DANA FAMILY Verizon Yahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net Page 1 of 2 Verizon Yahoo! Mail Verizon Central Yahoo! Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon Mail Home Tutorials Help YAHOO! verizon [Sign Out, Member Center MAIL Mail Addresses Calendar Notepad Mail For Mobile - Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Folders [Add Edit] Previous Next I Back to Messages Inbox (18) Delete Reply Forward Move Draft This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - Mark as Unread Printable View Sent Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Bulk [Empty] "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Add to Trash [Empty] From: Address Book Add Mobile Alert My Folders [Hide] Subject: Cornelia Gilder, the Dana Family, & G.B. Dorr Eliz messages To: dtdana@adelphia.net Member Information Dear David, Ron Archives (18) Nini Gilder suggested more than a year ago that I contact you regarding a Search Shortcuts troublesome detail connected with my research. Finally, I'm heeding her advice. My Photos I am presently writing a biography of George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), My Attachments Harvard graduate (1874), son of Charles Hazen Dorr (1821-1893) and Mary Gray Ward (1820-1901). Mr. Dorr's maternal grandfather (Thomas Wren Ward, 1786-1858) was the enormously influential American agent representing the London banking house of Barings; his uncle, Samual Gray Ward was a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a founder of the Saturday Club (to which Richard Henry Dana Sr. was admitted in 1873). Now, the issue at hand. While a junior at Harvard (1873) George B. Dorr and his brother William journey to London where they stayed in the Queen's Hotel on a Piccadilly side street. In Dorr's memoirs he says that they then began to further explore the U.K. with "one of the old Dana family of America." Their travels encompassed Oxford, a boat ride down the Thames, a trip to the Isle of Man and bathing nude in the ocean where they became anxious to escape the eyes of curious bystanders. Onto Wales and the Carnarvon ruins and a climb up Mt. Snowdon, Then to York and the great cathedral and with the Summer nearing its end they move onto Paris and the Hotel du Louvre where they stayed several weeks. Is it possible to determine the identity of this Dana? I've look into the bibliographic evidence for mineralogist Edward Salisbury Dana (1849-1935), librarian and museum director John Cotton Dana (1856-1929), and Richard Henry Dana 3rd 1851-1931), motivated largely by the fact that all were contemporaries of the Dorr brothers. Several decades later Dorr would partner with the President of Harvard, Charles W. Eliot, and establish the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations (and the land acquired would become Acadia National Park). One of the founding Trustees (in 1901) was the aforementioned Professor Edward S. Dana, who served as second vice-president of the organization from 1901- http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=8756_2845188_67751_660_2290_ 4/29/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail - -eppster2@verizon.net Page 2 of 2 1909.; might this alliance have had its roots back in 1873? I have a copy of an August 12, 1931 address given by Professor Dana tracing the development of the summer colony on Mount Desert Island (ME) at Seal Harbor, a document that is highly regarded by MDI historians. I've examined the biographies of Dana family members that appear in the Dictionary of American Biography and combed through Samuel Shapiro's Richard Henry Dana,Jr. (1961). / thought that Richard Henry Dana's Hospitable England in the Seventies; the Diary of a Young American, 1875-1976 (1921) might provide the key but I could find nothing about the Dorrs. In the interest of thoroughness I've also consulted H.W.L. Dana's The Dana Saga (1941), Elizabeth Ellery Dana's The Dana Family in America (1956), and Charles Francis Adams' Richard Henry Dana (1890). I'd appreciate your consideration of these matters and any hints you might be able to offer that might clarify which Dana might have toured England with the Dorr brothers in 1873 and whether any of the Dana family members might have corresponded with Dorr or Ward family members. With best wishes, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Ron Epp 47 Pond View Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@verizon.net Delete Reply Forward Move Previous I Next I Back to Messages Save Message Text I Full Headers Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | Copyright/IP Policy I Terms of Service I Send Feedback Help NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=8756_2845188_67751_660_2290_. 4/29/2007 Page 1 of 1 Epp, Ronald From: Cornelia Gilder [cbgilder@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:45 PM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Re: George Dorr Again Dear Ron, Good to hear from you. I would love your improved family tree on the Dorrs. In answer to some of your queries Dave Dana is a contemporary of mine and is the person who has Richard Starr Dana's letters and knows alot about the Dana family in that era (1850s, 60s). I alerted him that you might be contacting him (dtdana@adelphia.net). Carlsbod,CA. The June 1, 1901 "Lenox Life" reported that the old Dorr house had been moved off the site 30 feet and was being used to house workmen during the construction of Blantyre. I have found very little published about the Haggertys except passing references in connection to Robert Gould Shaw. Ernest Bowditch's papers are at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem I have a feeling I have never sent you my draft chapter on Highlawn, written ages ago and due to be updated but here it is for what it is worth. NINI Quick bach. 1/30/2006 Pq. / of3, 8/12/18 See Pack Street for full copy. Bless Perry Richard Herry Dava 1851-1931. Booter : Houseston liffler, 1933 Pelse fearly on Dans's Hospital English in th written In 192?, his true doarg of her 1875-06 first visit to Europe falling a effects is Easlen, has sooned if # 13. Halworth Hall. it fast BBD it 4 RKD were no mention intides of GBD though path in U.K.X Elespe at same time. p. 183 Though Dana was not elected an Oversees or member of the Corporation, "Lewa always Lerry add jobs for However. They rouged for reising frend for Everson Hall down to th humble fash of severy 00 treasurerfa OBK His reward the pleasure of association art famie professors of philosophy, James, logue, interesty men -packaulay with the four Mienstuberg ad Palmer! Then @ Santugava cerca 1885. p.184 On Dand day 'he was are of the last new-Syllanders. to attenept to set down the would or paol das 7h 4/10/17. Family Dana, Papers at letter P. Dammay 89 boxes Ms. N -1088 Rethand Henry Darse III Paper, 1862-1931 - notes on lowy at Haward, 1870-72 Box 44 - Appt Book (1875-76). A Puinted return on reuncer if th Howard class of 1874. Box 47-48. see Hospitable Evpland in the Seventes, 1902-1921 Box52 Box 49-57 Roya dropts of 2 Droft of Severy Year and are autotignopheid think : Richard Hang Dan 3rd to her Dercendants 1907. Box 53-574 Clepping & copia of article by @ RHD. the Dana saga ine Camoriage Historical Society Page I of 39 TheCAMBRIDGEHISTORICALSOCIETY HOME EVENTS HOOPER-LEE-NICHOLS HOUSE ONLINE RESOURCES PUBLICATIONS LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE GET INVOLVED GIVE ABOUT US The Dana Saga Search Submitted by Ken3 on Tue, 07/29/2014 1:21pm Search this site: CAPTCHA Author: H.W.L. Dana This question is for testing whether you are a Volume: 26 human visitor and to prevent automated spam Pages: 63-123 Years: 1940 Copyright: 1941 submissions. What code is in the image?: Publishers: Cambridge Historical Society Enter the characters shown in the image. THE DANA SAGA Search BY H. W.L DANA Read October 22, 1940 Donate THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, in 1640, a number of young men set sail from England to We are funded 100% by individual donations and local corporate support. Please demonstrate your cross the Atlantic Ocean and join friends of theirs at Cambridge in New England. commitment to Cambridge History and donate today! They knew that further south, in the Old Dominion of Virginia, certain Englishmen had settled Donate during the reign of James I at Jamestown on the James River; and that here, in the Massachusetts VISA Bay Colony to which they were going, other Englishmen had settled during the reign of Charles I at Charlestown on the Charles River. Three miles further inland along this same River Charles, where there was a clearing in the forest and a raised bit of land, a site had been selected for a New Town in 1630. Those who were approaching the stern and rock-bound coast of New England ten years later, in 1640, had heard that the English settlers had chosen this place for their first college in the Newsletter New World, the first flower of their wilderness, and that this pleasant town by the winding river had come to be called Cambridge. Click here to view, or visit the publications tab Thank you to our generous sponsors: RICHARD DANA (1617-1690) Among these new comers to Cambridge, three hundred years ago, was a young man by the name Boyes-Watson Architects of Richard Dana. At first engaged as a servant in such humble tasks as mowing hay on the salt Hill Harder Development S&H Construction marshes along the river, he gradually rose to positions of some importance and, at his death fifty years later, left behind him a large family, from whom in turn have come innumerable Dana descendants scattered today through the length and breadth of this country. BOYES-WATSON ARCHITECTS Since there seems to have been no one else by the name of Dana to have settled in America, practically all the Danas in America are descended from this one pioneer ancestor. These various members of the Dana family have succeeded in tracing their ancestry back to him and H HILL HARDER Copyright, 1941, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana; all rights reserved. 63 S+H construction QUALITY INTEGRITY VALUE have naturally been anxious to find out more about him and his origins. Until recently, however, nothing was known of where this progenitor of the Dana family in America Contact Us! came from or of the origins of the name Dana. Many wild guesses have been made. It is now abundantly clear, however, that this Richard Dana, who came to America in 1640, is the same The Cambridge Historical Society Richard Dana as the one whose name has been found in the old manuscript Parish Register of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House 159 Brattle Street Collegiate Church at Manchester in England. There, among those who had been christened on Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 October 31, 1617, some twenty-three years earlier than Richard Dana's coming to Cambridge, 617-547-4252 info@cambridgehistory.org there is found listed the name of http://www.cambridgehistory.org/content/dana-saga 4/19/2017 neury Dana 111 Page 1 or L Richard Henry Dana III From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Henry Dana III (January 3, 1851 - December 16, 1931) was an American lawyer and civil service reformer. Contents 1 Life 2 Career 3 Legacy 4 References Life Dana was the son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; he married in 1878, Edith Longfellow (1853-1915), the daughter of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. They had four sons, Richard Henry Dana IV and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, Edmund Trowbridge Dana III, and another. In 1922 he remarried to Helen Ford Mumford(1) (1865-1934). Dana graduated from Harvard University. In 1874, he looked back on those years: "Days in college were happy-go-lucky times, even for the most studious and athletic." 2 Same year that G.B.DORR graduated from Harvard. Career Dana was the author of the Massachusetts Ballot Act of 1888, the first state Australian ballot (secret ballot) act passed in the US. Dana wrote a substantial biography of his father, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. He became a friend and financial adviser to Hosea Ballou Morse, ¹ whom he introduced to Theodore Roosevelt. [4] Legacy The papers and photographs of Dana, together with material relating to him collected by his son, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, and his sister, Elizabeth, are held at the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. [5] Some family financial records are held at the Houghton Library, Harvard, these include correspondence between Dana and William Penn Cresson, relating to the Cresson's biography of Francis Dana. [6] A number of letters are in the Abernathy Collections at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Dana_III 4/19/2017 Kicnara Henry Dana 111 - wikipedia Page 2 of 2 Middlebury College library, though these may be by his father. [7] A substantial collection of family papers (including 293 bound volumes and 81 boxes) is held at the Massachusetts Historical Society. [8] Family papers are also found at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library. References 1. Cambridge Tribune 4 March 1922 2. Fairbank, John King, Martha Henderson Coolidge, and Richard J. Smith. H. B. Morse: Customs Commissioner and Historian of China. University of Kentucky Press, 1995: 16. ISBN 0813119340 3. Fairbank, John King, Martha Henderson Coolidge, and Richard J. Smith. H. B. Morse: Customs Commissioner and Historian of China. University of Kentucky Press, 1995: 102. ISBN 0813119340 4. Fairbank, John King, Martha Henderson Coolidge, and Richard J. Smith. H. B. Morse: Customs Commissioner and Historian of China. University of Kentucky Press, 1995: 189. ISBN 0813119340 5. "Finding Aid for the Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) Papers" (PDF). Nps.gov. Retrieved 2013-10-22. 