Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . OLD ELM, BOSTON COMMON,rage THE BACK BAY FKOM THE PUBLIC GAKDEN, ISOO. IN OLD BOSTON 321 There they formed the background for themost extraordinary gatherings ever held inan American city. Merely to name those whoread papers, contributed to the discussion orsat quietly listening during the sessions of theRadical Club would be to call again the roll ofthe New England intellectuals. Emerson, whowas quite a regular attendant at the beginningof the clubs career, stopped going as soon asthe m
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . OLD ELM, BOSTON COMMON,rage THE BACK BAY FKOM THE PUBLIC GAKDEN, ISOO. IN OLD BOSTON 321 There they formed the background for themost extraordinary gatherings ever held inan American city. Merely to name those whoread papers, contributed to the discussion orsat quietly listening during the sessions of theRadical Club would be to call again the roll ofthe New England intellectuals. Emerson, whowas quite a regular attendant at the beginningof the clubs career, stopped going as soon asthe meetings were opened to the press becausehe had an unconquerable aversion to beingreported. He never could be brought to believethat interest had anything to do with the desireto know of the deliberations of the club; he setit all down to an improper curiosity whichought to be snubbed instead of humored. Butthose who w^ere then reporters became latervery distinguished in literature. Louise Chan-dler Moulton, whose brilliant accounts of theclubs activities, published in the New YorkTribune, did much to increase its fame andinfluenc
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