John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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       Oliver Wendell Holmes

      John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664575524

Table of Contents

       Volume I.

       I. 1814-1827. To AEt. 13.

       BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS.

       II. 1827-1831. AEt. 13-17.

       COLLEGE LIFE.

       III. 1832-1833. AEt. 18-19.

       STUDY AND TRAVEL IN EUROPE.

       IV. 1834-1839. 2ET. 20-25.

       V. 1841-1842. AEt. 27-28.

       VI. 1844. AEt. 30.

       LETTER TO PARK BENJAMIN.—POLITICAL VIEWS AND FEELINGS.

       VII. 1845-1847. AEt. 31-33.

       VIII. 1847-1849. AEt. 33-35.

       IX. 1850. AEt. 36.

       PLAN OF A HISTORY.—LETTERS.

       X. 1851-1856. AEt. 37-42.

       HISTORICAL STUDIES IN EUROPE.—LETTER FROM BRUSSELS.

       XI. 1856-1857. AEt. 42-43.

       XII. 1856-1857. AEt. 42-43.

       VISIT TO AMERICA.—RESIDENCE IN BOYLSTON PLACE.

       XIII. 1858-1860. AEt. 44-46.

       RETURN TO ENGLAND.—SOCIAL RELATIONS.—LADY HARCOURT'S LETTER.

       XIV. 1859. AEt. 45.

       XV. 1860. AT. 46.

       Volume II.

       XVI. 1860-1866. AEt. 46-52.

       XVII. 1861-1863. AEt. 47-49.

       LETTERS FROM VIENNA.

       XVIII. 1866-1867. AEt. 52-43.

       RESIGNATION OF HIS OFFICE.—CAUSES OF HIS RESIGNATION.

       XIX. 1867-1868. AEt. 53-54.

       XX. 1868-1869. AEt. 54-55.

       XXI. 1869-1870. AEt. 55-56.

       RECALL FROM THE ENGLISH MISSION.—ITS ALLEGED AND ITS PROBABLE REASONS.

       Volume III.

       XXII. 1874. AEt. 60.

       “LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD.”—CRITICISMS.—GROEN VAN PRINSTERER.

       XXIII. 1874-1877. AEt. 60-63.

       XXIV. CONCLUSION.

       HIS CHARACTER.—HIS LABORS.—HIS REWARD.

       APPENDIX.

       A.

Volume I.

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I. 1814–1827. To AEt. 13.

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BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS.

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      John Motley, the great-grandfather of the subject of this Memoir, came in the earlier part of the last century from Belfast in Ireland to Falmouth, now Portland, in the District, now the State of Maine. He was twice married, and had ten children, four of the first marriage and six of the last. Thomas, the youngest son by his first wife, married Emma, a daughter of John Wait, the first Sheriff of Cumberland County under the government of the United States. Two of their seven sons, Thomas and Edward, removed from Portland to Boston in 1802 and