Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 [electronic resource] : being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school . lelength by those lofty and broad spreading elms for which some of thetowns of Connecticutt was noted. In the warm dajs of summer, andin these beautiful and cloudless sunsets, like the day in which I hadfirst seen it, most of the young people would be on the streets, andamong them those of the students who, like myself, were lovers ofbeauty and of scenery. Owing to my introduction to society, whichis always a great benefit to young men of any sense, I was
Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 [electronic resource] : being the history of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield school . lelength by those lofty and broad spreading elms for which some of thetowns of Connecticutt was noted. In the warm dajs of summer, andin these beautiful and cloudless sunsets, like the day in which I hadfirst seen it, most of the young people would be on the streets, andamong them those of the students who, like myself, were lovers ofbeauty and of scenery. Owing to my introduction to society, whichis always a great benefit to young men of any sense, I was soonacquainted with the best families and my afternoon walks, as well asmy evening visits, often led me among those distinguished in beauty,grace and position. One of my temptations to an afternoon walk wasto meet the girls, who, like ourselves, were often seen taking theirdaily walk. Among these, were the TVolcotts, the Demings, theTallmadges, the Landons and Miss Peck, who afterwards became mywife. . There were more than fifty law students boarding in Litchfield,many of them of wealthy families, and many of them from the Pl. IX.— Lucy Sheldon (Mrs. Thekon Ueach)From a miniature by Dickinson
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