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...Friday afternoon in November of 1849 Dr. George Parkman, a widely known philanthropist and instructor at the Medical School, disappeared. A man known for his punctuality and methodically businesslike habits, he had been missed he did not come home for lunch. His son-in-law, Robert Gould Shaw, a leading merchant, offered a $3000 reward for his safe return and on Saturday afternoon had placed advertisements in all the papers and had circulated 8,000 handbills...
...publicity brought in floods of replies. One said that Parkman had been "beguiled Cambridge and done in," while another had him, head covered with blood, driven at breakneck speed" across Craigie's Bridge in Cambridge. One of the more plausible reports was that of a servant in Parkman's household. He recalled that the Doctor had had a call earlier on Friday, who reminded him of a 1:30 appointment on that day. The speaker not be identified...
Levin's doctoral thesis analysed the histories of the 19th century masters, George Bancroft, William Prescott, John Motley, and Francis Parkman, all of whom were contemporary to one another, and all of whom where Harvard graduates, members of Boston's Brahmin caste, and writers of superb narrative gifts. Out of this thesis came Levin's first book, History as Romantic...
Levin's work became the first full-scale treatment of these eminent American historians as men of letters. His analysis demonstrated the importance in their histories of the same major conventions and preconceptions so evident in the romantic literature of the period. Parkman's portrayal of the morose French explore LaSalle, Levin maintained, derives from the romantic convention of the Byronic hero just as much as say, Herman Melville's delineation of Captain Ahab...
Perkins' talk came at the end of "Freedom March" down Columbus Ave., from Carter Playground in Roxbury to Parkman Bandstand on the Common...