Records and papers of the New London county historical society .. . The Reveries of aBachelor and Dream Life were then household words among us,and Ik Marvel was to me. and to a host of others, a name to conjurewith, as it .still is and will be as long as such a true .soul and true artistcan touch the chords of this life of ours as he has touched them. At the time I .speak of he had reached, perhaps, the age of forty,had broken away from all expectation or even dread of hampering hisgenius by a professional life, and had established his reputation andstanding among the literary lights of the d
Records and papers of the New London county historical society .. . The Reveries of aBachelor and Dream Life were then household words among us,and Ik Marvel was to me. and to a host of others, a name to conjurewith, as it .still is and will be as long as such a true .soul and true artistcan touch the chords of this life of ours as he has touched them. At the time I .speak of he had reached, perhaps, the age of forty,had broken away from all expectation or even dread of hampering hisgenius by a professional life, and had established his reputation andstanding among the literary lights of the day. How well this careersuited the rather stern Cahinistic views of his father, the Mitchell, we shall never learn from the .son. If it was may surmise that opposition meant encouragement ni this case for;there were beautiful, ennobling, lofty thoughts in that Apollo-like headthat had to be uttered. The mans own benevolent love of his fellow-men could not allow the world to be .so much poorer as it would havebeen without the Oram Min IN MEMORIAM. 2 2., His life stands in rather marked contrast to the more stirring Stedman and Oilman, and yet we would not have it here in Norwich on the twelfth of April, 1822; jjraduated fromYale as valedictorian in 1841, he passed three years of his life in thepursuit which he loved to the end of his days, farminj^. In , hewent to FAirope. visitinjr Enjjland, the Isle of Jersey, France and Hoiland, with the result, among other thinj^s, of ffivint; us his first hook. Fresh Gleanings, published in 1847. And now comes a taste of the study of law. al a time when theFrench revolution of 1848 is just breaking out. As he says in hisdedicatory letter to The Battle Summer : I conjured up images of the New Order, and the images doggedme in the streets, and at my desk, and made my sleep—a blurred the type of , and made the mazes of Chitty tenfo
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