Word: cranch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Longfellow's birthday evening, February 27th, the proceeds of which will be added to the fund. The movement is wholly independent of the Memorial Association, but has, of course, its warmest wishes for success. It is expected that the following authors will take part. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Edward Everett Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arlo Bates, George Parsons Lathrop and Louise Chandler Moulton. Tickets will be for sale in Cambridge and Boston, Feb. 9th and 10th...
...Cranch, known to many graduates if not to many present members of the college, has discovered an old New England ballad, entitled, "The Mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott," and published it in artistic pamphlet form. The tale is in truth most mournful, being an account of the ill-fated Isaac, and telling...
...portion of the upper tree falls on his head with such extraordinary force as to compel his senses to take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground...
...mournful tale is enhanced by some of the most extraordinary drawings, from the pencil of Mr. Cranch, that we have ever seen, and the whole makes an amusing pleasure book well worth perusal...
...mournful Ballad of Isaac Abbott: E. P. Cranch. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati...