school. He spells and reads very well. He also can add and
multiply numbers. His conduct last quarter was very correct
and amiable."
Life in the Longfellow home was delightful. Samuel Longfellow, the
poet's brother, has given a pleasing picture:
"In the evenings the children gathered with their books and
slates round the table in the family sitting room. The
silence would be broken for a minute by the long, mysterious
blast of a horn announcing the arrival in town of the evening
mail, then the rattle of its passing wheels, then silence
again, save the singing of the wood fire. Studies over, there
would be games till bedtime. If these became too noisy, or
the father had brought home his law papers from the office,
enjoining strictest quiet, then there was flight to another
room--perhaps, in winter, to the kitchen, where hung the
crane over the coals in the broad old fireplace, upon whose
iron back a fish forever baked in effigy.
"When bedtime came, it was hard to leave the warm fire to go
up into the unwarmed bedrooms; still harder next morning to
get up out of the comfortable feather beds and break the ice
in the pitchers for washing. But hardship made hardihood. In
summer it was pleasant enough to look out from the upper
windows; those of the boys' room looked out over the Cove and
the farms and woodlands toward Mount Washington, full in view
on the western horizon; while the eastern chambers commanded
a then unobstructed view of the bay, White Head, Port
Prebble, and the lighthouse on Cape Elizabeth."
One day in 1820, when the family was gathered about the fire, Henry
was on tiptoe with eager excitement. He had written a poem and had
sent it to The Portland _Gazette_. Would it be in the paper which his
father had in his hand as he seated himself before the fire?
Robertson, in his life of the poet, has described those anxious
moments:
"How carefully his father unfolded the damp sheet, and how
carefully he dried it at the fire ere beginning to read it!
And how much foreign news there seemed to be in it! At last
Henry and a sympathetic sister who shared his secret,
obtained a peep over their parent's shoulder--and the poem
was there!"
There are sixteen rooms in the old house. In Henry's day these rooms
were heated by eight fireplaces, which consumed thirty cords of wood
during the long winter. On the first floor are the great living-room,
the kitchen with its old fireplace, and the den, once the dining-room.
On the desk still shown in this room Longfellow wrote, in 1841, "The
Rainy Day," whose opening lines are:
"The day is cold, and dark, and dreary,
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary."
Into the ground floor rooms have been gathered many relics of the days
when the poet was a boy. The four rooms of the second floor are also
full of mementoes. But the most interesting part of the house is the
third story, where there are seven rooms. To this floor the four
children made their way on summer nights when the long hours of
daylight invited them to stay up longer, and on winter evenings, when
the fire downstairs seemed far more inviting than the cold floors and
the colder sheets.
One of these rooms is pointed out as the poet's chamber. Here he wrote
many of his earlier poems. Among these was "The Lighthouse." In this
he described sights in which he delighted, sights the lighthouse daily
witnessed:
"And the great ships sail outward and return
Bending and bowing o'er the billowing swell,
And ever joyful as they see it burn,
They wave their silent welcome and farewell.
"'Sail on,' it says, 'sail on, ye stately ships!
And with your floating bridge the ocean span;
Be mine to guard the light from all eclipse,
Be yours to bring man nearer unto man.'"
During the years after 1843, when Longfellow bought the Craigie House
at Cambridge, his thoughts turned back with longing to the old home
and the old town, and he wrote:
"Often I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of the dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me."
For nineteen years after the poet's death his sister Ann, Mrs. Pierce,
lived in the old home. When she died, in 1901, she deeded it to the
Maine Historical Society, that the place might be made a permanent
memorial of the life of The Children's Poet.
