Shady Hill, 1 February, 1863.
Here is our prospectus. If at any time you want to secure a
still wider circulation for any one of your articles than their appearance in "Harper"
affords, please send me from one hundred to five hundred slips, which can be
cheaply enough struck off if done before the form for the paper is broken up.
McClellan is still here, and has been causing people to
break the Sabbath to-day. Agassiz is a devoted admirer of his, and said
yesterday that “he was a great but not a towering man.” Dr. Holmes studying him
physiologically talks of “broad base of brain,” “threshing floor of ideas,” no
invention or original force of intellect, but compact, strong, executive
nature, “with a neck such as not one man in ten thousand possesses,” “muscular
as a prize-fighter,” etc., etc....
SOURCE: Sara Norton and M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Letters
of Charles Eliot Norton, Volume 1, p. 260
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