Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857–1925

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notes Contributions to the Atlantic are noted by month and year (in parentheses) unless otherwise stated. Preface 1. Prospectus of the Atlantic Monthly, December 1860, back cover. 2. Edmund Kirke, “A Suppressed Chapter of History,” Atlantic Monthly 59 (April 1887): 447–448. 1. Beginnings 1. Mark A. De Wolfe Howe, The Atlantic Monthly and Its Makers (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), 14–15. 2. Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1741–1850 (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1930), 1:341. 3. John Winthrop, “A Model’l of Christian Charity,” Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd series (Boston, 1838), 7:47. 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Co., 1892), 2:217. 5. Quoted in Ferris Greenslet, James Russell Lowell, His Life and Work (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, Co., 1905), 150. 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Compensation,” The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Joseph Slater (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979), 2:64. 7. James R. Lowell to C. F. Briggs, December 1848, Works of James Russell Lowell (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), 14:201. 8. Atlantic Monthly 1 (November 1857), back cover. Also see Ellery Sedgwick, The Atlantic Monthly, 1857–1909, Yankee Humanism at High Tide and Ebb (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), 35. 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Concord Hymn,” in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Edward Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), 9:158–159. 10. See Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton , Mifflin and Co., 1884), 115. I am playing with Holmes’s description of Emerson’s Phi Beta Kappa Address (1853) as an “intellectual Declaration of Independence.” 11. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, ed. Ernest Samuels (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1973), 25. [ 280 ] Notes to Pages 7–10 12. Edgar Allan Poe, review of The Biglow Papers (First Series), Southern Messenger 15 (March 1859): 190. For the reception of this work, see The Biglow Papers, a Critical Edition, ed. Thomas Wortham (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1977), xxviii–xxxi. 2. Forging Traditions 1. Memories of a Hostess; A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships, Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields, ed. Mark De Wolfe Howe (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), 109. 2. William Dean Howells, “My First Trip to New England,” in Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship, ed. David F. Hiatt and Edwin H. Cady (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 26–27. 3. John Galsworthy’s tribute, Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of James Russell Lowell (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919), 11. 4. Robert Underwood Johnson, Remembered Yesterdays (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1923), 329. 5. Edward Wagenknecht, James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 49–50. James Russell Lowell, “The Darkened Mind,” in The Writings of James Russell Lowell (Boston: Houghton , Mifflin Co., 1895), 3:243. 6. See C. David Heyman, American Aristocracy, the Lives and Times of James Russell, Amy, and Robert Lowell (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1980), 68–69. Heyman notes that Lowell placed himself under the care of Dr. Samuel McKenzie (117). 7. Marian Hooper to R. W. Hooper, 26 January 1879, quoted in Ernest Samuels , Henry Adams (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), 200. 8. Edward Everett Hale, James Russell Lowell and His Friends (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), 104. 9. Ibid., 114–115. 10. See Wagenknecht, James Russell Lowell, 8–9. 11. James Russell Lowell, “The Dead House,” The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1896), 309–310. 12. Horace Elisha Scudder, James Russell Lowell, a Biography (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), 1:421. 13. James R. Lowell to C. E. Norton, 31 December 1857, Letters of James Russell Lowell, ed. Charles Eliot Norton (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1894), 1:281. 14. Scudder, James Russell Lowell, 1:421. 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 January 1862, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860–1866, ed. Linda Allardt et al. (Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982), 15:164. [ 281 ] Notes to Pages 11–15 16. Barrett Wendell, “Mr. Lowell as Teacher,” Scribner’s Magazine 10 (November 1891): 646, 645. 17. Review of Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot, Atlantic Monthly 1 (May 1858): 890–891. 18. Horace Scudder, introduction to The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, xv. 19. [R...