| 词条 | Thomas Aspinwall (consul) |
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Thomas was born to Dr. William Aspinwall and Susanna Gardner in Brookline, Massachusetts on 23 May 1786.[2] He matriculated at Harvard College in 1804 and graduated three years later, delivering the Latin valedictory address.[3] In the War of 1812, Aspinwall was appointed Major of the Ninth Regiment, U.S. Infantry. In 1813 he was made a Lieutenant-Colonel and eventually a Colonel on account of his valor in the battle of Sackett Harbor. In 1814 he sustained an injury to his left arm that required an amputation. In recognition of his service, President Madison appointed him consul to London during a recess, and he was confirmed at the beginning of the subsequent legislative session.[4] While in London, Aspinwall acted as a literary agent and a liaison between American authors and British publishers.[5] The American historian and Hispanist William Prescott, for instance, engaged with him in this capacity, as did Washington Irving, who was a close friend. He also procured books for Americans unable to do so, as for instance in the case of the abolitionist Lewis Tappan.[6] Aspinwall died 11 August 1876 in Boston. Notes1. ^Charles C. Smith, "Memoirs of Col. Thomas Aspinwall, A.M." in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society Second series, vol. VII (1891), 32. 2. ^Smith (1891) 32. 3. ^Smith (1891) 33. 4. ^Smith (1891) 33-4. 5. ^James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes, "Thomas Aspinwall: First Transatlantic Literary Agent" in The Paper of the Bibliographic Society of America 78.3 (1984): 321-31.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/24302830] 6. ^Pryor-Johnson Rare Books weblog. References
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