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Book Letters of Horatio Greenough to His Brother  Henry Greenough

Download or read book Letters of Horatio Greenough to His Brother Henry Greenough written by Horatio Greenough and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of William Cullen Bryant

Download or read book The Letters of William Cullen Bryant written by William Cullen Bryant and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years covered in this volume, Bryant traveled more often and widely than at any comparable period during his life. The visits to Great Britain and Europe, a tour of the Near East and the Holy Land, and excursions in Cuba, Spain, and North Africa, as well as two trips to Illinois, he described in frequent letters to the Evening Post. Reprinted widely, and later published in two volumes, these met much critical acclaim, one notice praising the "quiet charm of these letters, written mostly from out-of-the-way places, giving charming pictures of nature and people, with the most delicate choice of words, and yet in the perfect simplicity of the true epistolary style." His absence during nearly one-fifth of this nine-year period reflected the growing prosperity of Bryant's newspaper, and his confidence in his editorial partner John Bigelow and correspondents such as William S. Thayer, as well as in the financial acumen of his business partner Isaac Henderson. These were crucial years in domestic politics, however, and Bryant's guidance of Evening Post policies was evident in editorials treating major issues such as the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, the rise of the Republican Party, and the Dred Scott Decision, as well as in his correspondence with such statesmen as Salmon P. Chase, Hamilton Fish, William L. Marcy, Edwin D. Morgan, and Charles Sumner. His travel letters and journalistic writings reflected as well his acute interest in a Europe in turmoil. In France and Germany he saw the struggles between revolution and repression; in Spain he talked with journalists, parliamentary leaders, and the future president of the first Spanish republic; in New York he greeted Louis Kossuth and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Bryant's close association with the arts continued. He sat for portraits to a dozen painters, among them Henry P. Gray, Daniel Huntington, Asher Durand, Charles L. Elliott, and Samuel Laurence. The landscapists continued to be inspired by his poetic themes. Sculptor Horatio Greenough asked of Bryant a critical reading of his pioneering essays on functionalism. His old friend, the tragedian Edwin Forrest, sought his mediation in what would become the most sensational divorce case of the century, with Bryant and his family as witnesses. His long advocacy of a great central park in New York was consummated by the legislature. And in 1852, his eulogy on the life of James Fenimore Cooper became the first of several such orations which would establish him as the memorialist of his literary contemporaries in New York.

Book The Letters of William Cullen Bryant  1836 1849

Download or read book The Letters of William Cullen Bryant 1836 1849 written by William Cullen Bryant and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought the paper close to its greatest financial prosperity and to national political and cultural influence.Bryant's letters lf the years between show the versatility of his concern with the crucial political, social, artistic, and literary movements of his time, and the varied friendships he enjoyed despite his preoccupation with a controversial daily paper, and with the sustenance of a poetic reputation yet unequaled among Americans. As president of the New York Homeopathic Society, in letters and editorials urging widespread public parks, and in his presidency of the New York Society for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death, he gave attention to public health, recreation, and order. He urged the rights of labor, foreign and religious minorities, and free African Americans; his most powerful political effort of the period was in opposition to the spread of slavery through the conquest of Mexico. An early commitment to free trade in material goods was maintained in letters and editorials, and to that in ideas by his presidency of the American Copyright Club and his support of the efforts of Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau to secure from the United States Congress and international copyright agreement.Included here are letters to prominent Americans, many of them his close friends, such as the two Danas, Bancroft, Cole, Cooper, Dewey, Dix, Downing, Durand, Forrest, Greenough, Irving, Longfellow, Simms, Tilden, Van Buren, and Weir. His letters to the Evening Post recounting his observations and experiences during travels abroad and in the South, West, and Northeast of the United States, which were copied widely in other newspapers and praised highly by many of their subscribers, are here made available to the present-day reader.

Book The Life of Margaret Fuller

Download or read book The Life of Margaret Fuller written by Madeleine B. Stern and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1968 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book James Fenimore Cooper

Download or read book James Fenimore Cooper written by Wayne Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: From Manhattan to Paris -- TWO: London and the Alps -- THREE: Italian Skies -- FOUR: Imaginary Politics -- FIVE: Republican Principles -- SIX: Rough Homecoming -- SEVEN: Public Versus Private -- EIGHT: Libels on Libels -- NINE: A Legacy Reclaimed -- TEN: Piecework and Patchwork -- ELEVEN: At Sea -- TWELVE: Coming on Shore -- THIRTEEN: Florida and the Pacific -- FOURTEEN: Speculations -- FIFTEEN: Last Words -- SIXTEEN: Endings -- APPENDIX: Cooper's Libel Suits -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations

Book The Bookmart

Download or read book The Bookmart written by Halkett Lord and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The White Mountains  a Handbook for Travellers

Download or read book The White Mountains a Handbook for Travellers written by Moses Foster Sweetser and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore  Including the Additions Made Since 1882

Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Chat

Download or read book Book Chat written by William George Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nation

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  • Release : 1887
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  • Pages : 680 pages

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Release : 1886
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  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)

Book Among Our Books

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  • Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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  • Release : 1909
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  • Pages : 860 pages

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: