[130] This criticism also is given in C. E. Stowe’s The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
[131] Mr. Fields was in Europe when the transaction occurred.
[132] “Experience of Samuel Absalom, Filibuster,” by D. Deaderick.
[133] Letters, i. 310. May 23, 1861.
[134] The household at Elmwood was broken in upon apparently not long after the return of the Lowells, by the death of Dr. Charles Lowell, 20 January, 1861.