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Title: The White Mr. Longfellow From "Literary Friends And Acquaintances"
Author: William Dean Howells
Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3394]
Language: English
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LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES—The White Mr. Longfellow
by William Dean Howells
THE WHITE MR. LONGFELLOW
We had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in Old Cambridge. This was not so simple a matter
as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened its scholarly pace to the modern step. Indeed, in the spring
of 1866 the impulse of expansion was not yet visibly felt anywhere; the enormous material growth that followed the civil
war had not yet begun. In Cambridge the houses to be let were few, and such as there were fell either below our pride or
rose above our purse. I wish I might tell how at last we bought a house; we had no money, but we were rich in friends, who
are still alive to shrink from the story of their constant faith in a financial future which we sometimes doubted, and who
backed their credulity with their credit. It is sufficient for the present ...