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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 6 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 12 (search)
wing letter came from Keep Rock, New Castle, New Hampshire, September 30, 1887:-- You are a noble kinsman after all, of the sort from whom one is very glad to get good words, and I have taken your perception of a bit of verse as infallible, ever since you picked out three little Stanzas for Music as my one best thing. Every one else had overlooked them, but I knew that-as Holmes said of his Chambered Nautilus --they were written better than I could. By the way, if you will overhaul Duyckinck's Encyclopedia of literature in re Dr. Samuel Mitchill, you will see who first wrote crudely the Chambered Nautilus. Two years after, he wrote, April 9, 1889:-- The newspapers warn me that you are soon to go abroad .... I must copy for you now the song which you have kindly remembered so many years. In sooth, I have always thought well of your judgment as to poetry, since you intimated (in The Commonwealth, was it not?) that these three stanzas of mine were the thing worth having