Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such pleasure as your friendly words. The proverb tells us that "he who plants pears, plants for his heirs." I seem to myself (and it is no small gratification to an old man) to be tasting fruit from a tree of my own setting as I read what you say to me. I shall treasure your letter with its long list of signatures as the most precious collection of autographs I could leave to my descendants. No doubt many of the names will one day have the same price in the eyes of the world as now in mine...
...very hard to say no to such an appeal, and it costs me a struggle to say it. I can scarce find in my vocabulary a negative soft enough and hesitating enough for the occasion. Were I living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that...
WHAT'S the matter with '88? Have they forgot where Pach's Studio is? If so we would say just here that it is between Beck Hall and the church, and Mr. Tupper is waiting for them. Come in and sit or make an appointment Monday, Tuesday and Thursday...
...this I say with full recognition of the "hideousness, the immense ennui" of life passed in correcting themes. I should also like to say, without presumption, if possible, that the comments of one of our instructors leave little to be desired...
WHAT'S the matter with '88? Have they forgot where Pach's Studio is? If so we would say just here that it is between Beck Hall and the church, and Mr. Tupper is waiting for them. Come in and sit or make an appointment Monday, Tuesday and Thursday...