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Not particularly scarce in WorldCat, but this example may be of
particular interest as an association copy
Burrow, Edward John
THE ELGIN MARBLES, With an Abridged Historical and Topographical
Account of Athens.
London: 1837. 263p. + Forty plates drawn by the Author.
Nice bright 8vo hc copy with a tad of wear. Henry Ward Beecher copy with
his sort of bookplate and autograph in pencil.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher
<<< At age fourteen, he began his oratorical training at Mt. Pleasant
Classical Institution, a boarding school in Amherst, Massachusetts,
where he met a fellow student, Constantine Fondolaik, a Smyrna Greek
whose parents had been massacred by Turks.[2] The sensational poet
Lord Byron was the ultimate in romantic ideals of the day, having died
of fever fighting for Greek independence against Turkey, and Beecher
saw that exoticism, as well all the romantic passion that his family
frowned on, embodied in Fondolaik. Beecher referred to him as "...the
most beautiful thing I had ever seen...a young Greek God".[6] Both
students attended Amherst College together, and it is probable that in
his relationship with Fondolaik, Beecher, for the first time, received
the sort of unstinting affection that had been lacking in his family
life. He described the "contract" of friendship and "brotherly love"
they entered into, and wrote that they were "connected by a love that
cannot be broken."[7] Beecher signed this contract "H.C. Beecher",
with the "C" standing for "Constantine". Fondolaik died of cholera in
1842, just hours after his return to Greece, but Beecher's worship of
him would endure for the next thirty years. He named his third son
after him, and never attended any Mount Pleasant reunions, since the
one schoolmate he would hope to see "will never greet me."[7]]
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