Bristed

Coined by American poet N.P. Willis to describe fashionable New York of the 1840s and 1850s, in 1852, Charles Astor Bristed penned The upper ten thousand; sketches of American society.

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According to Charles Bristed, the editor of an American magazine is owner, part-owner, at least, of the establishment.

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And in an April 23, 1811, letter to John Bristed, April 23, 1811, he wrote:

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Bristed, in his record of English University life, foretold of

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Meantime, not a line or word reached me from Bristed

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I had lived six weeks at Bristed Hall, and, excepting on my first arrival, had not interchanged a word with its master.

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Yielding to this intense feeling, I arranged my affairs, and taking a coach, set off early in the morning for the train which would convey me to Bristed Hall.

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His fault is, as Bristed says, that he is superficial; his virtue, that he is straightforward and earnest in aiming at practical life.

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About this time he explained satisfactorily, to my credulous mind, the cause of his sudden retreat from Bristed Hall, and gave me reason to believe that the statements his brother had made concerning him were untrue and evil in design.

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Early the next morning Mr. Bristed accompanied the lifeless body of little Herbert to Bristed Hall.

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