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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
ther day, that his father never would call himself a Unitarian, and that he was old-fashioned in his home tenets and discipline. Mr. L. [Lowell] was under pretty heavy pressure, as you know, when I saw him, but holding his own with some composure — for a poet. Again thanking you, I am, Always truly yrs., E. C. Stedman. This must have been answered by some further expression of solicitude, for this reply came, two months later,-- University Club, 370 Fifth Avenue, New York, Sunday, Sept. 16, 1883. My dear Higginson,--There is a good deal, say what you will, in moral support. I have proved it during the last few weeks: 't would have been hard to get through with them, but for just such words as yours. And I have had them in such abundance that, despite rather poor displays of human nature in a sample of my own manufacture, I am less than ever a pessimist. As for that which Sophocles pronounced the father of meanness-peni/a-both my wife and myself have been used to it n