_ Early Letters To John S. Dwight
       Chapter XIV
       CONCORD, May 24th, '44.
       My dear Friend,--I heard of you at Ole Bull's concert, and have sympathized with you in your delight. I was in Worcester that evening, and had hoped to have come down to Boston and heard him once more. But so many were listening with that pleasure which can come but once, and I knew so many must try in vain to hear, that I was content others should then express that admiration which lies so deeply in my heart. But who of all heard? Was it not as if he walked above the earth, and of his sublime conversation you heard now and then the notes? Did not the singular beauty of the man unite with his performance to make the completest musical festival you have had?
       Indeed, I owe more to him than one can know, except as he feels the same debt; are you not that one?
       To Belinda Randall, who has been here, as I told you, I was obliged for revealing Beethoven's tenderness. She is so soft and tender herself that she could not fail unconsciously to express it in her playing. I passed some fine evenings with her. Since I had been here I had heard no music, and felt that I needed to hear some as an adequate expression of all that I felt. When she came that demand was satisfied. Ole Bull satisfies the claim of the same nature which our whole life makes, and of itself creates, rather reveals newer and deeper demands, and so on, I suppose, until the celestial harmonies are heard by us.
       I heard from a friend of the last Philharmonic in New York. It seems they have made Vieux-temps an honorary member, and he played for them. On the same evening they performed one of Beethoven's symphonies. It is one of those accounts whose beauty is their nakedness. To lovers of music a bare description is as an outline to a painter which he can readily fill up and supply with the shadows and sunlight. Yet not he so magnificently as sunlight and shadows sweep over this landscape. It seems to me that a century of splendor has been rushing by since I have been here.
       The persons who make Concord famous I have hardly seen. The consciousness of their presence is like the feeling of lofty mountains whom the night and thick forests hide. Of one of them, E. Hoar, I need to say nothing to you. One evening I sat with her and Waldo Emerson and Geo. P. Bradford while Belinda Randall played and sang.
       Isaac brings you this, and will himself best tell you of himself. Burrill is well, and unites with me in remembrance to all who remember.
       Your friend,
       G.W.C. _

Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Intro
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 1
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 2
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 3
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 4
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 5
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 6
   Early Life At Brook Farm And Concord - Chapter 7
Early Letters To John S. Dwight
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 1
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 2
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 3
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 4
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 5
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 6
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 7
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 8
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 9
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 10
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 11
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 12
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 13
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 14
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 15
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 16
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 17
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 18
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 19
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 20
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 21
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 22
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 23
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 24
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 25
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 26
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 27
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 28
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 29
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 30
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 31
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 32
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 33
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 34
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 35
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 36
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 37
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 38
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 39
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 40
   Early Letters To John S. Dwight - Chapter 41
Letters Of Later Date
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 1
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 2
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 3
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 4
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 5
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 6
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 7
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 8
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 9
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 10
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 11
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 12
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 13
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 14
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 15
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 16
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 17
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 18
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 19
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 20
   Letters Of Later Date - Chapter 21