The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale . ts speeches aloud. But thatadvances slowly. In the evening there is almostalways music and I am in bed by nine must not be anxious about me. I sleep well,eat well, and wonder to think that seven days aregone since I saw you. In the thousands of pages of diary, letters, speeches,articles which record the doings of these years,hardly one can be found that has not somethingcharacteristic. In the summer of 1907 occurred inBoston a celebration of Old Home Week. He pre-sided technically, he says, over a great meetingat Symphony Hall. All of us
The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale . ts speeches aloud. But thatadvances slowly. In the evening there is almostalways music and I am in bed by nine must not be anxious about me. I sleep well,eat well, and wonder to think that seven days aregone since I saw you. In the thousands of pages of diary, letters, speeches,articles which record the doings of these years,hardly one can be found that has not somethingcharacteristic. In the summer of 1907 occurred inBoston a celebration of Old Home Week. He pre-sided technically, he says, over a great meetingat Symphony Hall. All of us who go to otherparts of the country, he said, are welcomed withkindness and hospitality because people rememberthe place from which we came. I am as much athome in Santa Barbara or Chicago as I am here,and it is because the people there have a great cor-diality for Boston. If I should go to the North Poleand meet Commander Peary there, he would giveme a welcome, not because I am Edward EverettHale, but because I come from Boston. In pre- ». (J K U _)<:zo I—H H< OuPiOZ oU XH OCO WKH H w CO H < 2o LAST YEARS 407 seating the Governor of the Commonwealth, CurtisGuild, he paused to explain that in this designa-tion of the State officially as Commonwealth,Massachusetts had embodied in language the ideathat every man and woman lives here for the com-mon welfare. The first time when words were socombined in the English language, he went on,was when our own first governor. Governor Win-throp, wrote them in a pamphlet indited by himjust before leaving this country for England. ^ March 4, 1909. (This is one of the last entriesin his own handwriting.) The Inauguration. Wewaked to a heavy snow-storm — snow still streets were blocked as at any time this Senate had taken a recess until 9:30. At9:10 Dudley,^ Nelly, and I went down. But myown service, the first act of the new V. P. did notcome until 12: 10. Then the whole chamber wascrowded and Mr. Sherman
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