Identifier: annalsofiowa09howe_0 (find matches)
Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Publisher: (Des Moines, etc., Iowa State Historical Dept., Division of Historical Museum and Archives, etc.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ne day, I have a brother in Burlington, Iowa,who has been a local judge. Wben you go to Burlington,please call upon him and tell him of the pleasant interviewswe have had. Not long after my arrival at home, I did visitBurlington, and had it in mind that while there I wouldcertainly call to see Judge Phelps. I had spent an evening atthe residence of Col. AV. W. Dodge, the son of Hon. AugustusCaesar Dodge, and at that time a State senator. The eveningwas one during the full moon, and it was almost as light asday. Passing through the little park as I descended the hillI saw a stranger coming in at the opposite corner. It occurredto me at once that this was Judge Phelps, and when I methi in I accosted him and found that my supposition was correct.I told him that I had intended to call upon him, but that thismeeting must suffice as my time was limited. I found him anexceedingly attractive gentleman, who seemed highly please<lwith wliat I had to say about his distinguished brother. Not r
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THE BUIi.DINCi OF AN AUTOGKAIMI COLLI-JCI ION Jl many months later T was (l(Hii)ly pain(?d to learn that ))Oth w<;reremoved by dejitli. I i-ej^retted this most sinccrely, for theyhad ^ivHH me distinet evidenec^s of friendship and l)otli werehonored and nscdul men. The Ambassador was one of thetinest le^al seholars in tlie llnitcnl States and a ))orn diplomat.As a man of o^reat affairs he did not suffer by e()mf)arison withJames Rnssell Lowell. While I was still in En«»-land I had the precious privil(;^eof hearing Spurgeon preach in Exeter Hall. Later he re-sponded to my application and sent me a kind letter, hisphotograph, and several engraved portraits, with some pagesof his manuscript. One of these was the memorandum of asermon he had preached, written on both sides of a page notlarger than ones hand. I was also indebted to George Augus-tus Sala, the distinguished novelist for similar gifts. I ac-quired a military order signed by Sir John Moore whom We buried darkly at dead of

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