Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . he, sympathizing thoroughly in her husbands pur-suits, had her own interests as well. Mrs. Rutledgegladly opened her doors to her daughters friends, andfew societies were more agreeable and intellectual thanthat gathered in the old house which still bore the markof Clintons shell. From Friday afternoon to Monday morning duringthe winter, and for the month of April, when the exer-cises of the college were at an end, Dr. and Mrs. Hol-brook were usually to be found at a pretty cottage builton the
Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . he, sympathizing thoroughly in her husbands pur-suits, had her own interests as well. Mrs. Rutledgegladly opened her doors to her daughters friends, andfew societies were more agreeable and intellectual thanthat gathered in the old house which still bore the markof Clintons shell. From Friday afternoon to Monday morning duringthe winter, and for the month of April, when the exer-cises of the college were at an end, Dr. and Mrs. Hol-brook were usually to be found at a pretty cottage builton the site of Mrs. Pinckneys pre-Revolutionary home,Belmont, about four miles from town. Belmont househad been burned by the British, and its woods destroyed,as Mrs. Pinckney laments in her letters ; but sixty yearshad done much to repair the waste. Of this place andits inmates, Mrs. Agassiz, the wife of the great professor,writes in the Life of her husband. After speaking ofhis lectures and work generally, she says of Agassiz, hiswife and family, using Mrs. Holbrooks pet name for hercountry home: —. 477 478 CHARLESTON Their holidays and occasional vacations were passedat the house of Dr. John E. Holbrook, the Hollow Tree (properly Belmont — the Hollow Tree was only a petname for the old family place of the Pinckneys), an ex-quisitely pretty and picturesque country place in theneighbourhood of Charleston. Here Agassiz had beenreceived almost as one of the family on his first visitto Charleston, shortly after his arrival in the UnitedStates. Dr. Holbrooks name, as the author of theHerpetology of South Carolina (North America), hadlong been familiar to him, and he now found a congenialand affectionate friend in the colleague and fellow-workerwhose personal acquaintance he had been anxious tomake. Dr. Holbrooks wife, a direct descendant of JohnRutledge, of our revolutionary history, not only sharedher husbands intellectual life, but had herself rare mentalqualities, which had been
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