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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
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In the list of our dead
this year appears the name
of Wm Bull Wright. If I am
not mistaken some of our
orators and or essayists have
mentioned the fact, probably
not intending it as a reproach
that our family has produced
no famous men or women.
I doubt not that if Prof.
Wright had lived and re-
gained his health, he would
have taken away that reproach.
He was unquestionably the
most learned and deeply read
of any of Wm Bull’s descendants.
As a poet the late Geo Ripley,
the first of American critics, ac-
corded him high rank. He
said that his poetry "not only gives
a rare promise of future ex-
cellence but at once legitimates
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the place of the writer among the
few genuine singers of the day."
In view of this high praise
from this veteran critic, let it
be no longer said that the Bull
family has produced no men
of note.
Almost from the very
outset our secretaries have scorned
to be mere dry annalists, and have
encroached badly upon the
province of the orator of the
day. I said "almost from the
very outset" for the record of
the first picnic is a model
of brevity. If we had been
content to imitate the sim-
plicity and dignity of that re-
port, this book instead
of being pretty nearly full, would
have lasted until a
second or third generation would