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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
stand, only wishing that there were more of them : December 28, 1888. Lowell looked far better and younger than last winter, and seemed bright, alert, cleareyed and strong, though he complained of gout. He talked most agreeably about his life abroad — said that his life in England was much easier than in Spain, where the consuls were incompetent and referred all to him, so that he wrote three quarto volumes of correspondence, all unnecessary. Also his secretary knew neither Spanish nor French. He said the Spaniards were easy to get on with after they found he would not take money and was to be regarded as a gentleman. They suspected-- of this and so did he. He thought Phelps could have settled the fishery question and the Sackville questionin the latter he thought Cleveland acted hastily. In England they could not understand his action, because it was not considered that disrespect to a President meant the same as to a Queen-which he (L.) had urged upon them. Thought Ph