[91] Leaves from my Journal, Works, i. 213.
[92] It was more than thirty years later that Lowell wrote the significant poem suggested by this picture.
[93] Mr. Black’s daughter, Mrs. Hayllar, kindly sends the two prologues, which are in a way wholly from memory. Lowell afterwards, she writes, “tore up his notes, saying the lines were too insignificant for preservation, when to his astonishment, my father, who had a quite remarkable memory, repeated them both to him.” From her own memory Mrs. Hayllar recalled the bits of the first prologue, and afterward found amongst her father’s papers the whole of the second.
[94] See “Walter Savage Landor,” in Latest Literary Essays and Addresses, p. 51.
[95] The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, i. 188.
[96] Perhaps his partial friend Briggs was referring to this when he wrote, 18 March, 1860: “If you bring out that long promised volume of fireside travels, I hope you will not omit that racy chapter of the novel you read to me, but which you will never write. I think it was much better than anything of the Autocrat’s that I have read.”
[97] The lines on pp. 80, 81, of “Cambridge Thirty Years Ago” are also saved from the same poem, but from the unprinted portion.
[98] See his two letters to T. W. Higginson, outlining his plan, and published by the latter in his Old Cambridge.
[99] See letter to Mr. Norton, 13 April, 1884, Letters, ii. 279.
[100] “A Few of Lowell’s Letters” in The Old Rome and the New and other Studies, p. 134.