[69] _Letters_, ii. 200-202. [70] Copied in _Impressions of Spain_, pp. 53-72. [71] Señor Cánovas del Castillo. [72] See, for the larger part, _Impressions of Spain_, pp. 23-42. [73] “Bare is back without a brother behind it.” _Norse Proverb._ [74] _Letters_, i 343. [75] _New York Tribune_, 16 August, 1891. [76] _Auld Lang Syne_, p. 179. [77] The succession of Mr. Arthur to the presidency naturally set flying all sorts of rumors about a fresh deal in high offices. [78] The old inn at which he and the Fields had formerly stayed. [79] “E Pluribus Unum,” _Political Essays_, pp. 67, 68. Printed first in the _Atlantic Monthly_, February, 1861. [80] Despatch No. 132, dated 26 February, 1881. [81] _Foreign Relations_, 1881, p. 543. [82] The title of the act, called sometimes the “coercion” sometimes the “protection” act, was “An act for the better protection of person and property in Ireland.” [83] Mr. Frelinghuysen had succeeded Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State. [84] _The New York Tribune_, 5, 6 April, 1882. [85] _The Spectator_, 1 August, 1891. [86] _Letters_, ii. 293, 294. [87] _The Athenæum_, 22 August, 1891. [88] January, 1897. “Conversations with Mr. Lowell.” [89] _Literary Essays_, iv. [90] “The Place of the Independent in Politics,” in _Literary and Political Addresses_. [91] 13 August, 1891. [92] Report No. 1188, 49th Congress, 1st session, p. 28. [93] All these remarks were stenographically reported and subjected probably to little revision, certainly to none by the speaker. [94] Mr. James Welsh, representing the Typographical Union. [95] See _supra_, vol. i. p. 293. [96] “I went also,” he says, after hunting up the magazine in the Athenæum, “to see Whittier, who was in town. He was very cordial. There is a wrinkled freshness about him as of a russet apple in April, but I fear we shan’t have him much longer.” [97] A month before Mr. Gilder had asked for a poem, and Lowell had put him off thus: “Rhymes for Gilder indeed! He doesn’t need ’em for he can make ’em. But I have a pocketful. I give you one at a time:-- “Love to Mrs. Gilder _And_ to all the childer.” After that, in a series of brief notes called out by the Landor article, there was a peppering of these lines, each note ending in a couplet, as-- “Give my love to Mrs. Gilder, Hope this weather hasn’t chill’d her.” “Love to Mrs. Gilder, Glad that it thrilled her.” “Love to Mrs. Gilder: At her birth kind fairies filled her (to be continued in my next).” “(Continued) Cup with all sweet gifts and trilled her (to be continued)” but in his next he is obliged to write: “I have lost my cue in the epic poem to Mrs. Gilder’s address. I thought I could carry it in my memory, but find that her pocket has holes in it.” [98] That is, by parting with more of his land in Cambridge. [99] _Letters_, ii. 337. [100] See “A Poet’s Yorkshire Haunts,” in the _Atlantic Monthly_, August, 1895.