Autograph Letter, Signed.

Dwight, John S. (Sullivan).

Published by Dated Boston, Sept 5th, (no year). "Dear Parker" (Theodore Parker), inviting him to ".a gathering - an 'Aesthetic Tea' - composed of our friends at Mr. Clarke's, at Dr. Freeman's in Newton, tomorrow afternoon.I hope you will be there without fail, & be there early - they are delightful meetings, I can assure you." E.T.A. Hoffman wrote a story called "Die ästhetische Teegesellschaft" ("The Aesthetic Tea Society") in 1821. Thomas Carlyle mentions "aesthetic tea" in a review in the Foreign Review in 1828 of Sketch of the Life of Frederick Werner, by the Editor of Hoffman’s Life and Remains. It appears again in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, 1834. John Lothrop Motley includes an aesthetic tea in his novel Morton’s Hope, 1839. Dwight’s friend George
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