughts so sudden that they seem
The revelation Of a dream.
OF the intimate friends who stood about
his coffin eleven years ago, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Charles Eliot Norton
alone are living. The former has really
lived to be the Last leaf on the tree, -
and the latter does not exactly belong to
the Longfellow generation.
In 1875 Bowdoin college celebrated the
semi centennial of Longfellow's gradua-
ton, and there were then living thirteen
OF the class, oil whom twelve were present.
the absentee being William Hale of Dover.
N H., who oddly enough is still living
one OF the three survivors of the class:
the other two being Hon. James Brad
bury, L. J.. D., and Commodore Horatio
Bridge. The last death that occurred
In the little band was that of joseph ].
Eveleth, who died in August, 1891.
Indeed, so many of Longfellow's con-
temporarIes and even those to whom he
reached forward in his last davs. have
passed away that ne is visibly vanishing
IN the realms where only memory speaks.
Every one remembers his love for the
acting of Adelaide Nelson, and how dur
ing that last engagement at the Globe
theatre he used to delight in her per
formances and in her. She died before he
did, but during the past few months an
actress has died, who in his earlier DAYS
delighted him even more-Fanny KEN
bic, to whom on hearing her read Shake
speare he wrote sonnet ending:
Oh. happy poet. by no critic vext,
bow must thy listening spirit now rejoice
To be interpreted by such voice.
Few people ever go to Cambridge with
out seeing the Longfellow house. Nearly
every one once knew how he happened to
GO there to live, but az the generation of
today may have forgotten 1t, there is no
harm in mentioning it. 1t was in 1896
the house which had been built by Henry