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Josephine Lowell – extracts on the Greene family

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Rhinelander Stewart. The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell. New York: Macmillan, 1911. [page 13] I know a great many men in the army who are: My brother, and first cousin, H. S. Russell, […]

Greene family portraits

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Charles Carleton Coffin. History of Boscawen and Webster, from 1733 to 1878. Concord, N. H.: Republican Press Association, 1878. 384-394. GREENE, NATHANIEL. Nathaniel Greene was born in Boscawen, 20 May, 1797. He was christened Peter; […]

Charles Sumner visits the Greenes in Paris, 1857

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Edward Lillie Pearce, Charles Sumner. Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. III, 1845-1860. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. “March 26 [1857]. Wrote letters home ; visited the Invalides, and saw the new tomb of Napoleon […]

Lilian Freeman Clarke visits Anna Greene in Paris, 1882

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

James Freeman Clarke. Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1889. 369. LONDON, May 29,1882. Our voyage was rather long, cold, foggy and disagreeble, and we were glad last Thursday […]

Notice of William B. Greene, Transcendentalism, etc

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“New Publications.” The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review. 45, 5 (May, 1871), 544. TRANSCENDENTALISM, and THE FACTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, and the Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer, are the titles of two remarkable pamphlets by Mr. […]

Notice of William B. Greene, The Blazing Star

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Notice of New Books,” The New Englander, XXXII, 1 (January, 1873), 183. MR. WILLIAM B. GREENE’S BLAZING STAR† seems to us to shine by a reflected light, and that light, whatever there is, is reflected […]

Ezra Heywood and prison vaccinations

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“An American Experience,” The Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review, 1 (April, 1879), 12. AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. MR. EZRA H. HEYWOOD, a fellow labourer with W. Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Parker Pillsbury, for […]

B. W. Ball, The Revolution

August 19, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

B. W. Ball, “The Revolution,” The Radical Review, 720. THE REVOLUTION. There is no pause. Still blow resounds on blow,The order old making to shake and reelFrom base to pinnacle. To dust brought low,Crescent and […]

Edward Stanwood, Mr. Spooner’s Island Community

August 19, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Edward Stanwood, “Mr. Spooner’s Island Community,” The Radical Review, 578-581. MR. SPOONER’S ISLAND COMMUNITY. If one could only accept all of Mr. Lysander Spooner’s assumptions as true, his argument would be sound and his conclusions […]

I. G. Blanchard, The Warfare

August 19, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I. G. Blanchard, “The Warfare,” The Radical Review, 533. THE WARFARE. Along the battle’s flaming van We mark the tried and true, —Defenders of the cause of man, A chosen, peerless few.Born to their mission […]