FOOTNOTES:
[1] Quoted by Jameson: Historical Writing in America, p. 72, Boston, 1891.
[2] This house was long ago demolished. Its site is now occupied by Plummer Hall, containing a public library.
[3] A very interesting appreciation of President Kirkland is given by Dr. A. P. Peabody in his Harvard Reminiscences (Boston, 1888).
[4] John Quincy Adams was titularly Professor of Rhetoric, but he had been absent for several years on a diplomatic mission in Europe.
[5] The first number appeared in February, 1820; the last in July of the same year.
[6] Her mother had been Miss Hannah Linzee, whose father, Captain Linzee, of the British sloop-of-war Falcon, had tried by heavy cannonading to dislodge Colonel William Prescott from the redoubt at Bunker Hill. The swords of the two had been handed down in their respective families, and now found a peaceful resting-place in young Prescott's "den," where they hung crossed upon the wall above his books.
[7] Professor Jameson mentions two other contemporary instances,—Karl Szaynocha and Prescott's Florentine correspondent, the Marquis Gino Capponi.
[8] Prescott owned two noctographs, but did nearly all of his writing with one, keeping the other in reserve in case the first should suffer accident. One of these two implements is preserved in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[9] See[ ch. vii.]