[126] The Wanderer was a slave-ship seized in New York harbor. A Charleston jury refused to convict the captain. [127] _Letters_, i. 286. [128] _Letters_, i. 281. [129] He was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 14 November, 1855, and into the Massachusetts Historical Society, 14 May, 1863, but he does not appear to have been a frequent attendant at the meetings of either of these bodies. [130] This criticism also is given in C. E. Stowe’s _The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe_. [131] Mr. Fields was in Europe when the transaction occurred. [132] “Experience of Samuel Absalom, Filibuster,” by D. Deaderick. [133] _Letters_, i. 310. May 23, 1861. [134] The household at Elmwood was broken in upon apparently not long after the return of the Lowells, by the death of Dr. Charles Lowell, 20 January, 1861. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2, by Horace Elisha Scudder