Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . IN OLD BOSTON 351 behind it men who foresaw the coming of thatchange and planned for it. Daniel Websterlived here for a while and it was here thatCharles Sumner entertained Dickens. The American House dates from 1835. Itwas to this place that Emerson and Whitmanadjourned for what Walt describes as * a bullydinner after the Sage of Concord and theGood Gray Poet had for hours been trampingup and down Boston Common arguing aboutthe wisdom or folly of publishing Leaves ofGrass. Intimately bound up
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . IN OLD BOSTON 351 behind it men who foresaw the coming of thatchange and planned for it. Daniel Websterlived here for a while and it was here thatCharles Sumner entertained Dickens. The American House dates from 1835. Itwas to this place that Emerson and Whitmanadjourned for what Walt describes as * a bullydinner after the Sage of Concord and theGood Gray Poet had for hours been trampingup and down Boston Common arguing aboutthe wisdom or folly of publishing Leaves ofGrass. Intimately bound up with the developmentof hotels and means of transportation is thegrowth of newspapers and increased facilityin mail transmission. As late as 1835 it costeighteen and three-quarters cents to send aletter of a single sheet from Boston to NewYork. Necessarily, therefore, newspapers pre-ferred copying from sheets issued in other citiesto maintaining their own correspondents inNew York and elsewhere. In 1825 Boston hadfour daily papers, three tri-weekly ones, sevensemi-weeklies and fifteen weekly shee
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