TitleLetter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill
NamesGates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Recipient)Armstrong, John (Creator)
CollectionThomas Addis Emmet collection, [legacy collection]
Series XXII. Irving's Life of Washington
Dates / OriginDate Created: 1483 - 1876 (Approximate)Place: Clermont, N.Y.Date Created: 1800-01-02
Library locationsManuscripts and Archives DivisionShelf locator: MssCol 927
GenresDocuments
NotesFunding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.Citation/reference: EM13380-14457
Physical DescriptionA. L. S. 2 pp. Fo
DescriptionNew York. Has withdrawn from the festivity of the parlor to present to Gates the sincerest wishes that a friendship of twenty-three years could frame; knows not that a protracted life was a more reasonable wish, or desirable object than at present, when every hour productive of some great event in the interest of mankind; to Gates and himself looking to a political millenium, (the religious they leave to John Jay), the drama is of infinite moment; but what are human hopes! their old acquaintance, Washington, was not without his, his constitution, etc., bespoke a firmness which might have carried him 15 or 20 years into the present century, -- but he was not permitted to pass its threshold; "nil nisi bonum de mortuis" has been universally adopted; good fortune has not abandoned her favorite at the grave; the dead Washington fated to be as little known and as much misrepresented as the living; has bespoken his own eulogy; it was reported that the Pliny of our Trajan is David Humphries, who had already tried his powers on the life and labors of old Putnam, [Humphrey's Essay on the Life of .... Israel Putnam, Philadelphia, 1798]; too much to expect him to quicken the dead, the choice of subject betrayed a want of judgment, the manner of execution a want of everything a biographer ought to have; understands [Charles] Lee and [Gouverneur] Morris were appointed to make the funeral orations at Philadelphia and New York; Lee might be tolerable, but let Morris study and let him write and he shall never rise above contempt; concludes with domestic details and friendly wishes.
Type of ResourceText
LanguagesEnglish
IdentifiersNYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11868616MSS Unit ID: 927Archives EAD ID: 279455Calendar number: EM. 14285Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8ab46dd0-002c-0130-3693-58d385a7bc34
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