The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale . naturally enough, best remembered,as he was in those years that he lived here. It isnot that in these years he did the best work of hislife, — if we could estimate values, a good dealthat he had already done might turn out to bebetter than anything he was yet to do. It is notthat he had made his beginnings and his prepara-tions, and now did the typical work which was tobe remembered, — he was constantly working andgrowing and doing new things. It is not exactlythat he had now the character which remains inmind when people think of him, for he chang
The life and letters of Edward Everett Hale . naturally enough, best remembered,as he was in those years that he lived here. It isnot that in these years he did the best work of hislife, — if we could estimate values, a good dealthat he had already done might turn out to bebetter than anything he was yet to do. It is notthat he had made his beginnings and his prepara-tions, and now did the typical work which was tobe remembered, — he was constantly working andgrowing and doing new things. It is not exactlythat he had now the character which remains inmind when people think of him, for he changedmuch in those years, as he had in the years the long period of years that he lived thereis certainly more coherent and consistent and allof a piece than the years before. He had beena student at college and in the world, a youngminister in a characteristic New England town,the minister of an active church in a growing andchanging city, a leader in the resettling and reor-ganizing of a vigorous religious body: he was now 134. DCQX o ww H CO Q< KO ONCO 39 HIGHLAND STREET 135 a well-recognized man, almost a public man, asone might say, who stood definitely in the publicmind for an ideal in public life and public service,and who was known in a general way to manywho had very little idea of the particular activi-ties which took up his time. However all this may be, the years of his life in39 Highland Street are the years best rememberedby his children and those who knew him youngest son, Robert Beverley Hale, was bornin September 1869, while the family was still inMilton. In the Highland Street house his familygrew together and grew up. This was for thoseyears the family center, and he was the movingspirit of it. The family of the older generationhad passed away. His father and mother weredead. Of the brother and sisters of earlier days,Jane, Sarah, and Alexander were dead; and Nathandied in 1871. Of the others, Charles was still inEgypt; Susan and
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