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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 4: country life at Groton. (1833-1836.) (search)
ish it for my memoirs as such after I am dead. Ms. Mr. Bancroft's paper on Slavery in Rome appeared in the North American Review for October, 1834, XXXIX. 413. and contained a very low estimate of Brutus. For some reason, although this number of the review was then considered important enough to be elaborately criticised in several successive issues of the Advertiser, yet the indignation of Mr. Fuller and his daughter was not brought to bear until nearly two months had passed. On November 27, however,--Miss Fuller being then twenty-four,--there appeared in the leading Boston journal a communication in small print, signed J. and filling nearly a column. It handled Mr. Bancroft firmly though respectfully, but disputed his view in regard to Brutus, and showed a good deal of care in consulting original authorities. Plutarch was largely quoted, in an English version, and Velleius Paterculus in the original Latin,--one extract filling five lines. Upon these grounds the writer