Records and papers of the New London county historical society .. . provedto be not only an uplifting influence, but a dynamic force in Americanscholarship, literature and civiHzation. In the case of each one, therecord is beautifully complete. Each had more than completed histhree score and ten years, two of them dying in the harness at the ageof seventy-four and seventy-seven respectively, and the third lingeringdreamily through the last year of his long life to the age of eighty-six; perhaps living over that Dream life with which he had charmedhis readers fifty-seven years before. In some o
Records and papers of the New London county historical society .. . provedto be not only an uplifting influence, but a dynamic force in Americanscholarship, literature and civiHzation. In the case of each one, therecord is beautifully complete. Each had more than completed histhree score and ten years, two of them dying in the harness at the ageof seventy-four and seventy-seven respectively, and the third lingeringdreamily through the last year of his long life to the age of eighty-six; perhaps living over that Dream life with which he had charmedhis readers fifty-seven years before. In some of those rare pauses which this strenuous life of oursgrants us, it may be well to ask ourselves what three names we shallplace on our honorary roll to hll the three places now made question is by this: Can we rtnd three names thatwill completely fill these vacancies? EDMUND CLARENCE In iSq3 our poet, Stedman, wrote these lines: (Jive me to die unwitting of the day, And stricken in lifes brave heat, with senses KdMINO Pinr N. Y. IN MEMORIAM. 221 Fifteen years later that wish was fulfilled. On the eighteenth ofJanuary. 1908. that brave, sunn\ spirit took its sudden flight, after amorning of his loved literary work, and a greeting by telephone to afriend. 1 cannot iiope at this time to do more than to say a word of remem-brance and appreciation of this rare spirit, which 1 feel must be verj-inadequately spoken. We claim him as a Norwich man, even though his birthplace, ofwhich he had onh- the dim recollection of a boy of six years, wasHartford. It was here in Norwich that the formative period of hislife was here that he passed the early years of his marriedlife, and commenced his literary career as the founder of the NorwichTribune. And to the day of his death, he clung with a lo\alty which,like all his other loyalties, has well been called a passion, to the homeof his boyhood an
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