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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 6: the Cambridge group (search)
sachusetts stock. As a schoolboy Lowell showed little regular industry, but a great deal of cleverness and an insatiable hunger for good reading. The first letter from Lowell which I have in my collection, written somewhere about the age of fourteen, shows how early the quality of humor set in. It was written on the occasion of returning to my brother Thacher a volume of Sallust, an author then required for examination by those entering college. Copy. [ Verbatim ac Literatim.] My Dear Thach, In the course of human events when the mind becomes indued with active spirit with powerfull imagin ation, with extensive enter prise with noble design ty — Then My boy. Then is the time to return to you this — Sallust Yrs J. R. L. In this cheery announcement there is a curious foreshadowing of the imaginings, enterprises, and designties of his own life, and we can see whence he derived that gay and elastic spirit which made his later lectures delightful to his students at the Uni