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My dear John, Your letter reached me safely, and I share your surprise and regret at what seems to me, so far as I can see, a wholly unnecessary act. I will speak of it in the Weekly at once because the Magazine is always so long after! I saw some notice of Cranch's seventieth birthday. Good lack! how the years whiz!
When he returned to America in 1863 he went to live on Staten Island in order to be near George William Curtis, who cared for him as Damon did for Pythias, and who served to counteract the ill-omened influence of Cranch's brother-in-law. The Century Club purchased one of his pictures, an allegorical subject, which I believe still hangs in their halls.
My fingers never reached it in that attempt; instinct made them draw back as if the object had been of red-hot metal. But it was not of red-hot metal. It was of gold. It was a locket. It was the very locket and chain that had been taken from the neck of Monty Cranch's baby! "So!" I cried, starting back as if it had been a tarantula; "so it is you! Found at last!"
He mutely referred to his watch, which he already held in his hand, and then put it back in his pocket. "Well! we found her!" "Francisco," interrupted the priest with a single stride, laying his hand upon Cranch's arm, and staring into his eyes. Mr. Cranch quietly removed Father Pedro's hand. "I reckon that wasn't the name as I caught it," he returned dryly. "Hadn't you better sit down?"
Gideon Arch, a Hungarian scholar, philologist, and exile of 1849, said of his "Endymion" that there were Endymions in all languages, but that Cranch's was the best.
The accession of the Republicans to power in 1801, only to find the courts of the country controlled by judges appointed from the ranks of the Federalists, was the occasion of new attacks upon the doctrine thus laid down. Madison, I Cranch's Reports, 137. Party feeling ran high at this time.
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