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INDEX
Abraham Lincoln House, Springfield, Illinois, 369
Acrostic, 23
Adams House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 44
Adams, Abigail, 20, 48, 230
Adams, John, 20, 24, 25, 44, 45, 47, 52, 150, 160, 226, 230, 305,
329
Adams, John Quincy, 45, 47, 48, 232
Adams, Samuel, 20, 26, 27
Alamo, the, San Antonio, Texas, 347
Alamo, battle of the, 348
Alcott, Bronson, 64
American Revolution, Daughters of the, 125, 377, 381
_American Standard_, Richmond, Virginia, 295
Amesbury, Massachusetts, 56
Amstel House, New Castle, Delaware, 205
Andros, Governor, 19, 34, 35
Annapolis, Maryland, 226
Arlington, Virginia, 246
Asbury, Bishop Francis, 244
Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, 355
Aubrey, William, 148
Audubon, John James, 187
Bakewell, Mary, 190
Bell, Mary, mother of George Washington, 251
Bells of St. Philip's, romance of the, 334
Bennet-Boardman House, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69
Bennet, Samuel, 70
Berrian, John, 137
Biglow Papers, 38
Bill of Rights, Virginia's, 284
"Birds of America," Audubon's preparation for, 190
Blair, Rev. James, 289, 291
Boardman, Abijah, 71
Boone, Daniel, 360
Boonesborough, Kentucky, 360
Boston, Brattle Street meeting, 29
fire of 1761, 30
_Gazette_, 30
Massacre, 19, 31
_News Letter_, 28
North Church, 27
North Square, 28
Old South Church, 31
Port Bill, 25, 73, 271
Tea Party, 24, 31, 34, 37, 68, 73
Boudinot, Elias, 43, 120
Braddock, General, 115, 253
Braintree, Massachusetts, 46
Brandon, Virginia, 281
Breck, Samuel, 183
Brewton, Miles, 336
Brick Capitol, the, 228
British at Monticello, 324
Broadhearth, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69
Broadstreet, Simon, 69
Brown, Richard, 82
Brown University, 83
Bruton Parish, Virginia, 288
Budden, Captain, 165
Bunker Hill, 26, 68
Burgoyne, General, 34, 179, 391
Burlington, New Jersey, 226
Burr, Aaron, 90, 131, 394
Byrd, Evelyn, 279
Cabildo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 343
Cabot, Arthur, 37
Caldwell, New Jersey, church at, 119
Caldwell, Rev. James, 119
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36, 73
Campfield House, Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Canonicus, 81
Capitol at Washington, 225
Carleton, Sir Guy, 108, 110
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, 149
Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, 149
Carroll, Charles, 216
Carter, Elizabeth Hill, 279
Carter, Landon, 278
Carter's Grove, Virginia, 280
Cartwright, Peter, 352
Castle at Fort Niagara, New York, 386
Chaplains: James Caldwell, 139
George Duffield, 160
Charles River, 27
Charleston, Massachusetts, 27
Chastellux, Marquis de, 107, 279, 324
Chew, Benjamin, Jr., 159
Chew, Joseph, 93
Chew, Samuel, 156
Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, 249
Christ Church, Philadelphia, 153, 199
Christmas, the first, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 197
Church furnishings, primitive, 95, 121
Churches: Old North, Boston, 27, 32;
Old South, Boston, 20, 24, 32;
King's Chapel, Boston, 32;
West, Boston, 37
Old South, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 75
First Baptist, Providence, Rhode Island, 80
St. Paul's Chapel, New York, 95
St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London, 95
Trinity Church, New York, 96
Caldwell, New Jersey, 119
Old Tennent, Freehold, New Jersey, 122
Springfield Meeting House, New Jersey, 138
St. Peter's, Philadelphia, 153
Christ Church Philadelphia, 153
Old Pine Street, Philadelphia, 159
Norriton Presbyterian, 172
Moravian at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 196
Emmanuel, New Castle, Delaware, 204
Presbyterian, New Castle, Delaware, 205
Rehoboth, Delaware, 211
Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, 277, 294
Pohick, Virginia, 249, 311
St. John's, Richmond, 264
Bruton Parish, Virginia, 288
Monumental, Richmond, Virginia, 277, 294
Pohick Church, Virginia, 311
St. Luke's, Smithfield, Virginia, 318
St. Peter's, New Kent County, Virginia, 318
St. Michael's, Charleston, S. C., 333
Huguenot, Charleston, South Carolina, 333
St. Philip's, Charleston, South Carolina, 333, 340
Independent, Savannah, Georgia, 340
Old Stone Church, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 386
Clark, George Rogers, 360
Clay, Henry, 308, 355, 383
_Clermont_, the, 234
Cleveland, Stephen Grover, 122
Clinton, General George, 107
Clinton, Sir Henry, 337
Cliveden, Germantown, Philadelphia, 156
Clock on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 166
Coddington, William, 49
College of New Jersey, 130, 297
College Customs at Nassau Hall, 130
Collins, Varnum Lansing, 130
Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, 53
Concord, Massachusetts, 26, 27
Congress at Princeton, New Jersey, 133
Constitutional Convention of 1787, 168
Continental Congress, 83, 93, 150
Conway Cabal, 182
Cordale, Thomas, 213
Cornwallis, Lord, 134, 293
Council of Safety, Philadelphia, 172, 193
Courtship of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, 128
Crab Orchard, Kentucky, 360
Craigie, Andrew, 41
Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 40, 403
Crockett, David, 350
Crown Point, 23
Cumberland Road, 384
Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 245
Curtis, George William, 64
Custis, George Washington Parke, 246, 255
Custis, Nelly, 219
_Daily Advertiser_, New York, 87
_Daily American Advertiser_, Philadelphia, 196
_Dartmouth_, ship, 24
Daughters of the American Revolution, 90, 377, 381
Daughters of the War of 1812, 390
Decatur, Stephen, 154
Declaration of Independence, 37, 48, 132, 167, 216, 325
Dent, Fred, 362
Desecration of Carpenters' Hall, 152
Desecration of the Capitol, 229
Dexter, Thomas, 69
Diaries:
of John Tudor, 19
of Albigence Waldo, 182
of George Washington, 21, 89, 218, 313
of John Adams, 45
of Robert Breck, 184
of Tench Tilghman, 392
Dix, Dr. Morgan, 96
Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts, 68
Doughoregan Manor, Maryland, 216
Dowry of pine-tree shillings, 50
Duche, Rev. Jacob, 150, 154
Duffield, Rev. George, 160
Dunlap, William, 137
Du Ponceau, Peter S., 176
Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56
Duston, Hannah, 56
Duston, Thomas, 56
East India Company, 31
Eden, Governor Robert, 221
Edwards, Jonathan, 75
Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, 120, 139
Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 33
Emlen House, Pennsylvania, 178
Emmanuel Church, Newcastle, Delaware, 204
Everett, Edward, 41
Expenses in raising the Tower of the State House, Philadelphia,
164
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 148
Faneuil, Andrew, 28
Faneuil, Peter, 28, 35
Faneuil Hall, Boston, 20, 28, 30, 31, 34
Fatlands, near Philadelphia, 187
Federal District, location of the, 226
Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 54
First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 80
Fitch, John, 234
Flag, American, 89
Flag, first American in British waters, 78
Flint, Ruth, 54
Flynt, Tutor, 51
Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Forks of the Delaware, 196
Fort Washington, New York City, 89
Fort William and Mary, 26
Fox, George, 212
Franklin, Benjamin, 34, 52, 97, 115, 172, 235, 392, 399
Fraunces, Samuel, 98
Fraunces' Tavern, New York, 97
Freeman, Rev. James, 36
"From Greenland's Icy Mountains," 342
Gage, General, 37, 43
Gano, Rev. Stephen, 83
Garrison, William Lloyd, 22, 55
_Gazette_, Boston, 30
_Gazette_, Essex, 25
_Gazette_, New York, 95, 99
_Gazette of the United States_, 256
