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American Antiquarian Society application Archbishop of Canterbury Arthur Lord behalf Bishop of London Bradford's History British Chancellor City of Boston Colony committee Commonwealth of Massachusetts Consistorial and Episcopal Consistory Court copy Court of London Court of St courtesy custody delivered delivery deposited desire Diocese of London document ecclesiastical England Library England Society entries Episcopal Court Excellency the Governor Fulham Palace Governor Bradford Governor of Massachusetts Governor Wolcott Honorable Court Honorable George F Honorable Thomas Francis interest joint convention letter Library at Fulham Lord Bishop Majesty's Major Bradford manu Manuscript Book Massachu Massachusetts Historical Society matter Mayflower monwealth nations official Old South Church original manuscript persons Petition Petitioner Pilgrim Society possession present President and Citizens Prince Library record Registry ROGER WOLCOTT script Senator Hoar sent Society of Plymouth T. F. BAYARD Thomas F Thomas Francis Bayard Thomas Prince tion United William Bradford Winsor
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Page 80 - I think myself more fortunate than all my fellow-citizens, in having the distinguished honor to be the first to stand in your Majesty's royal presence in a diplomatic character; and I shall esteem myself the happiest of men, if I can be instrumental in recommending my country more and more to your Majesty's royal benevolence...
Page 79 - In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. " Done at the city of Washington this second day of October, AD 186.5, and of the Independence of the United States the ninetieth. " ANDREW JOHNSON. " By the President : WILLIAM II. SEWARD,
Page 83 - ... ancient diadem with an air of painful embarrassment. Scott whispered, " Pray, forgive me ;" and turning round at the moment, observed his daughter deadly pale, and leaning by the door. He immediately drew her out of the room, and when the air had somewhat recovered her, walked with her across the Mound to Castle Street. " He never spoke all the way home...
Page 83 - ... worthy gentleman understand his error ; and, respecting the enthusiasm with which he had not been taught to sympathize, he laid down the ancient diadem with an air of painful embarrassment. Scott whispered, "Pray forgive me," and turning round at the moment observed his daughter deadly pale and leaning by the door.
Page 83 - His daughter tells me that her father's conversation had worked her feelings up to such a pitch, that when the lid was again removed, she nearly fainted, and drew back from the circle. As she was retiring, she was startled by his voice exclaiming, in a tone of the deepest emotion, " something between anger and despair," as she expresses it, —
Page 89 - He entered with great interest into the matter, and told me again he would do anything in his power to forward it. When I got home I communicated with Secretary Olney about it, who took a kindly interest in the matter, and wrote to Mr. Bayard that the Administration desired he should do everything in his power to promote the application. The matter was then brought to the attention of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth...
Page 86 - I was travelling, to go to the continent almost immediately, and was disappointed in the hope of an early return to England. So the matter was delayed until about a week before I sailed for home, when I went to Fulham, in the hope at least of seeing the manuscript. I had supposed that it was a quasipublic library, open to general visitors. But I found the bishop was absent. I asked for the librarian, but there was no such officer, and I was told very politely that the library was not open to the...
Page 83 - One of the Commissioners, not quite entering into the solemnity with which Scott regarded this business, had, it seems, made a sort of motion as if he meant to put the crown on the head of one of the young ladies near him, but the voice and aspect of the Poet were more than sufficient to make the worthy gentleman understand his error...
Page 80 - Mayflower," Nov. 11, 1620., the only authentic history of the founding of their Commonwealth; the only authentic history of what we have a right to consider the most important political transaction that has ever taken place on the face of the earth.
Page 80 - I shall esteem myself the happiest of men if I can be instrumental in recommending my country more and more to Your Majesty's royal benevolence, and of restoring an entire esteem, confidence, and affection, or, in better words, the old good nature and the old good humor between people, who, though separated by an ocean, and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood.