Sketch of the Life of Edward C Herrick Late Librarian And Treasurer of Yale Co
Sketch of the Life of Edward C Herrick Late Librarian And Treasurer of Yale Co
Thomas Anthony Thacher
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The ' golden moment of opportunity, ' which, when once suffered to pass, rarely comes again, seems to have gone by for me. For the last three years my leisure time has been so scanty and so much broken, that although I hare begun many things, (important, as it seems to me), yet it has been out of my power to bring scarcely any of them to a satisfactory issue. Utterly and forever to relinquish these, is a thought too distressing to en- dure. " It will surprise most of those who knew Mr. Herrick ...well, to learn that he ever wrote so much respecting himself. It cer- tainly was an unusual thing for him, and he even concludes the second letter by saying, " I have said much more about myself than I intended, " adding, " for the distress weighs upon me. " Moreover, each extract is at the close of a long letter full of scientific information and discussion. Not far from this time he received several invitations to con- nect himself with literary institutions, which he declined. Eut the necessity which prevented his accepting the offer of a place in the scientific corps of the United States Exploring Ex- pedition, under Capt.
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