6. "Dana family. Dana family financial records: Guide". Oasis.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-04. 7. "Abernethy Collections". Middarchive.middlebury.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-04. 8. "MHS Dana Family Papers, 1654-1950:Guide to the Collection". Masshist.org. Retrieved 2012-08-04. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Richard_Henry_Dana_III&oldid=722112374 Categories: 1851 births 1931 deaths American lawyers Harvard University alumni American jurist stubs This page was last modified on 26 May 2016, at 02:02. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Dana_III 4/19/2017 6 - Elizabeth Ellery Dana Personal Papers Collection Description Cross-references: More papers of the Dana family are deposited at the Massachusetts Historical Society and at the Schlesinger Library of Harvard University. The Massachusetts Historical Society holds the Dana Family Papers, 1654-1933, which primarily includes papers from Francis Dana (1743-1811), Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787-1879), Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882), and Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931), although other members of the Dana family are also represented. The Schlesinger Library holds the Dana Family Papers, 1822-1956, which primarily includes some papers of Sarah Watson Dana (1814-1907), Ruth Charlotte Dana (1814-1901), Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939), and Rosamond Dana Wild (1879-1959). The papers of EED in this collection include correspondence, genealogical research materials and many of her diaries. In addition, because of the many people working with the papers at the Longfellow House, not the least of whom was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana himself, there is a certain amount of intermingling between collections. Materials from the Elizabeth Ellery Dana Personal Papers have been removed to, taken from, or reference similar topics as the collections listed below. LONG 21808: Dana Collected Correspondence, 1808-1938 (Bulk Dates 1857-1934). The primary force behind the accumulation of this collection was EED. She not only saved her own correspondence but that of family members, including her mother Sarah (Watson) Dana (1814-1907), her siblings, and others. The collection contains this correspondence along with related items such as newspaper clippings, natural history specimens, objects and photographs that were all enclosed with various letters throughout the collection. LONG 27037: Dana Family Papers, Collected Manuscripts, Genealogies, and Research Materials, 1661-1960 (bulk dates 1750-1940) is a collection of papers amassed by Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881-1950) through the course of their research and writing of The Dana Family in America. The collection subcollections and their corresponding series. Collection Description Elizabeth Ellery Dana Personal Papers - 7 contains subcollections: I. The Dana Family in America Records and II. The Dana Family: Research and Collected Manuscripts. This collection contains little personal material related to EED; however, EED conducted a great deal of research on the Dana Family and related subjects and those materials along with the publication records for this book are a part of this collection. LONG 17314: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881-1950) Papers, 1744-1972. EED's research notes on Two Years Before the Mast and correspondence with HWLD are in this collection. LONG 27883: Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) Papers, 1797- 1947 (bulk dates: 1860-1915). This collection contains research about RHD III by EED and HWLD and many letters by RHD III to EED. LONG 16173: Papers of Alice Mary Longfellow (1850-1928), 1855-1965 (bulk dates: 1873-1928). The correspondence series in AML's papers includes outgoing correspondence to EED. LONG 27930: The Longfellow Family Papers include correspondence written to EED by members of the Longfellow Family especially Edith Longfellow Dana (1853-1915). 3 Collection Description Elizabeth Ellery Dana Personal Papers - 7 contains subcollections: I. The Dana Family in America Records and II. The Dana Family: Research and Collected Manuscripts. This collection contains little personal material related to EED; however, EED conducted a great deal of research on the Dana Family and related subjects and those materials along with the publication records for this book are a part of this collection. LONG 17314: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881-1950) Papers, 1744-1972. EED's research notes on Two Years Before the Mast and correspondence with HWLD are in this collection. LONG 27883: Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) Papers, 1797- 1947 (bulk dates: 1860-1915). This collection contains research about RHD III by EED and HWLD and many letters by RHD III to EED. LONG 16173: Papers of Alice Mary Longfellow (1850-1928), 1855-1965 (bulk dates: 1873-1928). The correspondence series in AML's papers includes outgoing correspondence to EED. LONG 27930: The Longfellow Family Papers include correspondence written to EED by members of the Longfellow Family especially Edith Longfellow Dana (1853-1915). THE DANA FAMILY IN AMERICA BY ELIZABETH ELLERY DANA CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1956 546 DANA GENEALOGY DANA GENEALOGY 547 1847, died Newport, N. H., Nov. 14, 1929, daughter of Hon. 664 Edmund and Anne (Matson) Burke of Newport, N. H. Col. THOMAS DOUGLAS CHARLES KINNAIRD 7 DANA (Capt. Doug- Dana entered the East India mercantile trade at Singapore, las C. K.,6 William P., Edmund,4 Richard,3 Daniel,2 Richard 1), S.S., as a young man, but on President Lincoln's call for volun- born July 31, 1847; died Sept. 27, 1921; married in 1869, SARAH teers he left Singapore for the United States to enlist. He was ALLEN, daughter of John Allen of Chartres, Cambridgeshire, commissioned as 2d Lieut. in the 33d Mass. Vols., and served through McClellan's and Grant's campaigns. He was in twenty- Eng. Children: seven engagements and was wounded at the battle of Gettys- burg; A. D. C. to Maj.-Gen. Napoleon J. T. Dana, and at the i. ALBERT HENRY,8 d. in infancy. end of the war was brevetted Major and Lieut. Col. "for gallant ii. ANNIE, b. May 24, 1870; m. in 1889, Frederick William Carver. iii. THOMAS K., b. Feb. 3, 1879; m. Aug. 21, 1898, Winnifred and meritorious conduct." Member of the Loyal Legion. In Todd. He was captain in Australian Mounted Police; d. 1865, after his marriage, he returned to Singapore to resume his in service. business. He retired in 1870 and made his home in Newport, Children: N.H. Res. Singapore, Newport and Portsmouth, N. H. 1. WINNIFRED E., b. Nov. 1900. Child: 2. LILLIAN M., b. May 24, 1902. i. FRANCIS,8 b. Singapore, Mar. 4, 1866; d. Newport, Jan. 28, iv. WILLIAM PULTENEY, b. Apr. 20, 1881; m. Edith Carruthers. 1934; buried Burke family lot, Newport; m. New York, V. ANNABELLA, m. Frank Poole. June 8, 1911, Ethel Whipple Jones, dau. of Alfred W. and vi. EMILY, m. Alfred Todd. Virginia (Whipple) Jones. He was educated at St. Paul's vii. FLORENCE, m. George Todd. School, Concord, N. H., and Harvard Law School. Ad- viii. MAUD BEATRICE, m. John Russell. mitted to the bar, practicing with Joseph Willard in Bos- ton. Author of two novels and other stories and articles 665 for various papers. Res. Laramie, Wyo., New York, N. Y., and Newport, N. H. HENRY CHARLES FORRESTER KINNAIRD 7 DANA (Capt. Doug- Child: las C. K., William P., 5 Edmund,4 Richard,3 Daniel, ² Richard 1. HAZEN,9 b. Aug. 9, 1915. born Sept. 3, 1853; died Nov. 29, 1910; married ADA FRANCES BRIGHTWELL of Shrewsbury, Eng. 667 Children: RICHARD HENRY 7 DANA the 3d (Richard H.,6 Richard H., 5 i. Rev. WALLACE HENRY,8 b. London, May 8, 1890; m. Jan. 4, Francis,4 Richard, Daniel, ² Richard born Cambridge, Jan. 3, 1915, Alice Maude Muller of Highgate, London. He was 1851; died Cambridge, Dec. 16, 1931, buried Mount Auburn; in the army, but illness caused his resignation. He became a licensed layman for twenty years at Holy Trinity Church, married (1) Appleton Chapel, Cambridge, Jan. 10, 1878, EDITH East Finchley, a suburb of London; was made assistant LONGFELLOW, born Craigie House, Cambridge, Oct. 22, 1853, priest in 1933, when he was ordained by Dr. Winnington died Manchester, Mass., July 21, 1915, buried Mount Auburn, Ingram, Lord Bishop of London. Res. East Finchley, Eng. daughter of Henry Wadsworth and Frances (Appleton) Long- Child: fellow; married (2) Boston, Feb. 25, 1922, Mrs. HELEN SHER- 1. EDMUND FRANCIS KINNAIRD,9 b. Oct. 17, 1915. WOOD (FORD) MUMFORD, born Troy, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1865, ii. ARTHUR KINNAIRD, b. Aug. 19, 1897; marine engineer at daughter of Daniel Wilson and Marietta (Billings) Ford of Troy, Newbury, Eng. N. Y.; widow of Dr. James Gregory Mumford, Harvard, 1885, 666 who died in 1914. She died in Cambridge, Jan. 24, 1934. She received the "Medaille de Reconnaisance de la France" from Col. GEORGE HAZEN 7 DANA (Francis,6 Francis, Francis,4 the French government in recognition of her work for devastated Richard,3 Daniel, Richard 1), born Boston, Sept. 2, 1837; died France. Portsmouth, N. H., Oct. 17, 1917; married Boston, Feb. 22, Richard Henry Dana the 3d was educated in Cambridge public 1865, FRANCES MATSON BURKE, born Washington, D. C., Oct. 7, schools and St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; Harvard, A.B., 548 DANA GENEALOGY 1874; Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1877. He was stroke oar of the Freshman crew, and for three years stroke oar and for two years captain of the Harvard University crew. In 1875-76 he visited England and in 1879 he made a trip in a sailing vessel from New York to San Francisco, visiting scenes of his father's famous narrative, "Two Years Before the Mast," later writing chapters for a new edition of that book. After his return, and while practicing law in Boston, he devoted much time to public affairs, being secretary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Re- form League, for which he drew up the act finally adopted by the State. He drafted the original bill for the Australian ballot system, which Massachusetts was the first State to adopt, by the ballot act of 1888. He was interested in tax reform and social betterments, being chairman of the Associated Charities of Boston. In 1890 he became president of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association. He was instrumental in raising money for the New England Conservatory of Music, being presi- dent of the trustees in 1891. In 1901 he was one of three com- missioners appointed to inquire into the question of a dam at the mouth of the Charles River, and his report was mainly re- sponsible for the carrying out of this project. He was elected a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College in 1901. He was a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, being a communicant of the Church of the Advent in Boston and of Christ Church in Cambridge, and was treasurer of the Trustees of the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge for forty-two years. He wrote many articles and a few books, notably, in 1895, "Double Taxation in Massachusetts;" in 1910, the introduction and notes to "Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son," written by his father, Richard H. Dana, Jr.; and in 1921, "Hospitable England in the Seventies." He was president of the alumni association of St. Paul's School, a mem- ber of the Harvard Club of Boston and New York, and of the RICHARD HENRY DANA, 3RD Union Club and Exchange Club of Boston. He was the first 1851-1931 president of the Cambridge Historical Society. Member of the From a photograph taken when he was Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Historic a boy. Genealogical Society, the Boston Authors Club, the English Speaking Union, League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, and the Massachusetts Foreign Policy Association. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and president of the Oakley Country Club of Watertown. Res. Boston and Cambridge, and in sum- mer, Manchester, Mass., the former estate of his grandfather. A biography by Bliss Perry was published in 1932. Library(L) Dept NH University 9605 X2158 Bill 2/06 THE DANA SAGA Three Centuries of the Dana Family in Cambridge BY H. W. L. DANA THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1941 LIVERRY fill RICHARD HENRY DANA x 14/05 A BIOGRAPHY 5/19/02 BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. ougna ahr Ribrrside Diess BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY (the ninergibe Press, Cambridge 1890 330 RICHARD HENRY DANA. AET. 38. a striking illustration of the strange ways in which human justice is worked out, and the imperfection of its results. Varrell was the chief criminal, drew in Huxford, and planned the whole. He escaped and was unsus- `CHAPTER XVI. pected and was rewarded. There was absolutely no evidence against Huxford, and he would have been THE COAST OF MAINE. - COMMISSIONER LORING. - RACHEL. discharged in an hour had he not stated a false de- RUFUS CHOATE.