Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ncle,Henry H. Fuller, on the north side of Avon Place (Street),where she held for several seasons her Conversations foryoung ladies. She was afterwards invited to New York, byHorace Greeley, as a contributor to the New York memory of her remarkable talents and literary successesis still fresh, and recalls the painful impression caused by hersad fate from shipwreck on Fire Island, when returning fromEurope in 1850 with her husband and child. It is said she could compose Latin verse when only eightyears old. Her writings, much as they
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . ncle,Henry H. Fuller, on the north side of Avon Place (Street),where she held for several seasons her Conversations foryoung ladies. She was afterwards invited to New York, byHorace Greeley, as a contributor to the New York memory of her remarkable talents and literary successesis still fresh, and recalls the painful impression caused by hersad fate from shipwreck on Fire Island, when returning fromEurope in 1850 with her husband and child. It is said she could compose Latin verse when only eightyears old. Her writings, much as they were admired, were notequal to her conversation, in Avhich her wonderful brilliancyand force of expression came forth with full power, untd. thebest talkers preferred to become listeners in her society. Thestory of her life has often been told, and constitutes one of thebrightest as well as one of the saddest pages of our history. The Wasliington Gardens extended to the corner of WestStreet. They were surrounded by a brick wall, a part of which. A TOUR ItOUND THE COMMON. 313 is seen in the foreground of the view of the Haymarket in theilhistration. A concert was announced liere as early as 1815,by J. H. Shaffer. In 1819 an amphitheatre was erected withinthe grounds, which afterwards took the name of the Washing-ton Theatre. The managers of Federal Street were at firstinterested in this estahhshment, until it passed from their con-trol and became a rival. The house was adapted to the usesof a circus as well as for a theatre, equestrian performanceshaving been given in it a number of times. As such it appearsto have been the first in Boston. Following the Old Drury andHaymarket, it had an English name, being called A^ battalion of British troops is said to have been quartered inthe grounds at the time of the occupation, when they wereknown as Greenleafs Gardens. The site of these gardens was the residence of Stephen Green-leaf, the old sheriff of Suffolk under the stormy
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