John Lothrop Motley and his family; further letters and records . story which he had longbeen studying, so he left America in 1851 in orderto consult them, and thus do full justice to the History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic, thegreat subject which engrossed him. Mr Motley and his family after a tour on the Rhineand other brief travels arrived in Dresden in November1851, remaining there till towards the latter part of1853. His letters from there to his father and mothergiven in the pubhshed volumes are full of descriptionsof the great treasures of art to be found in Dresden, andin one let
John Lothrop Motley and his family; further letters and records . story which he had longbeen studying, so he left America in 1851 in orderto consult them, and thus do full justice to the History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic, thegreat subject which engrossed him. Mr Motley and his family after a tour on the Rhineand other brief travels arrived in Dresden in November1851, remaining there till towards the latter part of1853. His letters from there to his father and mothergiven in the pubhshed volumes are full of descriptionsof the great treasures of art to be found in Dresden, andin one letter to his mother he exclaims :— After allit is a luxury to have your toys by Dinglinger, yourMadonnas by Raphael, and your coats of arms byBenvenuto Cellini. Writing to his father in December 1852, hesays:— Our life is as usual monotonous, furnishing fewtopics for letters. I am working as hard as a wood-sawyer, and am of course as independent as his find the atmosphere congenial to literary labour, or,perhaps, because my time is so wholly my own, I. JOHN MOTLEYBy Stasro PRINCE JOHN OF SAXONY 33 have it more in my power to make long pulls withoutgetting out of the traces. That you may see that thisis not an idle brag so far as work goes, I will state thatI have written a volume since the 13th July of thisyear, one which will make a rather large printedoctavo, and which is the second that I have writtensince I came to Dresden. As this labour includes ofcourse the digging out of raw material out of sub-terranean depths of black letter folios, in half a dozendifferent languages, all which works are dark, grimy,and cheerless as coal-pits, you may suppose that I amnot hkely to be a very agreeable customer when I comeout of my diggings. As a matter of fact occasions were not numerouswhen he did emerge from his diggings and with MrsMotley go to some social entertainment or CourtFunction, but they did come forth at times, and at oneof the Court functions were prese
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