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Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . SOUTH SIDE OF TEMPLE PLACE ABOUT BOSTON FROM THE STATE HOUSE, ABOUT 1S58. IN OLD BOSTON 43 school for young ladies held in Fay House,Cambridge. In that house she was marriedto Ripley (August 22, 1827) by the father ofOHver Wendell Holmes. Their alliance was* founded not upon any romantic or suddenpassion, but upon great respect for her intel-lectual power, moral worth, deep and trueChristian piety and peculiar refinement anddignity of character, wrote the young husbandto a friend. Ripley
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . SOUTH SIDE OF TEMPLE PLACE ABOUT BOSTON FROM THE STATE HOUSE, ABOUT 1S58. IN OLD BOSTON 43 school for young ladies held in Fay House,Cambridge. In that house she was marriedto Ripley (August 22, 1827) by the father ofOHver Wendell Holmes. Their alliance was* founded not upon any romantic or suddenpassion, but upon great respect for her intel-lectual power, moral worth, deep and trueChristian piety and peculiar refinement anddignity of character, wrote the young husbandto a friend. Ripley came of farmer stock — hisboyhood home was in the beautiful Connecticutvalley, — but he was a lover of books, a graduateof Harvard College, and he had chosen theministry for his profession. It seemed indeed as if the life the pair wouldlead must be that of a quiet Boston parson andhis wife, for he w as soon called over the churchat the corner of Pearl and Purchase Streets,and he stayed there preaching Unitarianism ashe saw it for fourteen years. But, during thoseyears there came to him a vision of that greattruth which is now bur
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