Twichell, Joseph Hopkins
(Southington, Conn. 1838-1918 Hartford, Conn.) : Pastor Asylum Hill Congregational Church Harford, Conn., Freund von Mark Twain
Subjects
History : China - United States of America
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Index of Names : Occident
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Religion : Christianity
Chronology Entries (5)
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| 1 | 1872-1875 | Joseph Hopkins Twichell helped and sponsored the project 'Chinese Educational Mission', proposed by Rong Hong and approved by Li Hongzhang. |
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| 2 | 1874 | Joseph Hopkins Twichell reported that ninety Chinese boys had already been sent to the New England states : "Here the boys are, and the Church of Christ is called upon to regard them with tender interest, to pray for them, and to watch them with real solicitude." |
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| 3 | 1874 |
Letter from Mark Twain to Dean Sage ; 22 April (1875), Hartford, Conn. "[Joseph Hopkins] Twichell & I were to do the Centennial together; but he had a remorseful streak after his loose career & indecent conversation in Brooklyn & while under the spell of it he concluded to stay at his post on Sunday. He preached twice that day, left here at [midnight], took an early breakfast in Boston, infested Concord & Lexington all day & reached Hartford after [midnight] that night, so as to be on hand early next day—for he had an opportunity to bury a Chinaman with some Congregational orgies & would h not have missed it for the world." |
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| 4 | 1880-1881 |
Letter from Mark Twain to William Dean Howells ; 24 Dec. (1880), Harford, Conn. Xmas Eve. "Next day I attended to business—which was, to introduce [Joseph Hopkins] Twichell to Gen. [James Hope] Grant & procure a private talk in the interest of the Chinese Educational Mission here in the U. S. Well, it was very funny. Joe had been sitting up nights building facts & arguments together into a mighty & unassalilable array, & had studied them out & got them by heart—all with the trembling half-hearted hope of getting Grant to add his signature to a sort of petition to the Viceroy of China; but Grant took in the whole situation in a jiffy, & before Joe had more than fairly got started, the old man said: "I'll write the Viceroy a letter—a separate letter—& bring strong reasons to bear upon him; I know him well., & what I say will have weight with him; yes, & with the advers I will attend to it right away. No, no thanks—I shall be glad to do it—it will be a labor of love." Letter from James Hope Grant to Mark Twain. (1881). "Li Hung Chang is the most powerful and most influential Chinaman in his country. He professed great friendship for me when I was there, and I have had assurances of the same thing since. I hope, if he is strong enough with his government, that the decision to withdraw the Chinese students from this country may be changed." Letter from Mark Twain to James Hope Grant ; March 16 (1881). "Your letter to Li Hung Chang [Li Hongzhang] has done its work, & the Chinese Educational Mission in Harford is saved. This cablegram mentions the receipt of your letter, & at the same time it commands the minister Chin to take Yung Wing [Rong Hong] into his consultations." |
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| 5 | 1909 |
Yung, Wing [Rong, Hong]. My life in China and America [ID D7870]. The breaking of the 'Chinese Educational Commission' and the young students in 1881 was not brought about without a strenuous effort on the part of some thoughtful men… who came forward in their quiet and modest ways to enter a protest against the revocation of the Mission. Chief among them were my life-long friend, the Rev. J.H. Twichell, and Rev. John W. Lane, through whose persistent efforts Presidents Porter and Seelye, Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain], T.F. Frelinghuysen, John Russell Young and others were enlisted and brought forward to stay the work of retrogression of the part of the Chinese. |
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