Robert Lowellto Julius Hammond Ward, 1864

Extent:
4 p.
Scope and content:

[Discusses The New Priest in Conception Bay, about which Rev. Ward has written in The Christian Examiner; says his brother, James Russell Lowell, did not help in the making of the character "Bangs," that he had no help from anyone, except for some deletions in the second edition which Caleb Sprague Henrysuggested; says that, although in poetry, he cannot make "fun," as his brother can, he needs no help with prose; disclaims familiarity with writings to which others have likened The New Priest; mentions the unsympathetic, slighting way of Charles Eliot Nortonand Robert Lowell's brother, James, both with the North American Review; expresses the hope of a visit to Duanesburgby Ward; discusses several characters in The New Priest; mentions Mr. Tucker, George Herbert, John Keble. ]

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