. Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship. houses, and heard its names pronounced with acertain consideration, which I dare say was as muchtheir due in Salem as it could be anywhere. Thenames were all strange, and all indifferent to me, butthose fine square wooden mansions, of a tasteful archi-tecture, and a pale buff-color, withdrawing themselvesin quiet reserve from the quiet street, gave me an im-pression of family as an actuality and a force whichI had never had before, but which no Westerner canyet understand the East without taking into
. Literary friends and acquaintance : a personal retrospect of American authorship. houses, and heard its names pronounced with acertain consideration, which I dare say was as muchtheir due in Salem as it could be anywhere. Thenames were all strange, and all indifferent to me, butthose fine square wooden mansions, of a tasteful archi-tecture, and a pale buff-color, withdrawing themselvesin quiet reserve from the quiet street, gave me an im-pression of family as an actuality and a force whichI had never had before, but which no Westerner canyet understand the East without taking into do not suppose that I conceived of family as a factof vital import then; I think I rather regarded it asa color to be used in any aesthetic study of the localconditions. I am not sure that I valued it more evenfor literary purposes, than the steeple which the cap-tain pointed out as the first and last thing he saw whenhe came and went on his long voyages, or than thegreat palm-oil casks, which he showed me, and whicliI related to the tree that stood Auf brennender \ 1 ^S^:
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