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65	Jaeson	Rockwell	m	He returned to the United States in 1847. He amused himself contributing articles, poetical translations, critical papers on the classics, and sketches of society to various journals, and in 1849 edited Selections from Catullus, for school use. In 1850, he published "Letters to the Hon. Horace Mann", being a reply to some strictures upon the characters of Girard and Astor. In 1852 a collection of his sketches on New York Society entitled "The Upper Ten Thousand", appeared in the Fraser Magazine. At the same time he published Five Years in an English University, in which he described the manners, customs, and mode of life but little understood in the United States. Bristed exhibited in his writings a keen appreciation of men and books. His wide scholarship makes his essays valuable, and marks his criticisms with the best qualities of a trained university man. He also published many clever poetical translations from the classics. In his later years he resided in Washington, D.C. He was a frequent contributor to the Galaxy under the pen-name "Carl Benson", and published The Interference Theory of Governments, a book denunciatory of tariff and prohibitory liquor laws, and Pieces of a Broken-down Critic. He was one of the trustees of the Astor Library from its founding.	Bristed was married to his first wife in New York upon his return to the United States in 1847. Laura Whetten Brevoort (1823–1861), sister of James Carson Brevoort. After his first wife's untimely death of heart disease, he was married to his second wife was Grace Ashburner Sedgwick (1833–1897), the daughter of Charles Sedgwick and Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight, by whom he had two sons and a daughter: Bristed died in Washington, D.C. on January 14, 1874. His funeral was held in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.	He returned to the United States in 1847. He amused himself contributing articles, poetical translations, critical papers on the classics, and sketches of society to various journals, and in 1849 edited Selections from Catullus, for school use. In 1850, he published "Letters to the Hon. Horace Mann", being a reply to some strictures upon the characters of Girard and Astor. In 1852 a collection of his sketches on New York Society entitled "The Upper Ten Thousand", appeared in the Fraser Magazine. At the same time he published Five Years in an English University, in which he described the manners, customs, and mode of life but little understood in the United States. Rockwell exhibited in his writings a keen appreciation of men and books. His wide scholarship makes his essays valuable, and marks his criticisms with the best qualities of a trained university man. He also published many clever poetical translations from the classics. In his later years he resided in Washington, D.C. He was a frequent contributor to the Galaxy under the pen-name "Carl Benson", and published The Interference Theory of Governments, a book denunciatory of tariff and prohibitory liquor laws, and Pieces of a Broken-down Critic. He was one of the trustees of the Astor Library from its founding.Rockwell was married to his first wife in New York upon his return to the United States in 1847. Laura Whetten Brevoort (1823–1861), sister of James Carson Brevoort. After his first wife's untimely death of heart disease, he was married to his second wife was Grace Ashburner Sedgwick (1833–1897), the daughter of Jaeson Sedgwick and Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight, by whom he had two sons and a daughter: Rockwell died in Washington, D.C. on January 14, 1874. His funeral was held in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.	Charles	Bristed	writers