Literary Boston As I Knew It (From Literary Friends And Acquaintance)
Literary Boston As I Knew It (From Literary Friends And Acquaintance)
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
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No doubt I had made much of my own Quakerdescent (which I felt was one of the few things I had to be proud of), and he therefore spoke the more frankly of those traits of brutality intowhich the primitive sincerity of the sect sometimes degenerated. Hethought the habit of plain-speaking had to be jealously guarded to keepit from becoming rude-speaking, and he matched with stories of his ownsome things I had heard my father tell of Friends in the backwoods whowere Foes to good manners. Whittier ...was one of the most generous of men towards the work of others, especially the work of a new man, and if I did anything that he liked, Icould count upon him for cordial recognition. In the quiet of hiscountry home at Danvers he apparently read all the magazines, and kepthimself fully abreast of the literary movement, but I doubt if he sofully appreciated the importance of the social movement. Like someothers of the great anti-slavery men, he seemed to imagine that mankindhad won itself a clear field by destroying chattel slavery, and he had.
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