Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . f the famous controversy over the establishment of theAnglican Episcopate in America, one end of which was waged fromthis house by the Reverend East Apthorp shortly before the Revo-lution. In this house also that author of skits and farces, Lieu-tenant-General John Burgoyne, lived on parole after his defeat onthe plains of Saratoga. No. 90 Brattle Street, corner Ash Street, is the new home whichJohn Fiske, historian and philosopher, built just before his death,but in which he never lived. It i
Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . f the famous controversy over the establishment of theAnglican Episcopate in America, one end of which was waged fromthis house by the Reverend East Apthorp shortly before the Revo-lution. In this house also that author of skits and farces, Lieu-tenant-General John Burgoyne, lived on parole after his defeat onthe plains of Saratoga. No. 90 Brattle Street, corner Ash Street, is the new home whichJohn Fiske, historian and philosopher, built just before his death,but in which he never lived. It is now occupied by his widow. Atthe time of his death he lived at. 22 Berkeley Street. (Works, 24vols., 1902.) No. 105 Brattle Street. The Craigie, or the Longfellow,House. Occupied, first in part and then as a whole, by Henry Wads-worth Longfellow (1807-1882) for forty-five years. When he came 38 CAMBRIDGE to Cambridge in 1836 he lived for a year on Kirkland Street. Thenext year (1837) he moved to the Craigie House, taking rooms, oneof which had been occupied by Washington after he left Wadsworth. CRAIGIE HOUSECAMBRIDGE House. In 1841, Joseph Emerson Worcester (see also Salem), thefamous lexicographer and philologist, leased and lived in the house,Longfellow keeping his rooms. Shortly afterwards Longfellowbought the house, and Worcester moved a Httle way down the streetnearer Brattle Square, where his house still stands. Beside Long-fellow, Washington, and Worcester, there have lived at differenttimes in the Craigie House such men as Edward Everett, WillardPhillips, and Jared Sparks. Longfellow is so world-widely knownthat the mention of his ^Works in fourteen volumes will be sugges-tion enough. Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892), author of a life of his brother,the poet, a memoir of Samuel Johnson, and a number of spiritedhymns and poems, lived at No. 76, a httle further down the street. No. 2 Riedesel Avenue. H(enry) Addington Bruce (1874- ).Author. (The Riddle of Personality; Sci
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