The Lofer War Being an account of a long & obstinate war, carried out between the Huddarites & the Lofers
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Charles Astor Bristed

The Lofer War Being an account of a long & obstinate war, carried out between the Huddarites & the Lofers (2010)

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NEW YORK CITY IN 1835A LONG ALLEGORICAL MANUSCRIPT IN PROSE AND VERSE BY JOHN JACOB ASTOR'S 15-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON ABOUT "LOFERS" AND "DANDIES", REV. R. T. HUDDART'S CLASSICAL INSTITUTE, INCLUDING MUCH ABOUT ONE OF HIS TEACHERS, CLASSICAL SCHOLAR AND SPORTING AUTHOR HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, i.e. "FRANK FORESTER","A MAN OF GREAT GENIUS"BRISTED, Charles [Astor] (1820-1874). American scholar and author, grandson of John Jacob Astor. 4to, long, original unpaginated AMSs entitled The Lofer War. Being an account of a long & obstinate war, carried out between the Huddartites & the Lofers, together with some account of that extraordinary People. Compiled by Herman Confucius from fragments found among the papers of the late Peter Confucius, & from the notes of Oroondates Mauran Jr., & a correspondent. Approx. 109 pages, composed dos-à-dos, with additions and deletions, written on both sides, the second section being Bristed's manuscript copy of the poem Fanny, by family friend Fitz-Greene Halleck, private secretary to J. J. Astor, Signed "Charles Bristed" on end leaf, and also with signature "Eliza Matilda Astor." Bound in beautiful contemporary American full crimson morocco, covers with center rectangular border surrounding blind roll border, floral corners; edges with elaborately gilt 5/8" wide floral border, spine elaborately gold stamped in 5 compartments, inner gilt dentelles, marbled end papers bearing ticket of "Arnold & Grubb/ Booksellers and Binders/ 289 1/2 Main St./ Poughkeepsie" (who are not noted in Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings Through 1876.), A.e.g. N.p., n.d. [i.e. Hellgate, East River, New York: 1835]. An intriguing look at the upper and lower classes in 1830's New York through the pen of a fifteen year-old brilliant scholar, John Jacob Astor's favored grandson, almost certainly written at Hellgate, Astor's home on the East River. "Bristed's mother died when he was twelve, and he was then brought up in John Jacob Astor's house in Hellgate, on the East River, near New York. Here he belonged to a bachelor household frequented by the poet Fitz-Greene Halleck (see below) and the Anglophile writer Washington Irving. At school in New York he was taught by an eccentric Cambridge graduate, Henry Herbert, who was later to pioneer the professional literature of sport and hunting in the USA under the pseudonym 'Frank Forester'. Young Bristed was sent to the nearby Columbia College, but soon withdrawn and entered at Yale in 1835, still aged only fifteen."-Christopher Stray, An American in Victorian England: Charles Astor Bristed's 'Five Years in an English University(2008), p. xvi. Besides his books, he published over 200 articles between 1841 and his death in 1874. As Stray says, he became a serious scholar and, at the same time, a playboy, "a man about town, but a learned and cultured one. He both worked and played hard." See also, Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert) (1882), edited by David Wright Judd, pp. 14-18, wherein it is written: "It is simply just to mention, in this connection, that Herbert may have been said to have moulded the individual characters of more than one of Huddart's students, who, in obedience to his precepts and example, have subsequently distinguished themselves in literature and field sports, notably among whom can be cited Charles Astor Bristed..." John Jacob Astor's "munificence towards this grandson was special...sent him to Yale and later Trinity College, Cambridge, and bequeathed to him both the Broadway residence and Hellgate and enough money to allow him to live a gentleman's life. He became an author of twenty-one books. His most famous was The Upper Ten Thousand: Sketches of American Society. He told his readers the title, coined from a fashion magazine, was an exaggeration. Society should be counted in the hundreds...His nephew's wife...would put the number at four hundred, the number of guests her ballroom could accommodate."-Axel Madsen, John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire (2002), p. 222. We date the manuscript from abundant internal evidence, including a reference to a war "pending between Michigan and Ohio", i.e. the Toledo War, 1835-1836. Bristed, the man who would ratified the term "Upper Ten Thousand", here writes about "Lofers" and "Dandies" early in life. Rev. Richard Townsend Huddart (born ca. 1804), an Englishman, "of violent temper", came to this country in the early 1830's and opened a school located at 5 Beaver Street, near the Battery. Huddart moved on to San Francisco around 1849. One of Bristed's teachers there was the great sporting novelist, English-born Henry William Herbert, who wrote as "Frank Forester". Having fled to New York in 1831 he accepted employment as a classics master at Rev. Huddart's Classical Institute. "He remained there for eight years, during which his engaging eccentric manner and outlandish dress brought him a social cachet among sportsmen, literary men, and educated merchant leaders...as a classical scholar he had few equals in North America, and his translations from Greek, Roman, and French originals received high praise."