[101] The poem was not printed till April, 1858, when it appeared in The Atlantic Monthly.
[102] It was the custom when there was an unusual demand for tickets, for the lecturer, besides his Tuesday and Friday evening discourses, to repeat them on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. In those days also, applicants for tickets registered their names during a certain number of days in advance, and at the close of the registry notification was made that persons holding numbers divisible by two, three, four, or five, as the case might be (in the ratio of applicants to the number of seats in the hall), might call and receive tickets.
[103] Probably the verses beginning,—
“Farewell, for the bark has her breast to the tide.”
[104] “A Good Word for Winter,” in Literary Essays, iii. 267.
[105] “Mr. Lowell as a Teacher:” Scribner’s Magazine, November, 1891. Included in his volume Stelligeri: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
[106] “Address before the Modern Language Association of America.”
[107] 21 August, 1857.
[108] 31 August, 1857.
[109] 31 December, 1857.