Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . Sargent and to the gentle stimulusof the home in which it met. One habituehas spoken of the beautiful old harp in thecorner of the spacious parlors and, on thewall, the life-size picture of Mr. Sargentsmother playing upon it; of the Gobelin tapestryand other famous relics of Pariss splendor andsorrow during the sad days of 1789. All thefurnishings of the old parlors came originallyfrom the Tuileries and were sent over by Swan, an ancestor of the Sargents,and the close friend and finan
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . Sargent and to the gentle stimulusof the home in which it met. One habituehas spoken of the beautiful old harp in thecorner of the spacious parlors and, on thewall, the life-size picture of Mr. Sargentsmother playing upon it; of the Gobelin tapestryand other famous relics of Pariss splendor andsorrow during the sad days of 1789. All thefurnishings of the old parlors came originallyfrom the Tuileries and were sent over by Swan, an ancestor of the Sargents,and the close friend and financial agent of thenobility and royalty in France. Two shipswere loaded with these furnishings the purposein sending them being to equip suitable dwellingplaces in America for many of the nobility whowere to escape from France and take temporaryharbor here. The plan miscarried and the con-tents of the first ship found their way, long after-wards, to the parlor of the house or ChestnutStreet. ^ Mrs. Sargent died at the New York residence of her son, Frank-lin Haven Sargent, May 31, 1904, aged
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