JAMES R. LOWELL - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 23275
Price: $260.00
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Signed autograph note, accompanied by an envelope addressed in his
hand and posted in London while he was U.S. Minister there
Autograph Note signed: "With love to Lilla,/Yours always/J. R.
Lowell", 3¾x1¾. Toned and irregularly cut. Otherwise,fine condition.
Accompanied by autograph envelope, unsigned, addressed by him to D. F.
MacCarthy, Notting Hill Terrace, W., bearing printed return address of the US
Legation in London, postmarked London, July 21, 1880. 4¼x3¼. Heavily toned,
soiled and creased. Corners creased and chipped. Paper tape at right edge on
verso. The works of James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) include poetry
(Commemoration Ode, Under the Willows, Three Memorial
Poems) and prose (Fireside Travels, Among My Books,
Political Essays). Lowell, who wrote in conventional rhyme and meter, was
considered one of the "Fireside Poets", whose works were popular for family
reading. Lowell, who succeeded to Longfellow's chair at Harvard (1855-1876),
was also the first editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1857). Lowell was
U.S. Minister to Spain (1877-1880) and Great Britain (1880-1885),
employing his legal, literary and linguistic talents to good effect in both
posts. Lowell was, of course, a member of the venerable Lowell family, of whom
it was said in Boston that "the Cabots speak only to Lowells, and the Lowells
speak only to God." Two items.
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