[120] Most of this letter is given in Mr. Pickard’s Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier.
[121] “The Origin of Didactic Poetry.”
[122] I recall the sententious principle which another editor announced to me as the rule by which he was governed. “The only question I ask myself is, must I take this?”
[123] Letters, i. 288, 289.
[124] There are three or four witty passages, to which this is applicable.
[125] See Letters, i. 283, 284.
[126] The Wanderer was a slave-ship seized in New York harbor. A Charleston jury refused to convict the captain.
[127] Letters, i. 286.
[128] Letters, i. 281.
[129] He was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 14 November, 1855, and into the Massachusetts Historical Society, 14 May, 1863, but he does not appear to have been a frequent attendant at the meetings of either of these bodies.