[81] That is, the hostile criticisms of his book.
[82] These letters from Hawthorne were first printed in the London Athenæum, 10, 17 August, 1889, and have since been included in vol. xvii. of the Old Manse Edition of Hawthorne’s writings.
[83] An article on Landor.
[84] In a note to T. W. Higginson, who proposed an article in the Atlantic on Parker, Lowell wrote 28 June, 1860: “I think that folks have confounded (as they commonly do) force with power in estimating him, and so have overrated him.”
[85] The Liberty Bell.
[86] The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America. By Fredrika Bremer. New York: Harper & Bros. 1853. Vol. i. pp. 130, 131.
[87] See Boston Courier, 3 January, 1850.
[88] “The Darkened Mind.”
[89] Whether or no this started Mr. Gay on an historical investigation, he did inquire into the matter; for thirty years later he published in the Atlantic for November, 1881, an article entitled, “When did the Pilgrim Fathers land at Plymouth?” in which he established to his own satisfaction that the first landing was neither on the 21st or 22d, but on the 4th of January, 1621.
[90] In another letter written on shipboard, Lowell refers to the gift thus: “I held it in especial esteem because it was given in a way so characteristic of John, who sidled up to me as if he were asking a favor instead of doing one, and having slipped it into my hand in a particularly let-not-your-right-hand-know-what-your-left-hand-doeth kind of manner, instantly vanished and remained absconded for half an hour.”