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Pierre, thought it wrong to be apart from her and his son, and came to England. Fulk went at once to call on him, expecting to be disgusted with Yankeeisms; but came home, saying he had found a more unlucky man than himself!
Lowell is another memory of these early London days. My first sight of him was at Mr. and Mrs. Westlake's house in a temper! For some one had imprudently talked of "Yankeeisms," perhaps with some "superior" intonation. And Mr. Lowell the Lowell of A Certain Condescension in Foreigners had flashed out: "It's you English who don't know your own language and your own literary history.
He seemed very quiet and inanimate, seldom wanting or seeking diversion, but content to lie still, with half-closed eyes; his manner was reserved, and with something of courteous dignity, especially when Lady Price came to visit him; and the Yankeeisms that sometimes dropped from his tongue did not agree with the polish of the tone, and still less with the imperious manner in which he sometimes addressed the nurse.
Those who have been to the States like an opportunity to speak English, but they are not very strong at it, and it is more than tinged with Yankeeisms. One of them told me that in New York he was treated very well by his Capo-Boss.
The mail is going; I will write again by the next. Aspect of Port Lyttelton Ascent of Hill behind it View Christ Church- -Yankeeisms Return to Port Lyttelton and Ship Phormium Tenax Visit to a Farm Moa Bones. January 27, 1860. Oh, the heat! the clear transparent atmosphere, and the dust!
"Yankeeisms" is their popular title, but the student of old English knows them rather as "Anglicisms." "Since the year 1640 the New England race has not received any notable addition to its original stock, and to-day their Anglican blood is as genuine and unmixed as that of any county in England." Dr.
"But I find you here in improper company and against my orders; and I command you to leave that man and come home with me instantly." Decided sensation in the orchestra-seats, and even on the stage, where Mrs. Florence paused in the middle of one of her most effective Yankeeisms, to know what caused the interruption.
Otherwise you would realize that most of what you call 'Yankeeisms' are merely good old English which you have thrown away." Afterward, I find records of talks with him at Russell Square, then of Mrs. Lowell's death in 1885, and finally of dining with him in the spring of 1887, just before his return to America.
Some of these, as the constant use of 'Mistress' for 'Mrs., are interesting as archaisms, or words in use in the early days of the Colony, and which have never died out of use. Others are Yankeeisms or vulgarisms; others, again, such as the expression 'turning cuffums, i.e. summersets, from cuffums, a species of fish, seem to be of local origin."
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