Identifier: lifelettersofed02hale (find matches)
Title: The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Edward Everett, 1863-1932
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Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ne were an outdoor man at all,it was because one loved the great world of out-of-doors, and was bound to get there somehow. My father was strongly attached to the moun-tains and other forms of wild nature; to the end ofhis life he remembered with deep pleasure his dayson Mt. Katahdin or Mt. Washington, his experiencein Howes Cave or at Trenton Falls. Even in themidst of the cares and worries of the Civil War thegreat relief was to escape from the city and walkfor a week in the mountains. But he also lovedthe simpler and more particular forms of nature;he was immensely fond of flowers. Among his 1 He wrote to Charles, August 2, i868, Thus I, if I only entertain a circlewith an account of losing my way on Mt. Jefferson, with crawling head down-ward in Schoharie, or with swimming Wissataquic for a lodging, might representmyself as a thorough Kit Carson by as simple an expedient as the omission ofall allusion to twenty-five years of peaceful life on which these high lights areembroidered.
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