James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2

Lowell’s writing during the war, and very largely also during the four previous years in which he had been engaged on the _Atlantic_, was mainly of a political character, and it...

This is the heading of a sheet in his own handwriting which Lowell drew up for Robert Carter’s instruction. He entrusted the distribution of the books to his friend, as he himse...

When the _Atlantic Monthly_ was founded, its conductors did not conceal their intention to make it a political magazine. It bore as its sub-head a title it has never relinquishe...

The two and a half years that Lowell passed at Madrid formed an excellent preparation for the more important post which he was to occupy near the Court of St. James. The etiquet...

Elmwood was let, and if it had been vacant Lowell could hardly have gone back there at once to live. There were too many ghosts in the house, he said. He made no attempt to take...

The preparation which Lowell had received for efficient service as Minister of the United States to Spain certainly did not lie in the discharge of so-called political duties. T...

The Lowells returned at once to Elmwood, which the Aldrich family had relinquished on the first of July, and were welcomed by Mrs. Burnett and the first grandson, who had come d...

Lowell went again to England in the spring of 1888, and in June to Bologna, where he was a delegate from Harvard on the occasion of the celebration of the eight hundredth annive...

When Lowell went to Europe in the summer of 1872, he left his college routine behind him; with his new-found liberty, he seemed to find all the expression he cared for in famili...

453; ii. 19, 33, 40, 44, 48, 65, 67, 116, 139, 140, 176, 193, 202, 204, 218, 219, 227, 262, 356. Letter to, from J. R. L. on village music, i. 25; letter to, from J. R. L. on Je...

When the Rev. Delmar R. Lowell was collecting material for _The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America_, he had for use two letters from Lowell, which he has printed in fa...