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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
the constancy of Garrison and the eloquence of Phillips had failed to bring about in thirty years. Such words were half battles, at that day. The biographers of Lowell all agree that he was a good editor. This is of course true as to taste, judgment, and a steadily widening sympathy. On the business side of editorship, however, it was a great relief when Fields took the helm; and the following two letters will indicate the point where Lowell was deficient. Theodore Parker had died on May Io, 1860, and I had taken pains to write promptly a sketch of him, based on intimate knowledge, for early publication in the Atlantic. Then followed a delay which I could not understand, but which the second letter explains. Cambridge, June 28, 1860. My dear Higginson, I supposed you would understand as going without saying that I am always glad of an article from you. I can't use it however before September. I have to make it a rule not to acknowledge articles sent to me — or I should hav