Mrs Samuel Ripley

Author : Sarah Alden Ripley
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ISBN 13 : 9781331110750
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book Mrs. Samuel Ripley written by Sarah Alden Ripley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mrs. Samuel Ripley: Letters to Ralph Waldo Emerson, His Sister, and Other Noted People New England A good dictionary of Latin or Greek did not exist in English; editions of the ancient authors were rare and often very poor, while of the modern languages, except the French, scarcely anything was known in all this region. But the difficulties in the way did not prevent Mrs. Ripley from acquiring rapidly, and with sufficient correctness, a knowledge of the Latin, Greek, French, and Italian languages, and subsequently the German; with the literature of all which she became familiar, and kept up this familiarity till her failing strength made study, and even reading, irksome." Wherever it is possible, the editor will avail herself of the reminiscences of Mrs. Ripley's friends in giving such explanation as is necessary for connecting the different series of letters with each other. But the letters themselves Will best report the life of the writer. Sarah Alden Bradford was born in Boston, July 31, 1793, and was the eldest child of Captain Gamaliel Bradford. Two brothers followed her, Gamaliel, afterwards a well-known physician and citizen of Boston, and Daniel, who studied law, and died early in Mississippi. Then followed two sisters, Martha, afterwards the wife of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, of Concord, Massachusetts, and Margaret, the wife of Mr. Seth Ames, now one of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. George, her youngest brother, whom she almost wholly educated up to the time when he entered Harvard College, and Hannah, her youngest sister, who was the wife and is now the widow of the late Mr. A. H. Fiske, a prominent lawyer in Boston, completed the number of seven children, to the three youngest of whom Sarah stood in the place of a mother: her own children were not nearer to her heart. Her father, who was a sea-captain, was often absent on voyages, and her mother's delicate health gave to the eldest daughter, as she grew up, a large share in the care of this numerous family. The youngest brother and sister still survive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.