_Gazette_, Portland, Maine, 402
_Gazette_, Williamsburg, Virginia, 262
Germantown, battle of, 157, 180
Germantown, Pennsylvania, 226
Gerry, Elbridge, 37, 73
Girard College, Philadelphia, 229
Glover, Colonel, 42
Grant, Ulysses S., 362
Green, General, 42
Greenway, Virginia, 257
_Griffon_, building of the, 387
Gunston Hall, Virginia, 281
Hale, Edward Everett, 37
Hallet, Stephen L., 226
Hamilton, Alexander, 100, 127, 393
Hamilton, Allan MacLane, 101
Hancock, John, 20, 24, 26, 27, 34, 45, 52, 53
Hanover Court House, Virginia, 262
"Hardscrabble," St. Louis, Missouri, 363
Harlem Heights, battle of, 88
Harmar, Fort, 379
Harrison, Benjamin, 263, 281
Harrison Mansion, the, Vincennes, Indiana, 374
Harrison, William Henry, 360, 374
Harte, Bret, 140
Harvard College, 38
Hasbrouck, Jonathan, 107
Haverhill Historical Society, 60
Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 40, 61
Hay, Henry Hanby, 205
Headquarters: Washington's at Roger Morris House, New York, 88
Washington's at Richmond Hill, New York, 99
Washington's at Van Cortlandt House, New York, 105
Washington's at Newburgh, New York, 107.
Washington's at Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Washington's at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 134
Washington's at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 137
Washington's at Valley Forge, 174
Washington's at Pennypacker's Mills, Dawesfield, and Emlen
House, 178
Heijt, Hans Joest, 178
Henricopolis, Virginia, 266
Henry, Patrick, 264, 266, 268, 271, 283, 285, 290, 305, 309, 314
Henry, William, 179
_Herald_, the San Antonio, Texas, 348
Hermitage, The, Nashville, Tennessee, 351
Hoban, James, architect of White House, 227, 230
Hodgson, Adam, 219.
Hollyman, Ezekiel, 81
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 52, 53
Honor System, the, in William and Mary College, 294
Hospitality: at Montpelier, Virginia, 299
at Oak Hill, Virginia, 303
at Red Hill, Virginia, 306
at Mount Airy, Virginia, 315
at Monticello, 325
at The Hermitage, 353
at Ashland, Kentucky, 357
at the Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 394
Hough, Atherton, 50
House of Seven Gables, 41
Houses: Paul Revere's, Boston, Massachusetts, 23
Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 36
Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 40, 403
Adams House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 44
Quincy Mansion, Quincy, Massachusetts, 49
Fernside Farm, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 54
Duston Garrison House, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 56
The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts, 61
The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, 61
Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts, 66
Bennet-Boardman, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69
Broadhearth, Saugus, Massachusetts, 69
Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72
Morris-Jumel House, New York City, 87
Philipse Manor, Yonkers, New York, 91, 105
The Grange, New York City, 100
Van Cortlandt, New York City, 105
Hasbrouck, Newburgh, New York, 106
Franklin Palace, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 115
Ford Mansion, Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Campfield, Morristown, New Jersey, 126
Morven, the Mercer House and Washington's Headquarters at Rocky
Hill, New Jersey, 134
Letitia Penn, Philadelphia, 145
Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, 147
Cliveden, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 156
David Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, 170
Isaac Potts, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 175
Pennypacker's Mills, Pennsylvania, 178
Dawesfield, Pennsylvania, 178
Sweetbrier, Philadelphia, 183
Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, 187
Fatlands, Pennsylvania, 187
Waynesborough, Paoli, Pennsylvania, 192
Amstel, New Castle, Delaware, 205
George Read's, New Castle, Delaware, 207
Ridgely, Dover, Delaware, 208
Doughoregan Manor, Maryland, 216
Upton Scott, Annapolis, Maryland, 220
White House, Washington, 230, 236
Octagon, Washington, 231, 234, 236, 317
Mt. Airy, Virginia, 234, 314
Mt. Vernon, Virginia, 241
Arlington, Virginia, 246
Mary Washington's, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 251
Pine Grove, Virginia, 253
Kenmore, Virginia, 253
Greenway, Virginia, 257
Sherwood Forest, Virginia, 257
Nelson, Yorktown, Virginia, 270
Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia, 270
John Marshall's, Richmond, Virginia, 274
Sabine Hall, Virginia, 278
Westover, Virginia, 278
Shirley, Virginia, 280
Carter's Grove, Virginia, 280
Brandon, Virginia, 281
Gunston Hall, Virginia, 281
Montpelier, Virginia, 296
Shadwell, Virginia, 297, 322
Oak Hill, Virginia, 301
Red Hill, Virginia, 305
Monticello, Virginia, 322
Rebecca Motte's, Charleston, South Carolina, 336
Pringle House, Charleston, 336
Hermitage, Nashville, Tennessee, 351
Ashland, Lexington, Kentucky, 355
Whitley's Station, Kentucky, 359
White Haven, St. Louis, Missouri, 362
"Hardscrabble," St. Louis, Missouri, 363
Abraham Lincoln's, Springfield, Illinois, 369
Harrison Mansion, Vincennes, Indiana, 374
Rufus Putnam's House, Marietta, Ohio, 377
Monument Place, Elm Grove, West Virginia, 381
Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York, 391
Wentworth House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 395
Warner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 399
Longfellow House, Portland, Maine, 400
Houston, Sam, 347
Hovey, Dr. H. C., 77
Howe, Lord, 95, 192
Huguenot Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 335
Hull, Hannah, 50
Hutchinson, Ann, 50
Independence Bell, 169, 199
Independence, The Declaration of, 20
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 151, 162
Independent Church, Savannah, Georgia, 340
Indians, attacked by the, 58, 361, 382
Institute of American Architects, 238
Jackson, Andrew, 233, 347, 351
James River Canal Company, 285
Jamestown, Virginia, 288
Jay, John, 98
Jefferson, Thomas, 170, 173, 260, 272, 294, 297, 299, 301, 322,
326
Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 72
John Marshall's House, Richmond, Virginia, 274
Johns, Kensey, 206
Johnson, Nicholas, 78
_Journal and General Advertiser_, New York, 95
_Journal_, Springfield, Illinois, 372
Jumel-Burr, Madam, 90
Jumel, Stephen, 90
Kasimir, Fort, Delaware, 203
Kenmore, Virginia, 253
Kent, Chancellor, 103
_Kentucke Gazette_, 355
Key, Francis Scott, 222
Kidd, Captain, 92
King, Washington asked to become, 108
King's Chapel, Boston, 32
Kingston, New York, 226
Knyphausen, General, 138, 194
Lafayette, Marquis de, 107, 193, 199, 256, 296, 299, 304, 346,
353, 381
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 227
Leader, Richard, 69
Lee, Jeremiah, 72
Lee, Richard Henry, 124, 244
Lee, Robert E., 246, 280, 287
"Lehigh, House on the," 197
Letitia Penn House, Philadelphia, 145
Lexington, battle of, 78, 166
Lexington, Massachusetts, 26, 27, 73
_Liberator, The_, 22
Liberty Bell, 169, 199
Lidgett, Mrs. Elizabeth, 67
_Lightning_, ship, 333
Lincoln, Abraham, 230, 233, 369, 371, 372
_Little Pilgrim, The_ newspaper, 54
Livingston, Robert R., 98
Logan, James, 148
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 40, 396, 400
Longfellow, Mrs. Henry Wadsworth, 41
Lossing, Benson J., 152
Lottery for church building purposes, 159
Louisiana, 191
Louisiana Purchase, 294
Louisiana transferred to the United States, 344
Lowell, General Charles Russell, 38
Lowell, James Jackson, 38
Lowell, James Russell, 36, 37