-JUDGE WOODBURY DAVIS. - JUDGE fence of an alibi and asked for time. Even then he SHAW. ELIZA WHARTON. would have escaped, had he not broken faith with his surety and fled. He was convicted of a crime IN August of this year Dana was invited by William B. Franklin, afterwards a major-general in the civil war but of which he was guilty, but by perjured testimony. then a lieuteuant of Topographical Engineers in charge of That was furnished by the vindictiveness and self- the inspection of light-houses on the coast of Maine, to ac- interest of Varrell. One of the perjurers suffered, company him on a tour of inspection. George F. Shepley, but only from the temper of a man as bad as himself, United States District Attorney for Maine at that time and if not worse and the other is in almost affluent cir- subsequently (1869-1878) the judge of the United States cumstances. If there were no hereafter, if it were first circuit court, was also of the party. Immediately after the be-all, end-all here," if there were not entered his return, Dana wrote a letter to his wife in which he gave at the end of each man's account, as at the foot of the following account of what he did and saw on this, the the merchant's ledger, "carried forward," I do not see nearest approach to a yachting cruise he seems ever to have how we could believe that the world is ruled by a made. Being absolutely just, omniscient and omnipotent. 1854. Manchester, September 3. I suppose you wish to hear about my voyage. I reached Portland at ten P. M., where Shepley was waiting for me and took me to his house. The next day, as the schooner had not got in, I spent in Portland, chiefly lying still in the house and reading Romilly's Memoirs," which I finished. In the afternoon I joined a party of Eng- lish and Canadians in an excursion down the harbor in a steamer. In the evening had John Neal at tea, whom I found to be a character, one of the curiosities of literature, very entertaining, large, strong, with a spirited air, independent, quick in general, but with no malice, exceedingly egotistical, but not tronble- some on that account. 332 RICHARD HENRY DANA. AET. 39. THE COAST OF MAINE. 333 1854. The next day the schooner arrived, but we did not we have the same variety of sky that we have on sail until Thursday at noon. Oh, how parched and shore, and changes of the surface which the landsman dusty everything was in Portland, and what a relief never sees. Imagine that by changes of wind, calm to be upon the foaming sea ! or storms, the landscape should be thrown into hills All the light-houses, buoys and beacons in the or smoothed into a prairie before your sight, as you United States are placed under the charge of a sit at your window ! I like a dull, heaving calm, and scientific board of naval and military men at Wash- when the fresh breeze raises the sea into billows and ington, called the Light-house Board, and this Board they rush foaming past you, and your vessel bounds divides the coast into districts, over each of which over them, there is an ecstasy of delight which thrills an officer of the Engineer Corps (Topographical) is every nerve. placed as inspector. His duty is to visit the light- The coast of Maine is the most beautiful and in- houses, see that the keepers do their duty, suggest im- teresting coast in America, and I know of no coast in provements, see to their supply, report on new sites, the world where there are, in the same short space of and see that all buoys and beacons are in their places. 150 miles or so, so many harbors, bays, sounds, inlets, This is a new system, and has been in operation reaches, islands and headlands besides that, there with excellent results for two years. Each inspector are no wastes of sand; but the soil, although mostly has a vessel at his command, in which to make his light and barren, is still a soil with some verdure and tours. Lieutenant Franklin has charge of the coast forests of evergreen trees, with high hills and small of Maine. He is married and lives in Portland, and mountains come quite down to the shore as at Man- makes excursions from there east and west. The chester. The finest yachting ground I have ever vessel is a schooner of about eighty tons, a Baltimore seen is the "Edgemoggin Reach," a sound formed by clipper, and a pretty little craft. Franklin, Shepley the mainland on one side and a stretch of islands on and I had the cabin to ourselves, the master and the other about thirty miles long and from three to mate living forward, and I found everything agree- five wide, lying between the mouth of the Penobscot able. Uncle Sam's rations are not abundant, but we and Mount Desert. We visited Seguin Light, St. supplied some deficiencies, and had a good stock of George's, Booth Bay, Townsend, White Head, Owl's porter and ale and claret. I believe I was made for Head, Thomaston (Rockland), Camden Pumpkin the sea, and that all my life on shore is a mistake. Island, Bear Island, Becker's Island, Mount Desert, I was intended by nature for a general roamer and South-west Harbor, North-east Harbor, and returned traveller by sea and land, with occasional edits of to the mouth of the Penobscot, where I took the narratives, and my duties as lawyer, scholar and pub- steamer from Bangor to Boston, having been absent licist are all out of the way. To me the sea is never from Boston ten days, and on board the vessel eight monotonous. Whether in calm or blow, in fog or days. It has been as invigorating and reviving an clear sky, it is full of interest and variety. At sea excursion as I ever took, and I have enjoyed every 334 RICHARD HENRY DANA. . 39. 1854. THE COAST OF MAINE. 335 moment. It has brought back my old sea-life more hints and anecdotes as to soldier's life, all quite inter- than anything that has occurred to me since, espe- esting. This account of the battle of Buena Vista cially the landing in boats, of which we had a good agrees with that which Bliss gave me. They agree deal. Every day was fine weather, except a few that at the end of the day our army was exhausted, hours of rain one evening, and one day of very heavy dispirited, its vigor and morale gone, and that they swell, which rolled us about too much. Franklin all looked forward to the next day as to certain de- was on General Taylor's staff at Buena Vista, and I struction before this overwhelming force, and that got from him full accounts of that battle and of the the retreat of the Mexicans was unexpected. We war generally. Shepley, too, is a very pleasant com- woke up and found ourselves victors instead of vic- panion, and has a good deal of fun. We breakfasted tims. It flashed upon us that we had gained one of at seven, dined at twelve, had tea at six, and supper, the most remarkable victories of modern times, when with porter and ale, at nine. We had no adventure, we expected a day of certain destruction. He says except that I took Franklin and Shepley to an island that all the story of the Mississippi regiment using a few miles off in a sailboat belonging to the vessel, their bowie-knives is entirely false. They used only to visit a light, and, beating back against a heavy sea the rifle-ball, and not even bayonets. He spoke very and strong wind, carried away the mast, breaking it highly of Lincoln, and says he was killed by a shot short off at the throat. But we had got within a through the back of the head when facing a regi- mile or two of the vessel on our way back, and expe- ment, riding in front, and encouraging them on at rienced no difficulty. a critical moment when they were faltering under a Mount Desert is a beautiful region, made up by severe fire. His situation was a most exposed one, islands, high, rocky and picturesque, through which a situation which it would have been mere foolhardi- the sea runs up into very pretty harbors and inlets, ness. to take, except under the circumstances of this and the vessels run up among the hills and lie under battle, where our troops were chiefly volunteers, and their shelter. The light-house, seen from the sea, all depended on the officers. Lincoln was Acting looks as if it were away up in the country, shining at Adjutant General, and had no command of the regi- the base of a high hill. ment, but seeing them falter he rode in front and The diary supplements this letter with the following notes cheered them on by example as well as by word. of Lieutenant Franklin's talk about the Mexican war, Gen- Franklin says that Bliss was the ablest young man eral Taylor and the battle of Buena Vista, and describes in the army. But the entire credit of the. battle he also a visit to Professor Bache's coast survey encampment gives to Taylor. There was a power in old Tay- among the Camden hills. lor's presence, in his mere name, the mere confidence Franklin had been in the Mexican war, and was in that he was there, which kept up the day. He told General Taylor's staff at Buena Vista. From him I me it was his firm belief that if Taylor had been gained a full account of the battle, with many little killed, or if he had been detained two hours more at LINEARL Q. CORCORD 1. 1 RICHARD HENRY DANA A BIOGRAPHY BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. bieniou the Riverside Diess Circl BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Unbergibe Press, Cambridge 1890 162 RICHARD HENRY DANA. AET. 42. 1857. THESATURDAY CLUB. 163 carry me. After this read, in the quiet of my room, This was the Boston Saturday Club the fame of which," with the- - to a working lawyer-delicious repose as Mrs. Agassiz wrote in the memoir of her husband, 'has of inland scenery and absolute idleness, Hazlitt's spread beyond the city of its origin." The niost noteworthy Table-Talk." of the many Boston dinner clubs, it was indeed the only August 6. I believe I have nowhere mentioned American organization of the kind, - for as it grew older the Club. It has become an important and much val- it became an organization, - which, because of the eminence ued thing to us. The members are Emerson, Long- and reputation of those who had been members of it, could fellow, Agassiz, Lowell, Pierce, Motley, Whipple, be brought into comparison with its prototype, made famous through the pages of Boswell, of which Johnson, Burke, Judge Hoar, Felton, Holmes, S. G. Ward, J. S. Reynolds and Goldsmith were original members, and which, Dwight, H. Woodman and myself. We have no still flourishing in London, is now known simply as The written rules, and keep no records. Our only object Club. The little circle of friends who through so many is to dine together once a month. Our day is the last years gathered at Parker's in Boston has been popularly Saturday in every month, and we dine at Parker's. known as Emerson's and Agassiz's Club, as the Literary and A unanimous vote is required to elect a member. the Atlantic Club, and as the Saturday Club, but the last The expense of the dinner is assessed upon those alone is its correct name ; for, as early as 1859, Dana dedi- present, and charged at the office, SO we have no cated his " Cuba and Back" to " the gentlemen of the Sat- money affairs to attend to. Guests are permitted, but urday Club," and nearly thirty years later, having received each man pays for the guest he invites. The Club a bequest of money from one of their number, they formed had an accidental origin, in a habit of Emerson, themselves into a corporation under the name of The Sat- Dwight, Whipple and one or two more dining at urday Club," which still exists. Woodman's room at Parker's occasionally; for Wood- As Dana says, the Club originated with Horatio Wood- man, a member of the Suffolk bar, who, being unmarried, man is a bachelor, a literary quidnunc and gossip, or, lived at the Parker House. It was Dr. B. A. Gould, the as Gould says, genius broker." Ward is a friend mathematician and astronomer, who defined Woodman as of Emerson's, and came. From this the club grew, " genius broker," and the definition was a happy one, for Ward) Dwight, Woodman, Whipple and Emerson he had a craving for the acquaintance and society of men being the originals. Agassiz, Pierce and I were of reputation, and, indeed, lacked only the industry to have early invited to meet with them. This made it more been a sort of Boswell. In connection with the Saturday of a regular thing, and we established our verbal rule Club, also, an abundant field of interesting gossip and rem- as to membership, guests and expenses. Lowell came iniscence opened before him, had lie known enough to labor in soon after, and then Motley and Longfellow. The in it; but, as Dr. Holmes said in his memoir of Emerson, first formal vote we had for members was at this "the Club had no Boswell and its golden hours passed un- stage, for up to this time unanimous consent was ob- recorded." An amusing story-teller, with a natural eye for tained by conversation. The vote brought in Holmes character and a well developed sense of humor, Woodman had at his command an almost inexhaustible fund of anec- and Felton, which made the number fourteen, as many as we think it best to have. 164 RICHARD HENRY DANA. AET. 42. 