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AMONG MY BOOKS
Second Series
by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
To R.W. EMERSON.
A love and honor which more than thirty years have deepened, though priceless to him they enrich, are of little import to one capable of inspiring them. Yet I cannot deny myself the pleasure of so far intruding on your reserve as at least to make public acknowledgment of the debt I can never repay.