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There’s no mention of condoms in the loving correspondence between Abbot and Katie, which composes the bulk of the book. Constantly separated, the couple wrote hundreds of gushy love letters, which Sulllivan describes as “shrouded in allegory and metaphor...
...Abbot would become a philosopher and minister after moving beyond Ivy walls. But after the deaths of five of his eight children and his beloved Katie, Abbot penned his final entry on Oct. 22nd, 1903—a suicide note. Two days later, Abbot imbibed poison over his wife’s grave, exactly 10 years after she had died...
Brian A. Sullivan claims that the Yard of yore isn’t so very different from Harvard today. And he’s right. The musing pontifications and perspicacious reflections of Francis Ellingwood Abbot make him the pundit du jour, relevant in his time and in our own. Word...
...Abbot on relationships: “If we had only kisses for each other, they would pall after a while; that is why so many couples tire of each other after the honeymoon...
...Abbot on his course of study and its future: “Then I feel as if I were a fool to incur such a debt and undergo so much anxiety of mind just to become a rhymester and second-rate poet. I get disheartened and feel tempted to give up the scheme of education; to enter some active business, and throw all my literary tastes to the dogs...