Gardiner, of whom it was told that, when a parishioner of his, the Hon.
I was the eldest, Ralph the youngest.įor our A B C we went to a Dame’s school in Summer Street, opposite to Trinity Church, a homely wooden building then, with neither steeple nor tower. I recollect playing with him and the late Samuel Bradford ( Treasurer, years after, of the Reading Railroad), under my mother’s eye, on the floor in the old house where I was born, in Federal Street, Boston, when our ages ranged between six and eight. Our earliest acquaintance must have neighbored to our babyhood. I CANNOT remember the time when Ralph Emerson and myself were not acquainted.
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