MEMOIR OF DANIEL TREADWELL. 4 J;] 



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day in the fields and woods, wandering about or sitting down in COinfortaMv -ha 

 places with our books, Mr. Treadwell listening, or talking to his dog Snap, alwav 

 his feet, or taking long walks about the country. In cooler weather thi sunny i 

 of protecting walls were our favorite spots ; when at evening we 

 cheerful wood fire on the ample hearth, Dr. Parsons was the reader. Mr. Treadwell 

 preferred listening to reading, except when the subjects were of science. He usually 

 made me take the Iliad, a prose translation, which delighted him; the smooth versi- 

 fication of Pope's Odyssey charmed him when a boy, and he would repeat it p.ige 

 after page. Milton he did not like; Paradise Lost was to him only bad prose, lie 

 was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and among the best readers at the Shakespearian 

 readings." 



He mourned the loss of his Sudbury visits, to which he had become so much 

 attached. To his friend Dr. Sweetser he writes: " The truth is, 1 have been rather 

 drooping for most of the time since you were here in spring: and having lost my 

 old resort of Sudbury (for poor Mr. Howe is dead, and his family of one hundred and 

 twenty years' standing become extinguished, — all gone, — it makes me sad to write 

 it), I have been obliged to seek out new quarters." And again, three or four years 

 later, after he had been thinking of fixing upon the valley of the Connecticut for the 



summer months, and was then try 



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up to what Sudbury was in poor Howe's best days. But all that is now over. Howe 

 has gone down and gone out, and Longfellow has immortalized him in 'The Wayside 

 Inn.' I wish the noor old fellow could know what fame he has come to." 



Mr. Treadwell at this time much enjoyed the Cambridge Scientific Club, an 

 association of gentlemen, most of them connected with the University, formed for 



they were not really at the Sudbury Inn. The musician was Ole Bull; the poet, Dr. T. W. Parsons, the translator 

 of Dante; the Sicilian, Luigi Monti; the theologian, Professor Tread well ; the student, Henry Ware Wales; the 

 Spanish Jew, Israel Edrehi. Parsons, Monti, and Treadwell were in the habit of spending the summer months there. 

 (See Life of Longfellow, Vol. II. p. 398.) 

 Professor Treadwell is thus idealized : 



"A Theologian, from the school 

 Of Cambridge on the Charles, was there; 

 Skilful alike with tongue and pen, 

 He preached to all men everywhere 

 The Gospel of the Golden Rule, 

 The New Commandment given to men, 

 Thinking the deed, and not the creed, 

 Would help us in our utmost need. 

 With reverent feet the earth he trod, 

 Nor banished nature from his plan, 

 But studied still with deep research 

 To build the Universal Church, 

 Lofty as is the love of God, 

 And ample as the wants of man." 



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