1857. EMERSON. 165 dotes relating to the men who in those days made the Par- Mr. Ward, though Woodman was the means of bringing ker House and its somewhat famous restaurant a sort of the first members together, Emerson himself was the impell- headquarters. Though during the rebellion he was suffi- ing cause of his 80 doing for the idea of sonie such club ciently active and prominent to have been offered the posi- had long been a favorite one with Emerson, and before it tion of Assistant Secretary of War, yet in his own mind finally took shape he had referred to it again and again in the great achievement of his life was the founding of the letters to Ward, so the latter naturally became one of the Saturday Club, and his connection with that club which little circle. The bond f'connection between Emerson and could only have come about through his being its founder, John S. Dwight was more apparent, for not only had the lat- was the thing on which he noost prided himself. At a later ter been one of the contributors to "The Dial," but, when period he got into serious money difficulties, in consequence the philosopher of transcendentalism wearied of the pulpit, of which he lost such standing as he had, both socially and Mr. Dwight had at Emerson's own request succeeded him as at the bar and finally he put an end to his own life. preacher before the little Unitarian Society in East Lexing- He resigned his dearly prized membership in the Saturday ton. Subsequently Mr. Dwight in his turn found theology Club some time before, and it has been reported that this, unfruitful, and, after five years of Brook Farm experience, and the loss of the good opinion of its members, were the was now absorbed in editing that Journal of Music" predominant thoughts in his mind while nerving himself which 80 long as it existed bore his name. to the act of self-destruction. As Dana records, from this germ the Club grew Ward, Between the years 1850 and 1855 Emerson, then a man Dwight and E. P. Whipple, a lecturer and essayist whose of about fifty, was living at Concord, and it was his custom works were also published by Ticknor & Fields, meeting to come to Boston either every Saturday or on the last Sat- Emerson at Parker's for the purpose of dining together*a urday of each month to see his friends and transact such half past two o'clock on the last Saturday of every month, business as he might have on hand. The firm of Ticknor & Woodman arranging the details of the dinner. Emerson Fields, which originated the Atlantic Monthly Magazine," was thus the Johnson of the Saturday Club, as Woodman then kept the famous Old Corner Bookstore at the north- was to a degree, and should have been wholly, its Boswell. erly junction of School and Washington streets, and they Unhappily he kept no note-book. Through what affilia- were Emerson's publishers so that corner naturally became tion Dana became one of the company does not appear. the centre to which he gravitated. Here Woodman used There was certainly no particular sympathy, intellectual or to meet him, and by degrees, as Dana says, Emerson got otherwise, between himself and his ancient instructor at into the custom of going with Woodman to dine at Parker's Cambridge, now become, to quote Dana's own words, " a or the old Albion restaurant. Gradually it occurred to writer and lecturer upon what is called the transcendental Woodman that Emerson might be glad on these occasions philosophy." - a philosophy Dana unquestionably never to meet others, as others would certainly be glad to meet took the trouble even to try to understand. It is not Emerson. Samuel G. Wardwas then living in Boston, the likely, therefore, that Dana's connection with the Club as American agent of the London banking firm of Baring Bros. an original member was due to any especial desire on Em- & Co., and Mr. Ward had been on terms of personal inti- erson's part to meet him, or on his part to meet Emerson macy with Emerson for many years. Indeed, according to nor did he have more than a passing acquaintance with 166 RICHARD HENRY DANA. . 42. 1857. AGASSIZ. 167 either Mr. Ward or Mr. Dwight, upon both of whom he Governor Andrew was chosen in 1866, dying in the autumn probably looked down from the eminence of professional of the next year, and with him entered Dr. Jeffries Wyman. life as gentlemen engaged in "business" and "journal- Charles Francis Adams was made a member in 1870, not ism." Judge Hoar and Mr. Dana were, with the excep- long after his return from the mission to England, Professor tion of Woodman, the only lawyers in the company, and Asa Gray in 1874, Edmund Quincy in 1875, and James Judge Hoar was a fellow townsman and neighbor of Emer- Freeman Clarke in 1877. The list of the distinguished dead son's the probabilities are, therefore, that it was through who once gathered " when Saturday her monthly banquet Hoar and Woodman that Dana, with whose literary and spread' closes with the name of Henry Hobson Richardson, social qualities they were well acquainted, became one of the great architect. the little Emerson coterie. Dana describes how by the Speaking of this Club in its early days, Mr. Ward says election of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Cornelius C. Fel- Agassiz always sat at the head of the table by native right ton, then Professor of Greek at Harvard, the Club was of his huge good-fellowship and intense enjoyment of the brought up to fourteen in number, "as many," he adds, scene, his plasticity of mind and sympathy. I well " as we think it best to have." This is Dana's way of remember amongst other things how the Club would settle expressing it : but in later years, and after the Club had itself to listen when Dana had a story to tell. Not a word been largely increased, the tradition among the older mem- was missed, and those who were absent were told at the bers was that the limitation to fourteen had been somewhat next club what they had lost. Emerson smoked his cigar characteristically, as well as arbitrarily, imposed by Dana and was supremely happy, and laughed under protest when himself. In other words, Dana, in this as in other cases, the point of the story was reached." Referring to this same held himself high and believed in exclusiveness accord- early and golden period, Dr. Holmes wrote At that time ingly, though never allowing his position to be misunder- you would have seen Longfellow invariably at one end - stood, he had been liberal with his blackballs. The result the east end - of the long table, and Agassiz at the other. was that, in order to elect any one, it became necessary for Emerson was commonly near the Longfellow end, on his the other members to watch for some occasion when Dana left. There was no regularity, however, in the place of the was away, and then rush in their candidate before he got members. I myself commonly sat on the right hand side of back. Longfellow, so as to have my back to the windows; I think Whether this was so or not, the roll of the Saturday Club Dana was more apt to be on the other side. The mem- membership has, first and last, contained a singularly large bers present might vary from a dozen to twenty or more. proportion of well-known names, and some that are illustri= One of the most noted of our early guests was Commodore ous. The original fourteen have already been mentioned, Charles Wilkes of the San Jacinto, who had just taken and, among the dead, Emerson, Agassiz, Pierce, Longfel- Mason and Slidell from the Trent and was made a hero of low, Motley and Dana are in themselves a galaxy. The for his blunder. Charles Dickens dined with us during his historian Prescott and the poet Whittier were elected in second visit. He compounded a 'jug' anglicé, or pitcher 1858, followed by Hawthorne and Thomas Gold Appleton as we call it, of the gin punch for which his father was in 1859. The name of Dr. Samuel G. Howe was added to famous. No witch at her incantation could be more rapt in the list in 1861, and that of Charles Sumner a year later. her task than Dickens was in his as he stooped over the HOSPITABLE ENGLAND O IN THE SEVENTIES The Diary of a Young American 1875-1876 BY RICHARD - HENRY DANA With Illustrations purso X STIT BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Aiberside Press Cambridge 1921 IND DINNER WITH THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR 241 after a man and woman walked up to the hearse, not There were two parties wandering in and out, each with coming from the house, but from a cross-street. its torch flickering and looking to me more like spirits Then the door of the house opened again and the man coming back to find something lost centuries ago. who had gone up appeared carrying a long white pine I wandered next through the Forum and back under box with a large black cross painted on the top. The the Capitoline Hill, past the Arch of Septimus Severus, stranger who had come up with a lady on his arm helped through the Via Bonella, and got to bed soon after two. to put this box in the hearse, where it made the sixth with five others like itself. Each coffin had a crayon Sunday, March 12 number hastily written on one end. The stranger who WENT to the American church and to the second serv- had come up seemed to be known by the man at the ice in the English church. In the evening I dined with hearse. The only other person attending to what was MGWD Mrs. Dorr, of Boston, "very informally" as by invita- going on put his or her head out of the upper window, tion. Miss Trollope, a niece of Anthony Trollope, and from which the pall had been shaken. The hearse was Baroness Hoffmann, née Lily Ward, were the guests. quickly shut, the man mounted beside the driver, and off they went, dead and living, at a brisk trot, the four Tuesday, March 14 lanterns at the corners of the hearse marking its way AT eight o'clock I dined with Sir Augustus Paget, down the street until it turned off, and the lady and K.C.B., the British Ambassador. Lady Paget is a gentleman who had mysteriously appeared from a German, Countess Hohenthal, and is very handsome cross-street disappeared quite as mysteriously. There and agreeable. She has two young children and is lady was no prayer and no priest. Perhaps. the body was of honor to the Crown Princess of Prussia. At table merely being carried to a dead house to await a funeral were Mr. Wurts, the American Secretary of Legation, or perhaps it was the body of a stranger. The Italians' Colonel Dalton and daughter, a young Mr. Wilson, Lady fear of death and contagion is SO great that it is said Paget's niece, and the German secretary. Strawberries they dispose of a stranger in a few hours after death and for dinner! Sir Augustus said that the Italian Parlia- with little or no ceremony. ment trifle with their work, that they do not take up Walked on in the moonlight, passed the Basilica of serious questions, and that they broke up or tried to Constantine with its ponderous arches, which gave the break up the Ministry out of mere spite or petty model of those of St. Peter's, and under the Arch of jealousy, and the result is that no one who is capable is Titus, with the bas-relief, including the seven-branched willing to take the responsibility of the Government. candlestick, borne in his triumph from Jerusalem. The Paget is about fifty-three years of age and his wife moon was one day past the full and there was an occa- thirty-seven. He has had a long and honorable career sional cloud passing under it. Shadows below the arches in the diplomatic service, having been in Paris, Athens, of the Colosseum were dark and gloomy, but the in- Egypt, The Hague, Lisbon, Saxony, Sweden, Norway, side of that great amphitheatre was flooded with light. and Denmark. He was the grandson of the Earl of TWO VIEWS OF THE ARISTOCRACY 363 3 but the foolish ever do deny - the immense oppor- tunities and advantages of an aristocratic class wherever EPILOGUE it exists. He was quite conscious. - none but those without imagination can fail to be conscious - of the THE precedence which is SO strict in France is not in glamour of long descent and great affairs." And yet England kept up in the ordinary dinners excepting for that did not prevent Matthew Arnold's having sym- a few of the most distinguished guests. The rules are pathy for the less privileged classes, and in a poem to often cast to the winds for the sake of better arrange- Arthur Hugh Clough he said: ment of people at table, to bring out good conversation, and for myself, with no precedence at all beyond my "If thoughts, not idle, which before me flow, college degree, they have not infrequently given me The armies of the homeless and unfed - the place of honor just as a bit of kind hospitality to If these are yours, if this is what you are, Then I am yours, and what you feel I share." a stranger. The aristocracy hold a very high position. The best In contrast to Matthew Arnold's view of