James Russell Lowell and His Friends

ILLUSTRATIONS

James Russell Lowell	Frontispiece
From the crayon by S.W. Rowse in the possession of Professor Charles Eliot Norton.	Page

Entrance to Elmwood	facing 4
From a photograph by Pach Brothers.

Rev. Charles Lowell	8
From a painting in the possession of Charles Lowell, Boston.

The Pasture, Elmwood	facing 12

From a photograph by Pach Brothers.

Edward Tyrrel Channing	facing 18

From the painting by Healy in Memorial Hall, Harvard University.

Nathan Hale	facing 36
From a photograph by Black.

Lowell’s Poem to his College Class	facing 50
From a printed copy lent by Mrs. Elizabeth Scates Beck, Germantown, Pa.

Facsimile of Programme of Valedictory Exercises of the Harvard Class of 1838	facing 52
Lent by Mrs. Elizabeth Scates Beck, Germantown, Pa.

James Russell Lowell	facing 74
From the crayon by William Page in the possession of Mrs. Charles F. Briggs, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Maria Lowell	facing 78
From the crayon by S. W. Rowse in the possession of Miss Georgina Lowell Putnam, Boston.

Charles F. Briggs	facing 84

From an ambrotype by Brady lent by Mrs. Charles F. Briggs, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Facsimile Contents Page of the Boston Miscellany. (The Authors’ names are in the handwriting of Nathan Hale)	facing 86

Facsimile of Lowell’s List of Friends to whom he presented copies of Conversations on the Old Poets. “The Don” was Robert Carter	facing 92
From the original MS. owned by General James Lowell Carter, Boston.

James Russell Lowell	facing 96
From a daguerreotype, taken in Philadelphia in 1844, owned by E.A. Pennock, Boston.

John Lowell, Jr.	facing 112
From a painting by Chester Harding in the possession of Augustus Lowell, Boston.

John Holmes, Estes Howe, Robert Carter, and James Russell Lowell	facing 114
From a photograph by Black owned by General James Lowell Carter, Boston.

Cornelius Conway Felton	facing 134
From a photograph lent by Miss Mary Sargent, Worcester,
Mass.

Elmwood	facing 138
From a photograph.

James T. Fields	facing 150
From the photograph by Mrs. Cameron.

Moses Dresser Phillips	facing 154
From a daguerreotype kindly lent by his daughter, Miss Sarah F. Phillips, West Medford, Mass.

Oliver Wendell Holmes	facing 158
From a photograph taken in 1862.

Facsimile of A Fable for Critics Proof-sheet with Lowell’s Corrections	facing 162
Kindly lent by Mrs. Charles F. Briggs, Brooklyn, N.Y.

William Wetmore Story	facing 164
From a photograph by Waldo Story lent by Miss Ellen Eldredge, Boston.

James Russell Lowell	facing 168
From a photograph taken by Dr. Holmes in 1864. The
print is signed by both Holmes and Lowell, and is kindly lent by Charles Akers, New York, N.Y.

Sydney Howard Gay	facing 178
From a photograph lent by Francis J. Garrison, Boston.

Elmwood	facing 182
From a photograph by Miss C.E. Peabody, Cambridge, Mass.

Robert Gould Shaw	facing 184
From a photograph lent by Francis J. Garrison, Boston.

William Lowell Putnam	facing 184
From the crayon by S.W. Rowse in the possession of Miss Georgina Lowell Putnam, Boston.

Charles Russell Lowell	facing 184
From the crayon by S.W. Rowse in the possession of Miss Georgina Lowell Putnam, Boston.

James Jackson Lowell	facing 184
From a photograph kindly lent by Miss Georgina Lowell Putnam, Boston.

Francis James Child	facing 186 Clyx.com