Saturday, August 30, 2014

Charles Russell Lowell to John N. Dennison, October 25, 1860

Burlington, October 25, '60.

I know I may assume without vanity that you will be sorry to hear I have resigned my place on B. & M. — I know it because I am sorry myself to tell you so, though I am changing to a business which has always had the strongest attractions for me.

I have never got over the "iron-fever," and when a place was offered me at Mt. Savage, though the pecuniary prospect was no better than at Burlington, the chance to become an iron-master was too good to be refused.

SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 191

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