http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f126-subject%3Dletter%20transcript Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f126-subject=letter transcript Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-L-001.xml A part of my Son C B Browns Diary — http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1788-L-001.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-006.xml "What, my friend, art thou certainly awake? Or is it that I am dreaming? No, I believe you incapable of adulation: and yet there are some parts of your acceptable epistle, which are ex- tremely suspicious. But your motives do not only excuse, but justify you; when a friend is sinking into a quicksand or strug- gling with a suffocating stream, there is nothing can betide him which is so dangerous as despair; and one, who, though near at hand, is unable to afford him any personal assistance, cannot be more serviceable to him, than by cherishing his hopes, and keep- ing him from yielding to despair; and if in the ardour of our exhortations, and the precipitancy of our zeal, we chance to de- viate from rigid truth, and facilitate his escape, by invigorating his efforts with flattering representations of his power, and delu- ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-006.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-012.xml Why is my inclination not attended with ability? Why do I find myself disposed to write without experiencing that rigor of conviction and facility of utterance of which I have at other times been sensible? Unseasonable langors take possession of me. Joyless slumbers weigh down my eye-lids. Not even the idea of my beloved friend, for whom, notwithstanding an impatient and capricious disposition, I entertain the most ardent and sincere affection, of which my heart is at this waning era of my existence susceptible, can banish this oppressive listlessness and rouse me into watchfulness or activity. What expe- dient shall I practice to restore me to the empire of my thoughts? How the curtain of each eye gradually falls, how the objects vanish by degrees "remote and small"! My pen moves with difficulty through the line. Each l... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-012.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023.xml "I have read your letter. It is short. I wish to answer it with equal brevity. (Have I not reason to suppose that long letters from me, if they ever were, have now ceased to be acceptable?) But a brief answer is impossible; excuse therefore my prolixi- ty. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-023.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-029.xml I have, this moment, received my friend’s letter. I suppose I ought to have gone to the packet. It may not be usual to leave letters at the houses of those to whom they were directed. If you purpose to maintain a regular corrspondnce, you shall never have reason to charge me with indolence or negligence. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-029.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-031.xml "Why, my friend, is there so wide an interval between the writing and the reception of your letters? That which I receiv- ed last evening, is dated November 4, and was delivered to me by a person who, passing through Trenton, saw it at a ta- vern, and made himself, through mere politeness, the bearer of it. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-031.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-037.xml I received a letter from you yesterday, in which you kindly express the doubts and apprehensions which the failure of your former letter produced. That it failed was, I now perceive, the fault of neither of us. There ought to be some fixed and settled method of conveyance between us or we shall both of us be in perpetual uncertainty. I have hitherto sent my letters by the Trenton stage boat, and not knowing that there was any more expeditious or convenient method. You would acquit me of all blame, if you knew how often, since I despatched my last, I have called at this boat in expectation of receiving an answer, nor was your supposed silence less productive of uneasiness to me than, as you kindly assure me, my seeming neglect was to you. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1792-L-037.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-050.xml It will doubtless be pleasing to be assured that your hospitable intentions towards me were answered, and that I owe to you particularly, as much pleasure as I ever experienced on a like occasion, and that my excursion to New York, will long be remembered by me with the most pleasing emotions. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-050.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-051.xml Under what pretence, can I expect thy peru= =sal of the enclosed Verses? No one can be more conscious of his unworthiness, how little he merits that regard and esteem to which however he so ardently aspires. Wilt thou condescend so much as not to be displeased at the boldness of this Adress? That it requires the most earnest apologies, I am very cer= =tain;—that any Apologies will be sufficient I cannot but doubt. Yet what may not be expected from the candour of the person whom I am now addressing. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-051.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-052.xml My Dear Friend, http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1794-L-052.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-054.xml In September, 1795, after a visit to New York, he writes to the same, “Soon after my return, I began the design of which we talked so much. I had planned so that I could finish a work equal in extent to Caleb Williams in less than six weeks; and wrote a quantity equivalent to ten of his (Godwin’s) pages daily, till the hot weather and inconvenient circumstances obliged me to relax my diligence. Great expedition does not seem very desira¬ble. Tenets so momentous require a leisurely and deep examina¬tion; and much meditation, reading, and writing, I presume, are necessary to render my system of morality perfect in all its parts, and to acquire a full and luminous conviction; but I have not stopped—I go on, though less precipitately than at first, and hope finally to produce something valuable for its utility.” The work her... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1795-L-054.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-063.xml Four months afterward, he again wrote to his friend Dunlap; "After wandering through fifty pages, the experiment was sufficiently made, and the thorough consciousness that I was unfitted for the instructer’s chair, that my style was feeble and diffuse, my method prolix and inaccurate, my reasoning crude and superficial, and my knowledge narrow and undigested, suddenly benumbed my fingers: I dropped the pen, and I sunk into silent and solitary meditation on the means of remedying these defects." http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-063.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-064.xml Saturday, 23rd http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-064.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-065.xml Recd. a long letter from C.B. Brown. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-065.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-068.xml Thursday, 7th http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-068.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-075.xml I have been busy for this good many days past, and have allowed the weariness of some hours dayly occupation to my pen, to unfit me for this employment. I received your last letter in good time, and thank you for your punctuality: a virtue in which it seems my destiny to fall short of most other people. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1796-L-075.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-L-080.xml Tuesday, 18. Recd. a letter from C. B. Brown. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-L-080.