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The Disciple Proves Independent: Howells and Lowell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Howard M. Munford*
Affiliation:
Middlebury College

Abstract

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Type
Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1959

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References

1 Letter to C. E. Norton, 26 April 1903, Life in Letters of William Dean Howells, ed. Mildred Howells (New York, 1928), ii, 172.

2 See Literary Friends and Acquaintance (New York and London, 1900), passim.

3 Letter to Norton, above.

4 Howells, Letters, I, 270.

5 “Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship,” Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1907), c, 600.

6 James Russell Lowell, Letters, ed. Charles E. Norton (New York, 1894), i, 350-351.

7 MS letter, 6 Nov. 1865, Houghton Lib., Harvard.

8 MS letter, 25 May 1879, Houghton Lib. This letter is included in the Norton edition of Lowell's Letters, but the quoted sentence is unaccountably deleted.

9 22 June 1879, Howells, Letters, i, 272.

10 MS letter, 17 Dec. 1875, Houghton Lib.

11 MS letter, 19 Dec. 1875, Houghton Lib.

12 MS letter, 21 Dec. 1875, Houghton Lib.

13 21 July 1895, Howells, Letters, ii, 62.

14 “Editor's Study,” Harper's Monthly (June 1888), lxxvii, 151.

15 Lowell, Letters, ii, 394-395.

16 Letter to Thomas Hughes, 20 April 1890, ibid., ii, 399.