Another upon Conservatism and Religion, was also printed in
the Bay State _Democrat_. As I did not give my name to Mr. Josselyn,
and as the letters were mailed at Groton, he came there and after
inquiries, called upon me. I admitted the authorship. This
acquaintance continued for many years, and for many years I was a
contributor to his paper. He was elected secretary of the Senate in
1843 by the Democratic Party. A little later I wrote an article
called "Gibbet Hill" in which I attempted to present the tradition
concerning the hill in Groton which bears that name. That article was
printed in the _Yeoman's Gazette_ or the Concord _Freeman_. For
several years beginning about the year 1836, I wrote one paper each
year called a lecture. Several of these papers were printed in Hunt's
_Merchants' Magazine_.
From 1835 to 1841 I occupied the store night and day and it was my
custom to read and write until twelve, one or two o'clock in the
morning. These were my years of hard study. Not infrequently, when
a tendency to sleep was too heavy for study, I bathed my face and head
in cold water and thus revived my faculties--a practice, however, that
I cannot commend. Early in my residence in Groton, I formed the
acquaintance and friendship of Dr. Amos B. Bancroft, a friendship which
continued until his death in Italy in the year 1879.
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