FOOTNOTES:

[63] Keith Spence was born at Kirkwall, Orkney. Mrs. Lowell had Orcadian ancestors on both sides of the house, her maternal grandfather, Robert Traill, having also come from Orkney.

[64] January, February, and March, 1843.

[65] Scudder.

[66] H. R. Haweis: American Humorists.

[67] The remarkable paper on Lincoln was afterwards transferred to the volume of Political Essays.

[68] January, 1845, to November, 1850.

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