Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . e in Boston, and the interioris newly remodeled. Librarian, Charles K. Bolton (see Brookline). No. 49. Edmund Quincy (1808-1877). In the thirties, but hishome was at Bankside, in Dedham, where he lived and died, learned in those arts that make a gentleman, to use the words ofhis friend, Lowell. Concerned in all good works as a citi/ien, es-pecially as an opponent of slavery, he also wrote several life of his father, Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) (see Park Street)is a model for charm an
Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . e in Boston, and the interioris newly remodeled. Librarian, Charles K. Bolton (see Brookline). No. 49. Edmund Quincy (1808-1877). In the thirties, but hishome was at Bankside, in Dedham, where he lived and died, learned in those arts that make a gentleman, to use the words ofhis friend, Lowell. Concerned in all good works as a citi/ien, es-pecially as an opponent of slavery, he also wrote several life of his father, Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) (see Park Street)is a model for charm and elegance, while his novel, VVensley, wassaid by Whittled to be the most readable book of its kind sinceHawthornes Blithedale Romance. No. 55. William Hickling Prescott (1706-185:0). From 184.; to1859. His reputation was established when he came to this house,but here he wrote the History of the Conquest of Peru, and History of the Reign of Philip the Second. No other traces ofPrescotts home life in Boston are now in existence. He is buriedunder St. Pauls Church, on Tremont Street. BEACON STREET. HOMi-: OF h. prescott BEACON STREET No. 71. Philip Henry Savage (1868-1899). From 1896 to of Rev. Minot J. Savage (see St. Botolph Street), and a minorpoet of some note and promise. ( First Poems and Fragments; Poems.) No. 132. Clara Endicott Sears ( ). Miss Sears has re-stored and preserved the old house called Fruitlands at Harvard,Mass., Bronson Alcotts Transcendental Experiment of a New has also moved the oldest Shaker House from the HarvardShaker village and placed it near Fruitlands. Both houses are filledwith the original furniture and libraries and are open to the publicfrom one oclock to six oclock iwi. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, andSaturdays, from June to October. These houses are on Miss Searssestate at Harvard, Mass. (Prospect Hill). :\t the Shaker House theShaker Industries are exhibited—all very old and authentic.(Bronson Alcotts Fruitlan
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