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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

A BIOGRAPHY

BY

HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

A Biography

BY

HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901
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COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HORACE E. SCUDDER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1901
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TO

G·O·S·

“NAUGHT CAN BE UNWORTHY, DONE FOR YOU.”

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PREFACE

The existence of the two volumes of Letters of James Russell Lowell,edited by Charles Eliot Norton, has determined the character of thisbiography. If they had not been published, I might have made a Life andLetters which would have been in the main Lowell’s own account ofhimself, in his voluminous correspondence, annotated only by suchfurther account of him as his letters failed to supply. As it is, thoughI have had access to a great many letters not contained in Mr. Norton’swork, I have thought it desirable not so much to supplement theLetters with other letters, as to complement those volumes with a moreformal biography, using such letters or portions of letters as I printfor illustration of my subject, rather than as the basis of thenarrative.

I have kept the Letters always by my side as my main book ofreference; by the courtesy of their editor and by arrangement with theirpublishers, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, I have now and then drawn uponthem where it seemed especially desirable that Lowell should speak forhimself, but{viii} their greatest use to me has been in their disclosure of

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