Category: Biographies
George William Curtis was born in Providence, February 24, 1824. From the age of six to eleven he was in the school of C.W. Greene at Jamaica Plain, and then, until he was fifteen, attended school in Providence. His brother Burrill, two years older, was his inseparable compani...
I have heard very little music in Italy--never so little in a winter. In Rome the opera was nothing, and there were only two or three concerts. That of a young Pole pianiste who...
11. Part 11The chief value of Ole Bull is that he introduces us more nearly to art. It is the prerogative of genius to illustrate that; therefore he stood before us as one who had in rapt...
14. Part 14Individually I am grateful for your article upon De Meyer. It gives me an idea of his exhilarating impression, which I had dimly supposed from what I heard of him. I wait eagerl...
13. Part 13I am weary of these winds, which have blown so constantly through the spring; and would so gladly exchange their long wail to-night for some of your music. And yet they are musi...
7. Part 7My dear Friend,--Your letter did not reach my hands until last evening, when I returned from Newport, where I have passed the last eight days, how pleasantly I need not tell you...
9. Part 9Do you not mean some day to gather your musical essays together, like a whorl of leaves, and suffer them to expand into a book, though not with the cream--colored calyx that Tic...
8. Part 8The world henceforth gives to Ole Bull the full and generous satisfaction of his needs. It cannot fail to esteem God's messengers when they come, if they be true and collected....
5. Part 5It was to the house of Captain Nathan Barrett, one mile north of Concord village, west of the river, and overlooking it and its meadows, that the Curtis brothers went. Barrett w...
6. Part 6"During the lapse of the three years since the bridal tour of twenty miles ended at the 'two tall gate-posts of roughhewn stone,' a little wicker wagon had appeared at intervals...
15. Part 15The review of Mr. Hawthorne's book in the last _Harbinger_ is delicately appreciative. The introductory chapter is one of the softest, clearest pictures I know in literature. Hi...
1. Part 1George William Curtis was born in Providence, February 24, 1824. From the age of six to eleven he was in the school of C.W. Greene at Jamaica Plain, and then, until he was fifte...
3. Part 3Another member of Brook Farm in its earlier period was Minott Pratt, who had been a printer, and the foreman in the office of the _Christian Register_, the Unitarian paper publi...
12. Part 12I think it highly probable that I shall pass some weeks in Providence next month, and so will defer my day with you at Brook Farm until that time, of which I will inform you.
10. Part 10I have been reading Goethe's "Tasso." Now I am at the "Sorrows of Werther." I am wonderfully impressed with his dramatic power. The "Egmont," "Iphigenia," and "Tasso" are grande...
2. Part 2"I did not at first recognize the operatic air, so admirably modified and retarded it was, and its former rapid words replaced by a sad and touching theme, which called for nobl...
4. Part 4In 1878 the desire of the Ditson publishing house to make the _Journal of Music_ more popular in its character, and more directly helpful to their business interests, led Dwight...
17. Part 17I have the photograph of Carrie Cranch's remarkable portrait of you, which is a precious possession; and when I see Cranch I hear of you and when I don't see him I think of you,...