. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . I hadit engraved on a brass plate. I regret that the signsof the Zodiac have not been cut deeper, but if ex-amined attentively each will be found well Since you have consented to receive the relic, Ihave had inscribed below our original design thefollowing : — Transferred to NaushonSept. 1, 1866. So much for its history. I planted the dial in front of the homestead, andthere it remained about a year; but then fate com-pelled us to sell the whole place, but the dial didnot go with the land. I took it with me into townand there i
. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . I hadit engraved on a brass plate. I regret that the signsof the Zodiac have not been cut deeper, but if ex-amined attentively each will be found well Since you have consented to receive the relic, Ihave had inscribed below our original design thefollowing : — Transferred to NaushonSept. 1, 1866. So much for its history. I planted the dial in front of the homestead, andthere it remained about a year; but then fate com-pelled us to sell the whole place, but the dial didnot go with the land. I took it with me into townand there it has remained in melancholy uselessnessever since, migrating with me from house to house,at first upstairs out of sight. We did not want tosee it, for it reminded us too strongly of the pleasantspot that we had left forever ; moreover, we had nosun to give it. Gradually I brought it down into 1 Beneath the inscription by Whittier these words were also en-graved upon the disc : — Relic from old Englandplaced here byH. I. & O. 17, C!)c Wittier §>tufc£)lal THE WHITTIER SUN-DIAL 247 my office, but it was always in the wrong seemed to value it, and I saw no permanentabode for it. The moment after reading the Nau-shon book I said to myself, The long-sought-forresting place is found. If Mr. and Mrs. Forbeswill take it and value it for Whittiers and Billingsssake, remembering us at the same time, how gratefulit will be to us. And so with these hopes we com-mend it to your kindly yours, Henry I. Bowditoh. My father afterwards regretted his rather impulsiveact of generosity, feeling that, as Whittier had composedthe lines expressly for him, he shouldnever have parted with the dial, evenwhen placing it with such dear andappreciative friends. So strong washis desire that it should some day bereturned to his family, that his oft-repeated wish was, in the last year ofhis life, made known. Mr. Forbes,with characteristic generosity and kin
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