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I must tell you about a little dinner-party I gave about two weeks ago. It would be proper, perhaps, to state that the object, first, was to confer with my literary friends on a somewhat extensive literary project, the particulars of which I shall reserve till you come. But to the party: my invitations included only R. W. Emerson, H. W. Longfel low, J. R. Lowell, Mr. Motley (the Dutch Republic man), 0. W. Holmes, Mr. Cabot, and Mr. Underwood, our literary man. Imagine your uncle at the head of such a table, with such guests. The above-named were the only ones invited, and they were all present. We sat down at three p.m., and arose at eight. The time occupied was longer by about four hours and thirty minutes than I am in the habit of consuming in that kind of occupation, but it was the rich est time intellectually by all odds that I have ever had.

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Many of the following pages are derived freely from existing records of the Atlantic Monthly and the men who have made it. The files of the magazine itself have yielded much. Books of biography and reminiscence have also been drawn upon. For permission to do so acknowledgment is made to Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Co., by whom the following volumes have been published or acquired after publication: Edward Everett Hale's "James Russell Lowell and His Friends," Bliss Perry's "Park Street Papers," Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Cheerful Yesterdays," Francis H. Underwood's biographies of Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell; Horace E. Scudder's "James Russell Lowell," James T. Field's "Yesterdays with Authors," Ferris Greenslet's "Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich" and Merwin's "Life of Bret Harte," and to Messrs. Harper and Brothers, publishers of Charles Eliot Norton's "Letters of James Russell Lowell," and William Dean Howells's "Literary Friends and Acquaintance" and "My Mark Twain." Messrs. Harper and Brothers have also kindly permitted the reproduction of contemporaneous wood cuts from Harpers" Magazine.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.