the aristo- of them feel their responsibility toward their tenants, cracy, which Mrs. Ward shared, is that brought out in giving a great deal of time and thought, as may be seen "The Education of Henry Adams." He says he "met from this journal, for their welfare, take an interest in in England a thousand people, great and small; jostled all the details of the families, and in return are treated against every one from royal princes to gin-shop loafers; with respect and deference. There is undoubtedly a attended endless official functions and private parties; glamour connected with persons of title in. Great Brit- visited every part of the United Kingdom he knew ain greater than in France, Italy, or Germany, but the the societies of one or two country houses and acquired great changes that have come since the World War of habits of Sunday afternoon calls; but all this gave 1914-18, the enormous succession levies and the very him nothing to do and was life wasted." And again, " of high super-taxes for large incomes, will very likely alter his daily life he had only to reckon SO many breakfasts, the whole situation and indeed has already done SO to so many dinners, SO many receptions, balls, theatres, a considerable degree. Many of the nobility have had and country parties, SO many cards to be left, SO many to give up part of their big estates, and it was their Americans to be escorted; all counting for nothing in wealth that undoubtedly gave them their position and sum, because it was mere routine, a single, contin- the ability to exercise hospitality on a large scale and to ued, unbroken act which led to nothing and nowhere keep up great houses. Perhaps we shall never again except Portland Place and the grave." see the nobility as they were in 1875-76. For myself, I took a position somewhat between the As to the situation in the seventies, Mrs. Humphry two. Without generalizing too much, I know that those Ward in her "Writer's Recollections," speaking of her I met were the most delightful, well-bred, courteous, uncle, Matthew Arnold, said: "He never denied - none true-hearted, generous people, by and large, that I have 364 HOSPITABLE ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTIES ENGLAND HOSPITABLE 365 ever come in contact with. They were well informed, tual friend, Mr. Robert Ferguson, M.P., that I was in some of them brilliant and delightful talkers. I made London, only to remain a few days longer, and would I many sincere friendships and their acquaintance en- lunch with him at his house the next Saturday, saying larged my view of life and its possibilities and was to that when in the United States he had spent a pleasant me at once an education and an inspiration. I shall afternoon with my father. That Saturday was engaged never forget these good people. I did not meet the fast and a day or two afterwards I left for the Continent. set or the few nouveaux riches of the aristocracy, and I Perhaps I made a mistake in not staying on in Lon- may have been particularly fortunate in the groups that don longer to see more of old friends and make new ones, I met. Then, too, they were human beings after all, but I felt, whether rightly or wrongly, that for my edu- and to picture the scene to one's self as an American I cation and for increasing my interest in history I ought sometimes thought what the situation would be did to visit the important parts of western Europe, which we in the United States issue patents of nobility. Had I had not seen, before returning to America in Septem- we done so, General Grant would have been Duke of ber, a thing I had to do in order to complete my studies Richmond, with sub-title of Marquis of Vicksburg and at the law school. Earl Donelson; General Sherman would have been, Among the various changes and chances in our hu- let us say, the Marquis of Atlanta; Chief Justice Mar- man life it has been my misfortune not to have kept shall would have been made an earl, and Horace Gray up friendships with any but a few of my English ac- and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Massachusetts represen- quaintances. It was not their fault as is clearly shown tatives on the United States Supreme Court, would have by their quick response whenever they were given a been made barons or at least baronets. If Roundell chance to show us hospitality. It was delightful to find Palmer, who conducted the losing side of the Alabama how they welcomed my sons and friends, and when in arbitration at Geneva, Switzerland, was made a baron England in 1920 not only did I see or hear from all those with title of Lord Selborne, surely William M. Evarts, then living of my old friends, but what showed the the chief counsel for the American or winning side, traditions of hospitality most remarkably was to see would have been made the Viscount or the Earl of how the second generation carried it on. I received Windsor, Vermont, and so on. kind notes from several of them and made some week- But to come back to my experience, it was the human end visits and had other invitations I could not ac- side of these delightful people that interested and in- cept. President Hayes offered me, through William structed me, and I never shall forget their hospitality. M. Evarts, the Secretary of State, the position of Let me give a little example in addition to those already Chief Secretary of Legation at either Paris or London related. I received a letter from Mr. Mark J. Stuart, as I might choose, a year after my return to America. an eminent member of the House of Commons, to Had I accepted the offer and chosen London, I should whom I had no letter of introduction and whom I had have had the best opportunity possible for seeing again not even met, saying that he had heard from our mu- my old friends, but the diplomatic service was not then 366 HOSPITABLE ENGLAND N.THE SEVENTIES A SOURCE OF ENGLISH HOSPITALITY 367 5 a career. A change of administration, even with no at some one's room in such and such a college, to meet, change of party, meant a change of all diplomatic offi- let us say, the president of the Oxford Union, or the cers. It was not till some years later, in 1883, that Mr. captain of a boat club, a celebrated cricket player, or a Henry White began his long and honorable diplomatic high honor man. career, and even that was broken by a gap of four years The scouts bring in from the buttery breakfasts of during Cleveland's second administration. one, two, or three courses, usually one, and place them Any good I might do for Uncle Sam on account of on trestles composed of tongs, shovel, and poker in my knowledge of London ways would have been only front of the fire, where it may keep warm till the guests temporary. Therefore, on the advice of my father and arrive. Indeed, it is rather an exception for a man to of Mr. Longfellow, who was about to be my father-in- breakfast alone. Freshmen even are invited to break- law, I declined the offer. fast with upper classmen. Besides the breakfasts in each Notwithstanding the regret I have in not seeing other's rooms there is another custom which has in- them again, the memories of those golden days of duced hospitality among the educated English, and that friendships abroad have remained in the stronghold of is of the vines or desserts after dinner. The dinner in my heart and have been an inspiration in all the work hall is rather meagre and this meagreness is made up for public good I have ever taken a hand in. by delicacies and wines served in the college rooms, to What is the explanation of the wonderful English which they invite friends. hospitality? The hospitality is not vague and general, In America our students either dine in large halls at expressing itself to one and all, but is confined to those the same table with the same men for substantially the who are properly introduced or well known. Beside whole of the year, or form small and exclusive clubs the wealth, the great estates, the large establishments, where they take all meals with the same group day the hunting, fishing, cricket grounds, lawn tennis and after day, and there is no easy hospitality or interchange the stables, which make it easy to entertain guests, is the of companionship at meals as in England. fact that the country life without guests would in many With all the other inducements to hospitality in cases be lonely. But, in addition, the English people Great Britain I think the greatest factor is this univer- seem educated to entertain, and I believe that education sity education in comradeship and conviviality. comes from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Hospitality is not confined to the B.A.'s and M.A.'s Whether by design or accident, the students do not of Oxford and Cambridge. It is a human instinct, breakfast in hall, but in their own rooms, and as they do as testify the earliest literatures sacred and profane. not chum together in the English universities, they Chaucer, before modern Oxford could have blossomed naturally fall into the habit of asking friends in; SO a out, has his hospitable Franklyn, the "newe" St. student - or one who like myself was staying in col- Julian. Shakespeare was not at the universities nor lege - receives a card, or a short note, or just a verbal was the banished Duke in "As You Like It," but how invitation to breakfast at eight-forty-five or nine o'clock sweet the greeting to Orlando, "Sit down and feed and 24015 LONGFELLOW NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 105 BRATTLE STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS FINDING AID FOR THE RICHARD HENRY DANA III (1851-1931) PAPERS, 1797-1947 (BULK DATES: 1860-1915) COLLECTION: LONG 27883 Accessions: LONG-1 LONG-70 recenters PREPARED BY JENNIFER LYONS LAUREN MALCOLM JALIEN G. HOLLISTER DECEMBER 2001 7403 REVISED BY MARGARET WELCH JANUARY 2007 Northeast MUSEUM SERVICES CENTER Richard Henry Dana III Papers- i CONTENTS Preface iii Restrictions V Introduction 1 1 Part 1: Collection Description 3 Scope and Content Note 5 Subcollection and Series Descriptions 10 Part 2: Biographical Data 17 Biographical Notes 19 Genealogical Charts 23 Part 3: Collection Listing 29 Key To Symbols 30 I. Research 31 A. General Materials 31 1. Biographical Materials 31 2. Obituaries and Memorials 31 3. Correspondence 32 4. HWLD and EED Research Notes 32 5. HWLD Collected Materials 32 II. Personal Papers 32 A. Personal Materials 32 1. Diaries 32 2. Academic Life 33 3. Writings and Speeches 33 4. Travel 34 5. Other 34 B. Correspondence 34 1. Outgoing 34 2. Incoming 35 3. Miscellaneous 36 4. Copies 36 C. Legal Career 36 1. Legal Cases 36 2. Associated Materials 41 D. RHD III Legal and Financial Records 41 ii - Richard Henry Dana III Papers E. RHD III Property 42 1. Cambridge 42 2. Manchester 42 F. Dana Family Records 42 1. Correspondence and Accounts 42 2. Trusts 43 3. Individuals 43 4. Properties 44 5. Family Manuscripts 46 6. Publications 46 7. RHD Sr. Writings 46 8. Memorials and Burials 46 G. Reform Activities 47 1. Civil Service Reform 47 2. Ballot Reform 50 3. Tax Reform 50 H. Organizations 51 1. Alumni Affairs 51 2. Cambridge Historical Society 53 3. Citizen's Committee on Charles River Bridges 53 4. Committee on Charles River Dam 53 5. Episcopal Church 53 6. Mayesville Institute 54 7. New England Conservatory 54 8. Republican Party 55 9. Cambridge Casino 55 I. Collected Material 55 J. Edith (Longfellow) Dana 56 K. Helen (Ford) Mumford Dana 56 Subcollection III. Oversize 56 Subcollection IV. Photographic Storage 59 Addendum 60 Appendix: List of Catalog Numbers 61 Bibliography 6 Richard Henry Dana III Papers-- iii PREFACE The Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) Papers was processed by staff at the Northeast Museum Services Center (NMSC). The staff included former SPNEA Archivist Jennifer Lyons, and former SPNEA Catalogers Jalien Hollister and Lauren Malcolm. During FY 2000, this team catalogued 32.3 linear feet (51, 680 items). NMSC staff processed an additional portion in FY 2007. This collection includes materials of Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) [RHD III] and materials related to him collected by his son, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881- 1951)[HWLD], and his sister, Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939) [EED]. The photographs were catalogued in a separate project. The earlier draft finding aid becomes obsolete with this final edition. The catalogers would like to express their gratitude towards staff at the Longfellow National Historic Site for their assistance in carrying out this work. In particular, thanks go to Archives Specialist Anita Israel, former Curator Janice Hodson, and Site Manager Jim Shea. Also, the catalogers would like to thank Michelle Ortwein, former NMSC Curator and Liz Banks, NMSC Senior Archivist for their assistance. This document represents many hours of work recording details about the items herein described. The reader should expect a reasonable degree of human error and consequently rely on personal observation of the items. Biographical Data Richard Henry Dana III Papers -- 19 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) Chronology 1851 Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts 3 January 1865-1870 Attended St. Paul's School in New Hampshire 1870 Entered Harvard College 1874 Graduated Harvard, BA, Class Day Orator Entered Harvard Law School 1875-1876 Traveled abroad in Europe 1877 Completed Harvard Law School 1877 Began law practice with Brooks, Ball & Storey 1878 Married Edith Longfellow (1853-1915) 16 January Joined his father's law practice Helped to organize Associated Charities 1879 Richard Henry Dana IV [Dick] born 1 September (d. 1933) Sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco, leaving 29 October 1880 Returned from California in March Trustee of New England Conservatory 1881 First meeting of Civil Service Reform League Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana [Harry] born 26 January (d. 1950) 1882 Father RHD Jr. died in Rome, Italy 6 January. RHD III afterward addressed as "Junior." 