Tarry at home travels . How one would like to show how near these menand other Maine men have been to the centresof our American life! Bowdoin College in herlist of alumni counts Hawthorne, Henry Long-fellow, Dr. Cleveland, both Hamlins and Packardand the Chandlers, Carroll Everett, and GovernorAndrew and so many more. Let me speak ofthe Greenleafs of Huguenot blood, who came fromNewburyport after the war and settled on theupper Penobscot. Of them is Simon Greenleaf,the jurist, and Moses Greenleaf, who made themap of Maine on the wall yonder. His son wasmy dear and near friend, my other self,
Tarry at home travels . How one would like to show how near these menand other Maine men have been to the centresof our American life! Bowdoin College in herlist of alumni counts Hawthorne, Henry Long-fellow, Dr. Cleveland, both Hamlins and Packardand the Chandlers, Carroll Everett, and GovernorAndrew and so many more. Let me speak ofthe Greenleafs of Huguenot blood, who came fromNewburyport after the war and settled on theupper Penobscot. Of them is Simon Greenleaf,the jurist, and Moses Greenleaf, who made themap of Maine on the wall yonder. His son wasmy dear and near friend, my other self, may Isay ? — Frederic William Greenleaf, who died in1852. I was thirty, and he a year or two is the Harry Wadsworth of my book, TenTimes One is Ten. I spoke above of my first visit in Longfellow house on ]\Iain Street is pre- THE STATE OF MAINE 55 served, one is so glad to say in this age of destruc-tion. When I was first there, Judge Longfellowwas still alive. He had served the state to great. The Longfellow House in Portland. purpose; perhaps he did not know then how hisname was going down to the next century. ]\IySamuel Longfellow must have been born in saw him first on an August morning in 1835,at about six oclock in the morning. I hadridden to Cambridge from Boston in what Dr. 56 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS Holmes would have called a one-horse shay,to be examined for admittance at the at the moment when we arrived, mybrother and I, in front of University, twomore chaises arrived, both of them, as it proved,from the State of Maine, so simple were thearrangements of those days. In one of them wasFrancis Brown Hayes, my friend from that hourtill he died. In the other was Samuel Longfellow,of whom I may say the same. He was my grooms-man when I was married; he wrote the hymnfor my ordination. North and south, east andwest, we always corresponded with each was one of those, as I have said, who satwhere John Harvard now sits, coun
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