[82] These letters from Hawthorne were first printed in the London _Athenæum_, 10, 17 August, 1889, and have since been included in vol. xvii. of the _Old Manse Edition_ of Hawthorne’s writings. [83] An article on Landor. [84] In a note to T. W. Higginson, who proposed an article in the _Atlantic_ on Parker, Lowell wrote 28 June, 1860: “I think that folks have confounded (as they commonly do) _force_ with _power_ in estimating him, and so have overrated him.” [85] _The Liberty Bell._ [86] _The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America._ By Fredrika Bremer. New York: Harper & Bros. 1853. Vol. i. pp. 130, 131. [87] See _Boston Courier_, 3 January, 1850. [88] “The Darkened Mind.” [89] Whether or no this started Mr. Gay on an historical investigation, he did inquire into the matter; for thirty years later he published in the _Atlantic_ for November, 1881, an article entitled, “When did the Pilgrim Fathers land at Plymouth?” in which he established to his own satisfaction that the first landing was neither on the 21st or 22d, but on the 4th of January, 1621. [90] In another letter written on shipboard, Lowell refers to the gift thus: “I held it in especial esteem because it was given in a way so characteristic of John, who sidled up to me as if he were asking a favor instead of doing one, and having slipped it into my hand in a particularly let-not-your-right-hand-know-what-your-left-hand-doeth kind of manner, instantly vanished and remained absconded for half an hour.” [91] _Leaves from my Journal, Works_, i. 213. [92] It was more than thirty years later that Lowell wrote the significant poem suggested by this picture. [93] Mr. Black’s daughter, Mrs. Hayllar, kindly sends the two prologues, which are in a way wholly from memory. Lowell afterwards, she writes, “tore up his notes, saying the lines were too insignificant for preservation, when to his astonishment, my father, who had a quite remarkable memory, repeated them both to him.” From her own memory Mrs. Hayllar recalled the bits of the first prologue, and afterward found amongst her father’s papers the whole of the second. [94] See “Walter Savage Landor,” in _Latest Literary Essays and Addresses_, p. 51. [95] _The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough_, i. 188. [96] Perhaps his partial friend Briggs was referring to this when he wrote, 18 March, 1860: “If you bring out that long promised volume of fireside travels, I hope you will not omit that racy chapter of the novel you read to me, but which you will never write. I think it was much better than anything of the Autocrat’s that I have read.” [97] The lines on pp. 80, 81, of “Cambridge Thirty Years Ago” are also saved from the same poem, but from the unprinted portion. [98] See his two letters to T. W. Higginson, outlining his plan, and published by the latter in his _Old Cambridge_. [99] See letter to Mr. Norton, 13 April, 1884, _Letters_, ii. 279.