1883 Frances Appleton (Dana) de Rham born 25 May (d. 1933) 1884 Drafted Civil Service Reform Act for Massachusetts Allston Dana born 29 September (d. 1952) 1885 House in Manchester, Massachusetts built 1886 Edmund Trowbridge Dana [Ned] born 25 October (d.1981) 1887 House at 113 Brattle St., Cambridge built 1889 Drafted First Australian Ballot Act to be passed in the United States Trustee of Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge Delia Farley (Dana) Hutchinson born 2 October (d. 1989) 1890 President of Boston YMCA 1891 President of Trustees of New England Conservatory 1895 Article published: "Double Taxation in Massachusetts" 1901 Appointed to the Charles River Basin Commission by the Governor Member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College 1903 Served as Commissioner on the Charles River Dam Committee 1906 First President of the Cambridge Historical Society (until 1916) 1910 Published his father's, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882), speeches in 20 -Richard Henry Dana III Papers Biographical Data Speeches for Stirring Times and Letters to a Son 1911 Retired from law office at Congress Street Elected to Massachusetts Historical Society 1912-1913 Traveled to Europe 1913 Elected President of the National Civil Service Reform League 1915 Edith (Longfellow) Dana died at Manchester 21 July 1920 Traveled to Europe 1921 Published Hospitable England in the Seventies 1922 Married Helen Sherwood (Ford) Mumford Traveled to Europe 1923 Manchester property sold 1931 Died in Cambridge, December 16 Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) Richard Henry Dana III was born January 3, 1851, the fifth child of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882) and Sarah Watson Dana (1814-1907). He was the third male in the family to be named Richard Henry Dana. RHD III was educated at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, Harvard College, class of 1874, and Harvard Law School, 1877. RHD III enjoyed his years at St. Paul's and Harvard. He especially enjoyed his rowing career and maintained an active interest in both institutions throughout his life. He traveled to Europe for a year in 1875-1876 and later printed his travel diary, Hospitable England in the Seventies in 1921. Richard Henry Dana III began his law practice in 1877 with Brooks, Ball & Storey and then joined his father's law practice in Boston at 30 Court St. in 1878. Although he moved his office location several times over the years, J.C. Joseph Flamand initially the "office boy," was a constant and invaluable presence. In 1878 Richard Dana married Edith Longfellow (1853-1915), the second surviving daughter of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Their first child, Richard Henry Dana IV was born in 1879 and in October of that same year Richard Dana sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco. He returned across the continent in March of 1880 and resumed his law practice. Their other children were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1881), Frances Appleton (1883), Allston (1884), Edmund Trowbridge (1886) and Delia Farley (1889). Richard Dana and his wife Edith led a very social life. They enjoyed traveling a great deal and went to Europe several times in addition to trips up and down the eastern seaboard. Upon his return from his California trip, Richard Dana began his life-long dedication to supporting charitable and educational institutions by helping to organize the Associated Charities. Among the many organizations he helped over his lifetime, one of the most prominent was the New England Conservatory of Music of which he served as trustee and eventually president from 1880 on. He also served as trustee and treasurer of the Episcopal Theological Biographical Data Richard Henry Dana III Papers -- 21 School until his death. In 1901 the Governor appointed him to the Charles River Basin Commission. He was the first president of the Cambridge Historical Society and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Richard Dana's interest in Civil Service Reform was evident as early as 1874 when he was eloquent about the topic in his Class Oration as a Harvard undergraduate. 5 He was a popular public figure in the movement and spent a great deal of time traveling to speaking engagements and writing articles. Through his involvement in Civil Service Reform and other reform movements he became acquainted with Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Coolidge and numerous other well-known politicians and reformers. Upon the death of his father in 1882, Richard Dana became the patriarch of the Dana family and acted as legal executor, advisor and arbiter of family affairs. He served as executor of his father's estate and the Elizabeth Ellery (1789-1874) and Sarah Ann (1791-1874) Dana trusts. He spent a good deal of time and effort over the years in publishing his father's speeches, renovating the family tomb, and assisting Charles F. Adams and W.P. Cresson with their biographies. Through his father the family shared in the inheritance of the Dana property in Manchester, Massachusetts where Richard Dana later built a house for himself on Lot C in 1885. His many projects at Manchester included attempts to eradicate the mosquito and the fly. In 1887 he built a house at 113 Brattle St. in Cambridge next door to the Longfellow house on land given to him and Edith by her father. In 1911 he left his law office on Congress St. and removed his papers to his home on Brattle Street. Richard Dana and Edith traveled to Europe for the last time in 1912-1913. Upon their return Richard resumed his active public life and was elected president of the National Civil Service Reform League in 1913. Edith Longfellow died on July 21, 1915 at Manchester after a prolonged illness. Richard Dana was devastated and lonely but gradually resumed many of his interests and traveled to Europe again in 1920. In 1921 he met Mrs. Helen Sherwood (Ford) Mumford of New York City. They were married February 25, 1922 and sailed for Italy in March. Upon their return they lived at 113 Brattle St. in Cambridge, maintained a busy social schedule and were able to travel to Europe every other summer. Richard Dana continued to have an interest in national and world affairs until his death at age eighty on December 16, 1931. 5 Baccalaureate Sermons and Oration and Poem, Harvard University, 1874 (Addendum Box 1, folder 3). Hug me 2. 1931 Our honored friend, who has been our resident for the past year, has asked some of us to tell what we know of the history of our Summer Colony in Seal Harbor or Seal Cove as it was called on the early steamboat maps. It is a gratification to have a share in this work for one who alone can claim that this Earthly Paradise has been his home for thirty- seven consecutive summers. In years, however, he takes off his hat to ,Lane our esteemed citizen, Captain Charles Clement, now approaching eighty- nine. It was his ancestor, John Clement, who established the first home here in 1809. This notable fact was commemorated by our Society when the Village Fountain was dedicated one hundred years after. My part in this historical ensemble is much of it personal and has to do chiefly with the development which we owe to Mr. George B. Cooksey who first came here in 1891. He was attracted to Seal Harbor by what he then miss many ows had heard of its charms from his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Dunham, who spent the Summer here in 1890. Mr. Cooksey's appreciation of the beauty of Seal Herbor and the ossibilities of its future was immediate. His first step was to buy from the Clements, very notel he was stopping the rocky point and adjacent land at the opening of the harbor. This point had till then been called Clements Point and a line of rock cairns, along the hillside now dotted with cottages, guided the occasional summer visitor to it. On this land Mr. Cooksey soon built a charming cottage which stood there till the property was bought by Mr. Dans in 1910. It is worthwhile adding that the money paid by Mr. Cooksey was wisely expended by the Clement brothers, Amos and James, in building the attractive hotel which we now enjoy. My coming with my family to Seal Harbor dates from July 1895. I had .ong known that this Island was the only place where it was possible to escape from the appressively humid heat of the southern Now England summer Then, as a College boy, in the 1860's, 1 was fishing for tro in the Rangeley Lakes of wegtern Maine, Cousins were at Bar Harbor and they brough home enticing tales of the beauty, intense and invigorating air of Mt. Dese rt, also of the saleratus bread and cod or haddock they daily enjoyed. A college professor at Yale, Professor Sumner, who, with others, gave the Glencove Hotel the reputation of being the home of the intellectuals, urged me in 1895 to take a cottage. To my reply that the expense on Mt. Desert Island was too great for a College Professor, he replied that an enterprising gentleman, Mr. Griswold, had acquired some small lots of land the taxes of which had and had built simple cottages on them. I promptly obtained the list and chose the most expensive , the Asq u $450 for the season and in this cottage we lived through the summer of 189 5. Here I must digress, for the benefit of those who know Seal Harbor only in very recent years, by explaning that the Glencove Hotel stood in what is now our Village Green. The hotel was not beautiful, without or wit h- in, consisting of two square wooden buildings connected across the present ravine by a long high bridge. This led to its being called the Cyphen - Mr. Rockefeller, whose many and important gifts to our Community are too well known to need mention, bought the Glencove in 1920, he had it pul ed down and gave the land to the town for a Village Green, It has receive d constant care ever since the beginning, trees and shrubs have been added, and this development, which makes it our joy and pride today we largely ow e to Mrs. Dunham. Across the road to the south is also the beautiful terrace enclosed by rose bushes. As a matter of history it may be added that in 1895 there was a small building in this spot where soft drinks were served. A thirsty pedestrian today might request its disappearance as proving that the world sometimes progresses backwards. Connective digression takes us up Barr Hill to where Mr. Rockefeller' fine house now stands. Its predecessor was so homely that the gentleman Y who built it was grieved to have his brother-in-law. who lived on the hill directly opposite, say, "You may call it the kyrie, 1 call it the Eyesore" later abandoned by its owner it was damaged by lightning. Perhaps because of this condemnation a year or two later it W..S rented to Mr. Gherickee, the then Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A clever gentlemen, full of humor and loved by us all, exclaimed at once,"how fortunate to haves tamoud conductor provided for so dangerous a spot". Apoligizing for these digressions though you will grant the history is nothing if not complete. I resume my narrative: A few days after my arrival in early July 1895, I met Mr. Cooksey, a friend of fifteen years back. He asked me to take a walk with him and learn of his plans for the development of his property. We walked along our eastern hillside, sat down on the rocks at one of the many view points and he told me of his larger purchases of land in Scal Harbor. The most important of these were the 800 acres extending from where we were along the ocean fromt to a point beyond Little Hunter's Beach. The place where we sat he said ne hoped to divide into samll lots, especially for the summi mer- College Professors. His plan unfolded, he asked me will you tak a lot now?" 1 replied, " I surely will"-- this was after a residence of le 38 than a week in Seal Harbor. Professor Rowland of Baltimore, who had already occupied a Griswold Cottage for a year or two joined me; and a little later my brother-in-law Mr. Bristol, also e Matters moved forward at first without delay. Expecting a rapid development, Cooksey had brought his architect here and in a few Days 4 weeks the plan 01 the three cottages on the land chosen were practically complete. Mr. Cooksey's health had been seriously impaired at the time of the silver panic OI 1893. His intense interest in the Seal Harbor development also taxed him. The climax, a tragic one not to be forgotten came with the formal meeting at the