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Till the 16th I must remain here, and on the 22nd I shall be back at Weymar. By way of entertainment I enjoy Labitzki and his water-cure orchestra, Aldridge, the black Roscius, who plays beautifully Othello, Macbeth, and Fiesco; also spurious Arabs and genuine Chinese, who howl and tinkle to make one run away.
Higgs, an old servant in the Horne family, of whom Carrie had heard in the lifetime of Miss Aldridge, had found her out, had touched her heart by a kindness evidently genuine, and had prevailed upon her to go and make her home in the deserted house, which, Mrs. Higgs said, had been intended for her by her late master.
In music and art we recall Bridgewater, the friend of Beethoven, and the unexplained complexion of Beethoven's own father; Coleridge-Taylor in England, Tanner in America, Gomez in Spain; Ira Aldridge, the actor, and Johnson, Cook, and Burleigh, who are making the new American syncopated music.
The Irish Relief Act, 10th Vic., c. 7 Rapid expansion of Public Works They fail to sustain the people Clauses of the new Relief Act Relief Committees Their duties Union rating Principal clergy members of Relief Committees Duties of Government Inspectors Finance Committees Numbers on Public Works in February, 1847 Monthly outlay Parliament gives authority to borrow £8,000,000 Reduction of labourers on Public Works Task work condemned Rules drawn up by new Relief Commissioners Rations to be allowed Definition of soup First Report of Commissioners Remonstrances Quantity of stationery used Cooked food recommended Monsieur Soyer comes to Ireland His coming heralded by the London Journals His soup Jealousy M. Jaquet on Soyer The Lancet on the subject Professor Aldridge, M.D., on Soyer's soup Sir Henry Marsh on it M. Soyer's model soup kitchen A "gala day" Ireland M. Soyer's "difficulty" Last appearance!
The 9 day of April we came to Zante, and being before the towne, William Aldridge, seruant to Master Thomas Cordall of London, came aboord us, with whom our Master and twelue more of our company, thought to haue gone on shoare: but they could not be permitted: so we all came aboard againe, and went to Patras, where we arriued vpon good Friday, and lay there with good enterteinement at the English house, where was the Consull Master Grimes, Ralph Ashley, and Iohn Doddington, who very kindly went with vs, and shewed vs the pleasures of the towne.
I'd rather have the excitement of living what you call a hole-and-corner life than spend my days stitch stitch stitching dust dust dusting, as I used to have to do with Miss Aldridge, as I should have to do if I went away from here."
There is one more passage, Sir, in your letter, which I cannot answer, without putting you to new trouble a liberty which all your indulgence cannot justify me in taking; else I would beg to know on what authority you attribute to Laurence Earl of Rochester the famous preface to his father's history, which I have always heard ascribed to Atterbury, Smallridge, and Aldridge.
These were joined by Dr Aldridge, who, though nicknamed the priest of Bacchus, was otherwise an excellent man, and adorned with all kinds of learning.
"I had seventeen of Edna May," continued the stricken Seymourite, monotonously. "In various attitudes. All destroyed." "On the first fifteen ground, of course," said Trevor. "I'll get Aldridge to referee. That'll suit you, I suppose?" "All right. Anything you like. Just by the fireplace I found the remains of Arthur Roberts in H.M.S. Irresponsible. And part of Seymour Hicks. Under the table "
In 1841 the first Negro magazine began to appear, this being issued by the A.M.E. Church. There were numerous autobiographies, that of Frederick Douglass, first appearing in 1845, running through edition after edition. On the stage there was the astonishing success of Ira Aldridge, a tragedian who in his earlier years went to Europe, where he had the advantage of association with Edmund Kean.
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