-ODNB. His influence on young Bristed is evident in this manuscript. Undoubtedly a fondness for the classics and field sports and the turf (Bristed was to become a contributor to the Spirit of the Times), helped bring master and scholar together. Bristed graduated with honors from Yale in 1839 at 19, and made honors at Trinity College, Cambridge. At his death in 1874, Rev. Increase N. Tarbox, D. D. reminisced about him in The College Courant, Saturday, February 14, 1874, saying, in part: "He had been fitted for college in New York city under the tuition of most accomplished teachers, one of whom was an Englishman by the name of Herbert. Bristed's knowledge of Latin and Greek, at that time, was a marvel to many of his classmates..." Bristed here gives the names of the many teachers who came and went, noting the subjects they taught, and introduces Herbert thusly: "None of these deserve particular mention except Herbert. He was an Englishman, descended from a noble house; & having given security for a worthless acquaintance, was nearly ruined. He then fled to this country. He was a pleasant man in conversation, but had a violent temper which was easily excited if a boy happened to stammer, (potter as he called it) or stopped a moment, his 'go on'! might be heard at Castle Garden; & if one was detected in the act of whispering, he was instantly sent to his seat. It was no wonder then that Herbert was disliked by all the boys except some of his favorites. Mauran gave him the praenomen 'Return Again', because he often 'returned' the boys, i.e. wrote the names of those who were deficient or troublesome on a piece of paper & sent them to head quarters. Junius & Prout have immortalised him in their poems, & others of the boys have endeavored to hold him up to ridicule. With all his faults Herbert was & is a man of great genius. He has long been editor of a magazine which he has conducted with great success: he has just brought out a new annual called the Magnolia; & to crown all, has lately given up teaching, and become sub-editor of a certain great paper." In a "sort of parody on Harold the Dauntless" he writes, "List to the tale of the deeds that were done/ By Henry Bill Herbert, who hither did come,' Bill Herbert was one of a numerous train/ Who fled for debt, o'er the raging main/ Hove to our school since he's taught us for there/ Is shedding of tears & rending of hair/ Wail of scholar & sound of rattan/ Hand-ache of boy, & ear ache of man./ When he raised his voice to its utmost yell/ What more could surpass it you could not tell./ & When it was dying away in a growl, It seemed like a wolf's, when at night does prowl." Followed by "tales" about Herbert in both prose and poetry, including a long poem about Herbert's fury directed at a "dunderhead" scholar. He refers to verse by a classmate calling attention to "Huddart's hate & Herbert's spite."As a writer Bristed has been called "always a brilliant author--daring, cultivated, inclined to be cynical, decided."-MottIII, p. 363. The first 109 pages contain the thinly veiled allegory of the "United Lofers" against the "Huddartites", i.e. Bristed and his fellow scholars at Rev. Huddart's school, written in the manner of Sallust's "Jurgurthine War." "The name of Lofer, which was once a passport in every part of this fair city, is now coupled with the vilest of mankind; & we, who formerly enjoyed the freedom of Broadway, & strolled wherever we wished independent as the porkers that luxuriated in the gutters, are now, like those ancient & goodly animals, compelled to hide ourselves in holes and corners, to lofe around wharves, & to skulk among hogs-heads of sugar & molasses, seeking what we may devour. This is the present state of our circumstances, & it is high time that it should be put a stop to...Now about a year & three quarters after the establishment of the Huddartites, a singular design entered in to the heads of the leading Lofers, which was no other than to wage war against all the schools in the city. The reason for this was, I believe as follows. The Lofers had for some years been unnoticed. They had done nothing of importance. It is true that some rows had been kicked up, but sailors & negroes had acted the principal parts in them. Besides this, small parties of the Lofers had been frequently defeated by the Engine Volunteers. These Volunteers though frequently engaged in very Lofer-like employments were at times very well dressed, & promenaded Broadway and other principal streets, as well as the more numerous classes whom the Lofers called Dandies. This was very vexatious to the Lofers...[they had] three different plans...they should perambulate, tearing down the signs, transposing them, breaking widows, throwing down awning-posts...The second...divide themselves into as many squads as there were Engine-houses; ...attack the volunteers in the different companies...The third project was...make war on all the schools in the city one after another; & that parties should be appointed to scour the Battery, Park, Parade ground & streets adjacent, & to attack all scholars they found there...Most of them were provided with clubs, which were generally made of broomsticks with a string through a hole in the upper end, à la Shillelah. Some of these were painted black..." For a history of the rowdy fire houses, essentially social clubs, of this period, see The Lost Museum Archive, online, and read Charles Dickens. The "United Lofers" planned to attack the fire volunteers, and all schools (excepting free schools) "in said city of Gotham against all the scholars therein, in school or out of school, reading or playing; eating or drinking; at home or abroad; running or walking, now forever & a fortnight afterwards..." The text of "Lofer" proclamations of intent are given. The tale ends: "It is pretty certain then that a battle was fought, that the Lofers were superior in numbers, & that they were defeated. The rest is not as well ascertained." . Bristed gives an account of the "Huddartites" under Rev. Huddart, who he says was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, had financial trouble, and had fled to America with his wife and three children before the bailiff caught up with him. For a view of Bristed and New York society, see Caleb Crain, The Early Literature of New York's Moneyed Class, in The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York (2010). Bristed would write for many periodicals, sometimes humorously as "Carl Benson", and his books include Five Years' in an English University (1852); Pieces of a Broken-Down Critic (1858), Anacreontics,being verses on wine, and many others. See DAB. The second section is Bristed's manuscript is a copy of Fitz-Greene Halleck's Fanny, a long, popular satire on the literature, fashions and politics of the period, first published anonymously in 1819, reprinted several times, including in 1833, from which this copy might presumably be drawn. The connection between Halleck and the Astor's was such that he was must have certainly been well known to young Charles Bristed, the philanthropist's favorite, and they were close, presumably. When Bristed was twelve, in 1832, Halleck became John Jacob Astor's private secretary and personal advisor. He served as Astor's cultural tutor, and was one of the original trustees of the Astor Library, future New York Public Library. ABAA-VBF.
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