Seaside Casino in late August. The hall was crowded with those interested, Presidents Eliot and Gilman and O others spoke warmly of the development plans, but dear Mr. Cooksey took no part, sitting on a front seat with his head bowed in nis nands. A charmir luncheon rollowed at the Cooksey house, all were merry except thos e who knew the situation. That night ur. and hrs. Cooksey left for new York and the next day, or the day after , a teleg am announced that Mr. Cooksey's health had completely broken down and the ne, Mrs. Cooksey, and a physician had left for a y ar's absence. I will only add that Mr. Cooksey finally recovered in great measure. He was able to occupy his cottage again in 1902 and later made occasional visits to Seal Harbor until he died in 1922 The break down of the one who had made plans so wise, broad, and generous was a critical event in the development of Seal Harbor and par - ticularly for us three. However, the situation was promptly saved by the arrival from New York 01 Mr. Cooksey's business partner. He dropped every- thing, came here at once and then and for many subsequent summers devoted himself to the many problems involved in the carrying out of Mr. Cooksey's plans and ever with rare energy and good judgment as will be shown in part later. Rowland, Bristol, and myself had special reason for gratitude to Mr. Stebbins. Although the plans for our cottages were complete, we had no legal hold on the land selected when Mr. Cooksey left us so suddenly. This difficulty, however, was adjusted and the building of our cottages went forward and they were completed in the winter of 1895-96. In june 1896, as the boat carried me and my family along Suttons Island, we looked up to the hillside and saw our house finished. Also, all the furniture was in place 9 as directed, and the fire was burning in the kitchen stove. You smile at these details bu: they simply expresso the care and thoughtfulnessowhich from that time everyone who has settled here received from Mr. Stebbins as long as he was in charge, in fact, for know in how many ways he helps us even today. His official responsibilities, however, ceased when Mr. Rockefeller, in 1926, bought all the property, land and houses, of the Cooksey Realty Company, One minor incident, connected with the building of our three cottages is worth recording as showing the instinctive bravery of the Maine sailor. On December 6, 1895 the vessel from the mills at Bangor, carrying the cypress trim for the three houses, arrived one evening in the harbor, That night a violent wind from the north sprang up, the vessel dragged, or slipped her anchor and started for the open ocean, The two sailors sleeping below were awakened with the scraping against the Cooksey rocks, and remembering that the first Cuty of the sailor is to save life they sprang off to the shore and and were saved for their Families but the Sea Pigeon flew on and she and he r cargo were never heard from again. A duplicate order at Bangor was put here through at once and reached just before the river was closed by ice. A cherished plan of fir. Cooksey's was also the building of the needed roads. The first on to be grappled with was the Sea Cliff Drive, long call ed the Cooksey Drive. At a point near the beginning of this a tablet in the rock at the side tells today of Mr. Cocksey and his work for as. The com- pletion of this road was promised for August 1, 1895 and on that date Mr. Cooksey did in fact drive over it with a horse and a pair of wheels, an im- provised sulky. building MI. Stebbins carried on the road here and at other points, with the 6 situation 83 it is today. Seal Harbor is justly proud of the fact that it alone of the settlement on the "Island of the Desert Mountains" has the open ocean and the ragged cliffs above close at hand. TO these cliffs access has been secured to the general public for all time and not to be disturbed even if future cottages perch on the heights above. The path which most of you know, or should know, leads 11 and down the rocks, and across bridges when called for. it starts into the woods from a pointopposite the end of the Rowland Road, reaches the Ingraham rocks and goes on to Hunter's Beach, & distance of a mile and a half This priceless privilege was secured when Lir. Stebbins obtained from some number of the then property owners the payment of three hundred do lars cach Mr. Stebbins was as active, wise, and considerate in his dealing with the permanent residents as with the summer visitors. This was shown in man cases. One important step accomplished was the grouping of their homes, early scattered, near the beginning of the Jordan Pond Road. The community also o es to him the present location of the village cemetry, retired and most attractive. Its existence is hardly suspected by the many who whirl by on the Jordan Pond Road. The cemetery has been well laid out, planted with shrubs and flowers, and is well cared for. The world has few spots of this kind so satisfying to all, and especially to those who have a personal interest in it. I should like to enlarge on what has been done for Seal Harbor by Dr. McIntire, who asso began his work here in the notable year of 1895. Every- - one knows what the Jordan Pond House is today and what it offers to the guest, but few have followed its wisely planned development year by year from the small building with a single acanty piazza on the west side to what it is t today. Mr. LicIntire has shown from the start a rare appreciation of the needs of the summer visitors. He ministers their wants in more ways than with the ur society also always excellent broiled lobsters. U owes much to him for the work he has done in laying out and keeping in order the paths and trails through the woods and up the hills. In conclusion, you will allow me to boast a little about Seal Harbor-- knowing fairly well the only other , existing nations that may be considered similar in character, namelyvthe coast of Norway and british Columbia, I feel justified in claiming that no where elso in the country can be found a home so beautiful and inspiring in the variety of its scenery, the ocean, forest, hills, and lakes, so invigorating and health giving in its air, and offering so many forms or personal enjoyment on land and sea, as Seal Harbor. The most beautiful single out look out upon the ocean on our Atlantic coast is that from the point where the Champlain Monument stands. 1 hope that each of you may from Seal Harbor the same degree of pleasure and health that it, nas given to 9 one so- favored as I have been. E. S. Dana Memorial Page 1 of 5 Home AmMin GMR RiMG Collectors Corner Directory Short Courses Contacts SECURITY STATEMENT American AVERICA CHYSTALLOGRAPHY MCMXIX Mineralogist Tel Volume 21, pages 173-177, 1936 MEMORIAL OF EDWARD SALISBURY DANA WILLIAM F. FORD, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Edward Salisbury Dana, the Dean of American mineralogists, died on June sixteenth, 1935, at his home in New Haven. In order to appreciate properly his position and influence one must consider briefly the history of his family. The following dates are significant ones, not only in the family records, but in the annals of American science. EDWARD S. DANA 1849-1935 1111 110025 E. S. Dana Memorial Page 2 of 5 BENJAMIN SILLIMAN Born August 8, 1779. Graduated from Yale in 1796. Appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Yale in 1804. Founded the American Journal of Science in 1818. Died November 24, 1861, aged 85. JAMES DWIGHT DANA Born February 12, 1813. Graduated from Yale in 1833. Appointed Assistant in Chemistry at Yale in 1836. Published System of Mineralogy in 1837. Married Henrietta Frances Silliman, June 5, 1844. Became an Editor of American Journal of Science in 1846. Died April 14, 1895, aged 82. (Bibliography of J. D. Dana) EDWARD SALISBURY DANA Born November 16, 1849. Graduated from Yale in 1870. Became an Editor of American Journal of Science in 1875. Published Textbook of Mineralogy in 1877. Published Sixth Edition, System of Mineralogy in 1892. Died June 16, 1935, aged 85. The above is without doubt a unique family record. For more than one hundred years these three men, grandfather, son and grandson, were leaders in American science, not only by their own contributions, but even more through their books and the journal which they established and maintained. It is not necessary to enlarge upon these facts; the bare record is sufficiently eloquent. It was natural that Edward Dana should on graduation from Yale turn his attention to science and in particular to mineralogy. He studied for two years under Professor George J. Brush of the Sheffield Scientific School and then went abroad where he worked for two years at Heidelberg and Vienna. At the latter place he studied with Tschermak, Lang and Schrauf. His stay there must have a most fruitful and pleasant one. He learned the methods of investigation in crystallography and crystal optics, fields in which most of his original investigations were to lie. He also made many friendships which were to endure through the years and which led him to help in the relief of the impoverished Vienna scientists in the dark years after the war. Many members of the Mineralogical Society of America answered Dana's appeals and know personally how he conducted this friendly work. It seems appropriate to record here in part the greeting sent to Dana by the Vienna Academy on his eightieth birthday. "We recognize you as the master and leader of American mineralogists and http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/arc/esdana.htm 1/24/2005 E. S. Dana Memorial Page 3 of 5 we of Vienna may rightfully claim Edward S. Dana as one of ourselves. Since 1873 bonds of personal friendship have been formed between you and a number of physicists and mineralogists in Vienna With this circle of friends you have kept faith during one of the saddest times which Vienna and Austria have ever experienced We all think of you with lasting gratitude." After his stay abroad Dana came back to New Haven and his work at Yale. He took there the M.A. degree in 1874 and the Ph.D. degree in 1876. While his teaching at Yale was largely in physics, at which he was most successful, his scientific investigations and writings were almost entirely concerned with mineralogy. His bibliography is a long one and cannot be given here but will be published shortly in the Transactions of the Geological Society of America. A few comments, however, should be made upon it. He published in 1872 the first paper in America to deal with the investigation of a rock from the petrographic point of view. His doctor's thesis was on "The Trap Rocks of the Connecticut Valley" and was the first important petrographic memoir to be published here. The record shows that he published the results of investigations on a total of at least fifty-five different mineral species. In the sixth edition of the System of Mineralogy the crystallographic axial ratios of the following twenty species are credited to him; beryllonite, chondrodite, columbite, danburite, dickinsonite, eosphorite, fairfieldite, fillowite, herderite, hureaulite, monazite, pectolite, polianite, reddingite, samarskite, stibnite, triploidite, tyrolite, tysonite and willemite. He was in part responsible for the description of ten new species, namely dickinsonite, durdenite, eosphorite, eucryptite, fairfieldite, fillowite, lithiophilite, natrophilite, reddingite and triploidite. From the above one can see that Dana's research was varied and of no inconsiderable amount. It was, however, through his books that he made his greatest contribution to mineralogical science. His first volume, which was published in 1877, was the Textbook of Mineralogy. A book of this type had been planned by his father but ill health intervened and he turned it over to Edward who was only twenty-eight when the book was published. (James Dwight Dana had published the first edition of "The System" when he was twenty-four!) The Textbook is still in active use, the second edition being published in 1898, the third in 1921, and the fourth in 1932. All mineralogists will agree that Dana's greatest contribution to mineralogy and the one upon which his fame securely rests was the publication in 1892 of the sixth edition of the System of Mineralogy. The fifth edition had been published in 1868. There was, therefore, an interval of twenty-four years between the two editions. This period was one of active mineralogical research and a great amount of new data had accumulated during it. The sixth edition was therefore in great part a new book. Further it was in all essentials the work of one man. Dana enlisted clerical help in the recalculation of the crystal angles and in the redrawing of the crystal figures and of course had advice and assistance from a great many mineralogists the world over, but the entire direction and a very large part of the actual work was his alone. It probably took him about ten years, but during this time he was actively engaged in college teaching and administration, and in his duties as an editor of the American Journal of Science. It was a very great burden that he carried in that period and it is not surprising that when it was over his health was