[88] January, 1897. “Conversations with Mr. Lowell.”
[89] Literary Essays, iv.
[90] “The Place of the Independent in Politics,” in Literary and Political Addresses.
[91] 13 August, 1891.
[92] Report No. 1188, 49th Congress, 1st session, p. 28.
[93] All these remarks were stenographically reported and subjected probably to little revision, certainly to none by the speaker.
[94] Mr. James Welsh, representing the Typographical Union.
[95] See supra, vol. i. p. 293.
[96] “I went also,” he says, after hunting up the magazine in the Athenæum, “to see Whittier, who was in town. He was very cordial. There is a wrinkled freshness about him as of a russet apple in April, but I fear we shan’t have him much longer.”
[97] A month before Mr. Gilder had asked for a poem, and Lowell had put him off thus: “Rhymes for Gilder indeed! He doesn’t need ’em for he can make ’em. But I have a pocketful. I give you one at a time:—