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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
From the crayon by S.W. Rowse in the possession of Professor Charles Eliot Norton
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AND HIS FRIENDS
PREFACE
When my friend Mr. Howland, of the “Outlook”magazine, asked me if I could write for thatmagazine a Life of James Russell Lowell, I said atonce that I could not. While there were certainperiods of our lives when we met almost daily, forother periods we were parted, so that for many yearsI never saw him. I said that the materials for anyLife of him were in the hands of others, who wouldprobably use them at the proper time.
Then M