Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home…
(1841)
“ M. has gone off to leave ours at Captain Hall's door, and then he will leave his card at ours, and there the matter will end. We have been walking over the town, over the ramparts, and through some fine gravelled avenues shaded with elms. Don't fancy our elms, with their drooping embowering branches—no, nothing so beautiful—but what we call the English elm, with its upright, stiff stem. ”
Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home…
(1841)
“ Place and circumstance are never less important to a man than when he is dying, and yet it was a striking contrast (and the world is full of such) , the man dying in this wretched, dark, stifling hole, when his name was resounding through all the palaces of Europe, and making our young hearts leap in the New World. ”
Catharine Maria Sedgwick,
Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home…
(1841)
“ Captain H. led us to the quarter-deck, and showed us a brass plate inserted in the floor, inscribed with these words, "Here Nelson fell!" This was a thrilling sight to those of us who remembered when Nelson was held as the type of all gallantry, fighting for liberty against the world. R. was obliged to turn away till he could command bis emotions, and I thought of the time when we were all children together at home, and I saw him running breathless up the lane, tossing his hat into the air and shouting, "Nelson! Victory!" Truly, "the child is father to the man." ”
