[108] An examination made after Lowell’s death showed that the bleeding with which the sickness began eighteen months or more previously was the first step in the course of the growth of a cancer of the kidney. The disease had extended to the liver, and at the last to the lungs.
[109] See an interesting note by W. J. Stillman in the Spectator, 1 July, 1899.
[110] For these details I am indebted to statements made by Mrs. Mary Lowell Putnam and to The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899. Compiled and edited by Delmar R. Lowell.
[111] As Mrs. Lowell’s paternal ancestry went back but two generations on this side of the Atlantic, it has been thought well to trace her grandmother’s descent from Robert Cutt [the name later becoming Cutts], who was in the same generation with John Lowell, the son of the first Perceval Lowell. I am indebted for most of this material to Genealogy of the Cutts family in America, compiled by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard. Albany: Joel Munsell’s Sons. 1892.
[112] Abbreviated afterward in this record as “Standard.”