Tarry at home travels . The Capitol at Hartford. winter to write us a good history of their litteryfellers/ the circle of wit and learning and men ofletters who lived in Hartford a hundred yearsago. Why should not Professor McCook or or dear Mr. Clemens or Arthur Perkins CONNECTICUT 261 or his sister retire into their inner consciousnessand go into Miss He winss charming inner roomor rummage in the manuscripts of the alcovesof the Wadsworth and tell us more about thosebright men who wrote such bright things between. The Death of Captain Ferrer, of the a contemporary en
Tarry at home travels . The Capitol at Hartford. winter to write us a good history of their litteryfellers/ the circle of wit and learning and men ofletters who lived in Hartford a hundred yearsago. Why should not Professor McCook or or dear Mr. Clemens or Arthur Perkins CONNECTICUT 261 or his sister retire into their inner consciousnessand go into Miss He winss charming inner roomor rummage in the manuscripts of the alcovesof the Wadsworth and tell us more about thosebright men who wrote such bright things between. The Death of Captain Ferrer, of the a contemporary engraving. 1790 and 1820? That capital ballad, ^Franklinone night, cold, freezing to the skin, was printedin the Hartford Courant of that time. Really,it would not be beneath the notice of the Hart-ford Courant to unveil to us some of the secretsof Connecticut literature a hundred years are always having picturesque thingsturn up in Connecticut. There is not in historyanything more dramatic than the story of the 262 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Amistad which worked itself to the denouementhere. The Amistad was a slave ship. She hadbrought from Africa to Havana a cargo of Havana some Spanish planter bought thecargo, pretty much as it stood, made perhapssome additions there, and they were to be carriedin the Amistad to his plantation. The poorfellows had had enough of slave ships, and theyrose on the Portuguese crew and turned the blacks were in command and the whites werethe prisoners. Then where we
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