Identifier: richardhenrydana00dana (find matches)
Title: Richard Henry Dana, jr. ... speeches in stirring times, and letters to a son
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931, ed
Subjects: Slavery Fugitive slaves
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ving,Verplanck, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Collins, West,Leslie, Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Turner, Thorwaldsenand other ^ painters and authors of, or frequenting, ^ Some journal entries of conversations with this Uncle Edmundare appended to this sketch. ^ It may be suggested that I should have included Keats, Shelley, andByron. Sweetser, in his Washington Allston, quotes Vanderlyn as tellinghow Allston frequented the famous Cafe Greco in Rome with Turnerand Fenimore Cooper in 1805, and adds, There, too, were to be seenShelley, Keats, and Byron. This is a mistake if it means they were tobe seen there in 1805, the only year Allston was in Rome, for Shelley wasborn in 1792 and would have been but thirteen years old, and did notleave England for Italy until 1818; Keats was born in 1795, and was butten years old in 1805, and set sail for Italy in 1820; and Byrons firsttrip to Italy was in 1809. Allston may have met them in England beforehe returned to America in 1818, but of this we have no record.
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y^c^. ^c^^i^ J/7S> -W43 INTRODUCTORY SKETCH 9 the old world. He sent and received letters fromsome of them while he resided in Cambridge. All thismade such men seem real, while Allstons charm, sofascinating to his associates, made a young man likehis nephew, Dana, fall in love with the humanities.All my childish notions of Europe, writes Mr.Dana, on the death of his Uncle Edmund in 1859,*were derived from him and Mr. Allston and myUncle Francis. From them I heard of Pitt and Fox,of Nelson, of Mrs. Siddons, John Philip Kemble,Coleridge and Wordsworth and the painters. At hisroom, on the green, in the old Trowbridge home, Nedand I used to spend evenings listening to him andAllston and such chance visitors as gathered there. Miss Charlotte Dana, my fathers elder sister, wasa woman of remarkable literary and philosophicalmind, wuth rare musical taste and discrimination; andhis brother, Edmund, first scholar of his class at Bur-lington College, Vermont, a student for many years atHeidel

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