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...have done me. I have had the extreme honor to have been admitted to the acquaintanceship of some of your most distinguished men, Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Holmes. In my own country I have had even the greater honor of receiving under my roof such men as Prescott, Hawthorne, and Motley. And when I consider that through your grace I have been domiciled, so to speak, within the precincts of that sacred University whence they derived their inspiration, and where, during a youth of high endeavor and unceasing industry and self-sacrifice, they laid sure and deep the foundations...
...Defence, State Trials. Pinney: The Diver, Schiller. F. W. Taylor: My Duty as a Statesman, Lamar. H. O. Taylor: The Last Ride Together, Browning. Tufts: Soliloquy of Hamlet, Shakespeare. Vinton: Joan of Arc, De Quincey. Hunt: The Society upon the Stanislaus, Bret Harte. Wheeler: On the Impeachment of Judge Prescott, Webster...
Thus we are told that Hollis has been occupied by such distinguished men as Everett, Prescott, Emerson, C. F. Adams, Wendell Phillips, Thoreau, and B. R. Curtis...
...Peabody, whose contributions amount to seventy-seven. Those who have contributed more than fifty articles are Presidents Felton and Sparks, A. H. Everett, and W. B. O. Peabody. Caleb Cushing, William Tudor, and J. G. Palfrey stand among the thirties; and Professors Norton and Lowell, and W. H. Prescott, among the twenties. Of the members of the present Faculty, H. W. Torrey has seven; John Fiske and Asa Gray, six each; A. S. Hill and C. F. Dunbar five each; H. C. Lodge and F. H. Hedge two each; and J. B. Greenough, J. P. Cooke...
...nearly four thousand volumes. In 1866, Charles Francis Adams gave a collection of forty-eight volumes printed in Great Britain in relation to the rebellion. The Library also contains one hundred and sixty-eight volumes of manuscripts used by Jared Sparks, the manuscripts and books used by W. H. Prescott in preparing his Ferdinand and Isabella, and nearly six thousand publications collected by Dr. J. G. Palfrey. Among the manuscripts are some dating back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and one written in the ninth century. Since its foundation the Library has been in the charge of sixty librarians...