...e answer of the once noted New York author, Henry T. Tuckerman, when I asked him how it was that Lowell gained applause so easily, while so many had to wait for it. The explanation is very easy, said Tuckerman , Lowell had an admirer. This admirer was Briggs, whose preservation in the amber of the Fable for critics has not sufficed to keep his memory green, and who undoubtedly left no opportunity unused...