Diplomatic Services of George William Erving

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Excerpt from Diplomatic Services of George William Erving: Communicated to the Massachusetts Historical SocietyIt was a goodly company, Mr. President, into which I was admitted in 1839, and one with which any man might have been proud to be associated. We had not with us then, it is true, some of the famous poets with whom we have taken sweet counsel in later years, nor some of our most brilliant historians. Longfellow and Emerson and Holmes and Lowell and Motley and Parkman were associ ates of a much more recent date. But our Society then ih cluded, among its sixty members, venerable and venerated clergymen, like Dr. William Jenks, Dr. John Pierce, Dr. Charles Lowell, Dr. Convers Francis, and Dr. Alexander Young, illustrious statesmen, like John Quincy Adams, Josiah Quincy, and Daniel Webster, learned judges and counsellors, like John Davis, Daniel A. White, Leverett Saltonstall, Lemuel Shaw, and Rufus Choate, while of authors and orators it had George Ticknor, Jared Sparks, William H. Prescott, Francis 0. Gray, John G. Palfrey, and Edward Everett. I must not omit Nathan Appleton, the eminent merchant and financier, and good Isaac P. Davis, one of the most obliging and useful members we have ever had. Nor can I fail to name my own honored father, who was then our President, and James Savage, our great antiquarian, who soon succeeded him in the chair.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.