[32] Letters, i. 408.
[33] After all Whittier changed his mind and gave his book the title “Among the Hills.”
[34] The bookbinder who wanted the lettering for the volume.
[35] Originally designed to make part of The Nooning.
[36] George Eliot’s The Spanish Gipsy.
[37] It was Gobright’s Recollections.
[38] Lowell amplified this thought in his paper on Chaucer, Literary Essays, iii. 299, 300.
[39] Letters, ii. 5. There was a reciprocity of feeling, if we may judge from the striking fact that on the right, within the gate which leads to the impressive common tomb of the Army of Tennessee, in New Orleans, is an inscription taken from Lowell’s poem, “On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington.”
“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”
[40] Perhaps it was on this journey that she told Mrs. Fields she never thought of her father as a poet, but just her father.