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-095.xml In a letter to his brother James, dated the twenty-fifth of August, 1798, after mentioning his literary plans, for he was then preparing to publish “Wieland,” and the project of a Ma- gazine for his profit had been suggested; he concludes thus: “heavy rains, uncleansed sinks, and a continuance of unexam- pled heat, has within these ten days, given birth to the yellow fever among us, in its epidemical form. Death and alarms have rapidly multiplied, but it is hoped that now, as formerly, its influence will be limited to one place. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-095.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-097.xml On the fourth of September he writes thus to his brother James, justifying his continuance in New York. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-097.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-098.xml [Sept.] 5th Receive letters & papers frm N.Y. Letter from Brown, Johnson, & Smith http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-098.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-099.xml The letters which at this time he wrote to his brother James were in answer to earnest entreaties of his family that he would fly from New York as they had done from Philadelphia, where the pestilence raged with equal malignity. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-099.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-101.xml On Sunday morning the seventeenth of September, Brown writes thus to his brother. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-101.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-103.xml Of his feelings at this time we must judge by his letters. The day before the death of his friend, he thus addresses his brother. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-103.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-104.xml 21stWell my beloved friend! It may afford you some satisfaction to recognize my hand once more tho’ vague & feeble in a degree that astonishes myself. I can add little to what is before said by William. Most ardently do I long to shut out this City from my view but my strength has been, within these few days, so totally & unaccount- ably subverted, that I can scarcely flatter myself with being able, very shortly, to remove. I do not understand my own case, but see enough to discover that the combination of bodily & mental causes have made such deep inroads on the vital energies of brain & stomach, I am afraid I cannot think of departing before Monday at the least. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-104.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-105.xml In another letter he says “ the weather has lately changed for the better, and hopes are generally entertained that the pestilence, for so it may truly be called, will decline. As to myself, I certainly improve, though slowly, and now entertain very slight apprehensions of danger to myself. Still I am anxious to leave the city. To go to Amboy and remain there for some time, will be most eligible. This calamity has endeared the survivors of the sacred fellowship, W. D., W. J. and myself to each other in a very high degree; and I con- fess my wounded spirit, and shattered frame, will be most likely to be healed and benefitted by their society. Permit me therefore, to decline going with you to Burlington. For a little while at least.” http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-105.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-106.xml The next day, September twenty-fifth, Charles addressed his brother from Perth Amboy. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-106.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-107.xml New York, December 20th, 1798. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-107.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-108.xml After some hesitation, a stranger to the person, though not to the character of Thomas Jefferson, ventures to intreat his acceptance of the volume by which this is accompanied. He is unacquainted with the degree in which your time & attention is engrossed by your public office: he knows not in what way your studious hours are distributed, & whether mere works of imagination & invention are not exclud= =ed from your notice. He is even doubtful whether this letter will be opened or read or, if read, whether its contents will not be instantly dismissed from your memory; so much a stranger is he, though a citizen of the United States, to the private occupations & modes of judging of the most illustrious of his fellow Citizens. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-108.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-109.xml In the month of December, 1798, he thus details to his brother Armit, a plan for a magazine. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1798-L-109.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-L-110.xml Extract of a letter, dated New York, January 1, 1799. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-L-110.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-L-111.xml New York, February 15th, 1799. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-L-111.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-L-112.xml New York, July 26th, 1799. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1799-L-112.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-L-114.xml New York, April, 1800. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-L-114.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-L-115.xml Philadelphia, September 1st, 1800. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1800-L-115.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1800 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-130.xml I parted from you last night with some uneasiness. I had done something wrong in the sequel of our conversation. While talking about Miss B— your words, your looks disapproved. They censured me, it seemed, for being too credulous; too prone to admire & confide http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-130.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-147.xml Philadelphia, October 31st, 1801. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1801-L-147.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1801 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-152.xml Philadelphia, August 13th, 1802. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-152.xml Fri, 01 Jan 1802 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-153.xml Philadelphia, October 9th, 1802. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1802-L-153.xml Fri, 01 Jan 1802 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-160.xml Philadelphia, January 18th, 1803. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1803-L-160.xml Sat, 01 Jan 1803 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-165.xml Philadelphia, July 4th, 1804. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1804-L-165.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1804 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-L-168.xml Philadelphia, November 6th, 1805. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1805-L-168.xml Tue, 01 Jan 1805 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-172.xml Philadelphia, August 25th, 1806. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-172.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-173.xml Philadelphia, 1806. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-L-173.xml Wed, 01 Jan 1806 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1807-L-175.xml Philadelphia, Oct. 16th, 1807. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1807-L-175.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1807 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-178.xml Philadelphia, February 22d, 1809. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-178.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-179.xml At length, like many other victims to this disease, he determined too late on a voyage in pursuit of health. It was resolved that in the spring of 1810, he should visit his brother James, who resides in England; but he lived not to see that spring. http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1809-L-179.xml Sun, 01 Jan 1809 12:00:00 GMT