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And she is very anxious about her husband. I don't know how she'll take it, when she hears that he has gone to America." "Yes, that is a bad business, Mrs. Whitelaw," Gilbert answered gravely. "He was not in a fit state to travel, unfortunately. He was only just recovering from a severe illness, and was as weak as a child." "O dear, O dear! But you won't tell Mrs. Holbrook that, sir?"
Whitelaw, in his History of Dublin , mentions a very aristocratic musical academy, which held its meetings in the Fishamble Street Hall, under the presidency of the Earl of Mornington the Duke of Wellington's father.
Able newspaper correspondents like Sidney Andrews of the Boston Advertiser and the Chicago Tribune, who opposed President Johnson's policies, Thomas W. Knox of the New York Herald, who had given General Sherman so much trouble in Tennessee, Whitelaw Reid, who wrote for several papers and tried cotton planting in Louisiana, and John T. Trowbridge, New England author and journalist, were dispatched southwards.
The first of these letters refers to a dinner of welcome given to Sir Henry Irving. The last two to books by my mother and Richard, and which were published simultaneously. NEW YORK, November 27, 1893. DEAR MOTHER: The dinner was very fine. I was very glad I went. Whitelaw Reid sat on one side of Sir Henry Irving and Horace Porter on the other. Howells and Warner came next.
A few months later he exchanged temporary lodgings for chambers in Staple Inn, where he surrounded himself with plain furniture and many books. In personal appearance he had changed a good deal since that prize-day at Whitelaw when his success as versifier and essayist foretold a literary career. His figure was no longer ungainly; the big head seemed to fit better upon the narrow shoulders.
See Lecture to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution by Whitelaw Reid, reported in The Scotsman, November 2nd, 1911. ON the 25th of November, 1918, the Parliament elected in December 1910 was at last dissolved, a few days after the Armistice with Germany. The new House of Commons was very different from the old.
Harriet Beecher Stowe to Susan B. Anthony, Dec., 1869, Alma Lutz Collection. The Revolution, IV, Dec. 23, 1869, p. 385. Woman's Journal, Jan. 8, 1870. Ms., Diary, Jan. 18, 1870. Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, pp. 124-125. The Revolution, V, Feb. 24, 1870, pp. 117-118. Susan attributed the Tribune editorial to Whitelaw Reid. Susan B. Anthony Scrapbook, Library of Congress.
His patent-leather boots were dandiacally diminutive; his glove fitted like that of a lady who lives but to be bien gantee. The feathery hair, which at Whitelaw he was wont to pat and smooth, still had its golden shimmer, and on his face no growth was permitted. 'I had heard of your arrival here, of course, said Peak, trying to appear civil, though anything more than that was beyond his power.
Councilmen 1st Ward William Given, George Whitelaw, Buckley Stedman. 2d Ward Alexander McIntosh, William Bingham, Samuel Williamson. 3d Ward Arthur Hughes, Abner C. Brownell, Levi Johnson. Mayor William Case. President of the Council John Gill, Aldermen John Gill, Leander M. Hubby, Abner C. Brownell, Buckley Stedman.
He found no difficulty in imagining that Sir Job's right hand knew nothing of what the left performed, and it might be that the authorities of Whitelaw had no hint of his peculiar position. Still, he was perchance mistaken. The Professors perhaps regarded him as a sort of charity-boy, and Twybridge possibly saw him in the same light.
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