http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/arc/esdana.htm 1/24/2005 E. S. Dana Memorial Page 4 of 5 impaired, and during the subsequent years his activities had to be much curtailed. The sixth edition was remarkable in many ways. Its accuracy has astonished all who have used it. There were SO many chances for errors and misprints and SO few have ever been found. The judgment shown was SO keen and well-balanced that mineralogists have frequently referred to it as the "mineralogists" bible." A study of the material included in the paragraph headed REF. at the end of the descriptions of species will show clearly how Dana balanced conflicting ideas and formed his conclusions concerning contradictory data. In many instances he published here the results of his own investigations which had not been printed elsewhere; two instances being the crystallographic data for pectolite and willemite. Considerable material was also supplied by other investigators in advance of publication elsewhere. Unquestionably this book, even today more than forty years after its publication, remains the most important contribution to mineralogical science that has come from America. The American Journal of Science is the oldest scientific magazine in the country. Established by Silliman in 1818, the journal was edited and financially maintained by him and the two Danas until 1926, a period of one hundred and eight years. Edward Dana was its directing force for upward of forty years, and in fact continued an active interest in its affairs until his death. As an editor he made his second most important contribution to American science. Fortunately many American mineralogists at one time or another came into personal contact with Dana. They were familiar with his great charm, his unfailing good humor, his modesty and his delight in being able to offer assistance. He was the most delightful and entertaining companion, full of a quiet humor and ready with an appropriate story or reminiscence. Until very recently he was physically vigorous and delighted in long walks and climbs both about New Haven and among the hills of Mount Desert Island where he had his summer home. For years he was accustomed to ride about the streets of New Haven on a bicycle, and only relinquished the habit when his family protested that his age and the increase in motor traffic made the practice too dangerous. He probably owned an overcoat but the present writer cannot recall ever having seen him wear one. His only concession to winter weather was the occasional wearing of a light sweater under the coat of his suit. With his death Yale and New Haven have lost one of the last of the old-time gentleman scholars who contributed SO largely to their fame. Many honors came his way. We cannot do better here than to quote the concluding paragraph of Professor Schuchert's memoir. 1 "His election as corresponding member of the Vienna Reichsanstalt came in 1874, and this same year he was elected to the Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural. At the age of thirty-four, he was placed on the roster of honorary members of the ancient Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg. Acclaim in his own country came also in that year, with his election to the National Academy of Sciences, the greatest honor that can be given to an American scientist. At his death, he was the second oldest member, the oldest one having been elected in 1883. He was also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston), the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), the http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/arc/esdana.htm 1/24/2005 E. S. Dana Memorial Page 5 of 5 Geological Society of America, and the Physical Society of America; a foreign member (1894) of the Geological Society, London (corresponding member 1888); and a member of the Edinburgh Geological Society, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, the Philosophical Society (Cambridge), and the Vienna Academy. He was honored at the 300th anniversary of the University of Dublin. In 1925, the Mineralogical Society of America elected him Honorary President for life; in 1934 the Mineralogical Club of New York City made him an honorary life member, and the American Museum of Natural History gave him the same distinction. 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Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon Mail Home Tutorials Help [Sign Out, Member Center 1 verizon MAIL Mail Addresses Calendar Notepad Mail For Mobile - Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Folders [Add Edit] Previous Next I Back to Messages Inbox (20) Delete Reply Forward Spam Move Draft This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - as Unread Printable View Sent Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:04:54 -0700 Bulk [Empty] "David Dana" Add to Address Book Add Trash [Empty] From: Mobile Alert My Folders [Hide] Subject: Re: Cornelia Gilder, the Dana Family, & G.B. Dorr Eliz messages To: "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Member Information Dear Ron, Ron Archives (18) A fun surprise to get your inquiry. Attached are some notes, concluding with a Search Shortcuts speculation that Richard Starr Dana could have been the man you seek. My Photos I'm trying to write a biography about Richard Starr Dana's time in China, and My Attachments like the idea that he was brazen enough in the Victorian age to swim in the nude. I've decided to fill holes in the documents biography with fictioinalized accounts of things that happened or could have happened and would love to include that somehow! Please let me know if the attached is any help. Say Hello to Nini for me. DORR in ENGLAND I have no direct reference to the particular trip to England that you cite. However here are some possibilities for you. My ancestors were in a different branch of the Dana family than Richard Henry's. My great great grandfather Richard Perkins Dana (1810- 1894) and his son, Richard Starr Dana (1836-1904) both were very active in the "China Trade." As such, they had many dealings, specifics of which I do not have, with Baring Brothers, London Richard Starr became a partner in Russell & Co.in 1863, the largest and very old Boston based trading firm in China They did work with Goodhue & Co., New York an important Baring agent in the US There is a London connection for these Danas. Jacque Downs' The Golden Ghetto, the most exhaustive treatise on the life American China Trade of which I'm aware, mentions Sullivan Dorr, an early resident 4/20/07 in China (1799) to handle his Boston family's fur trade with the Northwest Coast of America. Is this an ancestor of your man? Sullivan's father, Ebenezer, a Roxbury tanner turned mariner, was one of the earliest to to enter the fur trade. Sullivan Dorr, whose crude spelling and primitive sentence structure betray an imperfect education, sold cargoes, bought and shipped China goods for his relatives in the United States and re-equipped vessels for their return to the Northwest Coast (p.147) Sullivan Dorr returned to about 1812 and "wasted little time in establishing "himself as an http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=5351_4981676_78201_2025_7092 4/30/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net Page 2 of 3 Dorr returned to Boston about 1812 and "wasted little time in establishing "himself as an "important merchant." Downs also mentions Thomas Wren Ward as "probably" the "best known" Baring Bros. agent in the US. Downs remarks that Baring Bros. agents in the US financed the bulk of the American China trade. There is a China trade connection for Dorr. So the brothers may have gone to Baring Bros. with an introduction for financial and personal help with their trip. Richard Starr Dana, resident in China 1858-1868, visited London in 1863 on a return trip to China and did not like the British at all. He returned permanently to New York from China in 1868, age 31. He married in 1872, did not yet have any children. Richard eventually had a home in Lenox Massachusetts He became a banker in New York with Russell & Co. Russell & Co. had extensive relationships with Baring Co., giving Richard Starr business reasons for going to England in T873 He never hesitated to travel. He could have been in London to see to some Baring Bros business and there chanced to met the Dorr Brothers. I like to speculate! The evidence that he joined the Dorr brothers is circumstantial, to be sure. Although he had been recently married, it is entirely possible that Richard Starr Dana - still a young man at 36, could have been the Dana family member who traveled with George B. Dorr in England Having dared to live in China, handled some pretty risky stuff there, and liking to tweak the stuffy British, I sense from his letters (which do not mention Dorr), that he could have been daring enough to swim in the nude - at least in a foreign country and avoiding curious bystanders. Dave Dana Original Message From: ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP To: dtdana@adelphia.net Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:32 PM Subject: Cornelia Gilder, the Dana Family, & G.B. Dorr Dear David, Nini Gilder suggested more than a year ago that I contact you regarding a troublesome detail connected with my research. Finally, I'm heeding her advice. I am presently writing a biography of George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), Harvard graduate (1874), son of Charles Hazen Dorr (1821-1893) and Mary Gray Ward (1820-1901). Mr. Dorr's maternal grandfather (Thomas Wren Ward, 1786-1858) was.the enormously influential American agent representing the London banking house of Barings; his uncle, Samual Gray Ward was a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a founder of the Saturday Club (to which Richard Henry Dana Sr. was admitted in 1873). Now, the issue at hand. While a junior at Harvard (1873) George B. Dorr and his brother William journey to London where they stayed in the Queen's Hotel on a Piccadilly side street. In Dorr's memoirs he says that they then began to further explore the U.K. with "one of the old Dana family of America." Their travels encompassed Oxford, a boat ride down the Thames, a trip to the Isle of Man and bathing nude in the ocean where they became anxious to escape the eyes of curious bystanders. Onto Wales and the Carnarvon ruins and a climb up Mt. Snowdon, Then to York and the great cathedral and with the Summer nearing its end they move onto Paris and the Hotel du Louvre where they stayed several weeks. http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=5351_4981676_78201_2025_709 4/30/2007 Verizon Yahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net Page 3 of 3 Is it possible to determine the identity of this Dana? I've look into the bibliographic evidence for mineralogist Edward Salisbury Dana (1849-1935), librarian and museum director John Cotton Dana (1856-1929), and Richard Henry Dana 3rd ( 1851-1931), motivated largely by the fact that all were contemporaries of the Dorr brothers. Several decades later Dorr would partner with the President of Harvard, Charles W. Eliot, and establish the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations (and the land acquired would become Acadia National Park). One of the founding Trustees (in 1901) was the aforementioned Professor Edward S. Dana, who served as second vice-president of the organization from 1901-1909.; might this alliance have had its roots back in 1873? I have a copy of an August 12, 1931 address given by Professor Dana tracing the development of the summer colony on Mount Desert Island (ME) at Seal Harbor, a document that is highly regarded By MDI historians. I've examined the biographies of Dana family members that appear in the Dictionary of American Biography and combed through Samuel Shapiro's Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1961). / thought that Richard Henry Dana's Hospitable England in the Seventies; the Diary of a Young American, 1875- 1976 (1921) might provide the key but I could find nothing about the Dorrs. In the interest of thoroughness I've also consulted H.W.L. Dana's The Dana Saga (1941), Elizabeth Ellery Dana's The Dana Family in America (1956), and Charles Francis Adams' Richard Henry Dana (1890). I'd appreciate your consideration of these matters and any hints you might be able to offer that might clarify which Dana might have toured England with the Dorr brothers in 1873 and whether any of the Dana family members might have corresponded with Dorr or Ward family members. With best wishes, Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Ron Epp 47 Pond View Drive Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@verizon.net Delete Reply Forward Spam Move Previous Next Back to Messages Save Message Text I Full Headers Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | Copyright/IP Policy I Terms of Service Send Feedback Help NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. hhttp://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=5351_4981676_78201_2025_7092.4/30/2007 Richard Henry Dana, (1879-1933) Architect ILLUSTRATIONS OF HIS WORK SELECTED BY RICHARD H. DANA, JR. With a Foreword by Harmon H. 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