CHAPTER X 



As His Friends and Family Knew Him 

 Before the War 



Before passing on to a consideration of Maury's con- 

 nection with the events of the Civil War, one should give 

 some attention to him as he appeared to his friends and 

 family during the ante helium decade when success, fame, 

 and happiness were all his. Some idea of his personality 

 has, perhaps, already been conveyed through the dis- 

 cussion of his work and achievements up to this point in 

 his career, though only incidentally; now the aim will be 

 to focus attention for awhile on Maury the man. 



The range of his acquaintances was very extensive, 

 and the list of his correspondents was largely the roll of 

 the great men of his day. Among these were the follow- 

 ing, taken at random: John Quincy Adams, John C. 

 Calhoun, John Tyler, Leverrier and other astronomers 

 both at home and abroad, Humboldt, the Grand Duke 

 Constantine of Russia, the Archduke Ferdinand Maxi- 

 milian of Austria, Jomard, the French Egyptologist, 

 S. F. B. Morse, Cyrus W. Field, Professor Agassiz, Dr. 

 Kane, Lord Wrottesley, Lord Ashburton, Bishop Otey, 

 Bishop Leonidas Polk, Matthew Calbraith Perry, 

 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Captain Jansen of Holland, 

 Baron Justus von Liebig, John A. Dahlgren, William 

 Gilmbre Sims, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Michael 

 Faraday, Benjamin Silliman, Jefferson Davis, Sam 

 Houston, Donald McKay, and dozens of others whose 

 names are not now so well remembered, — scientists, 

 statesmen, and men of affairs. Maury's personality was 



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