Letter : Boston, to Samuel Longfellow, Elkridge Landing, Maryland, 1840 Feb. 13.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Letter : Boston, to Samuel Longfellow, Elkridge Landing, Maryland, 1840 Feb. 13.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27095839

Eliot writes from the "countingroom" where he is employed, to his classmate from Harvard, Samuel Longfellow, teaching school near Baltimore. Eliot asks whether Longfellow ever whips his students "for exercise and warmth," and describes flogging as a "moral purgative." He goes on to describe an informal club "of mutual improvement and amusement" that has been formed in Boston, and names those who attend the Wednesday meetings, including Nathan Hale, Charles R. Bond and William W. Greenough.

1 item (4 p.)

Boston Athenaeum

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7233287

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60c4xh1 (person)

Longfellow was an Unitarian clergyman and hymn writer. He was the younger brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of [Poem, Mar. 1877] / Sam.l Longfellow. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 245202647 American clergyman and hymn writer; brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of Autograph postal card signed : [Boston?], to A.V. Anthony, [postmark 1887 Mar. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 649496781 America...

Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1858.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cg7dtf (person)