Shady Hill, 16 October, 1863.
I heartily and with all my heart rejoice with you in the
result of Tuesday's elections. All our confidence in the intelligence and
patriotism of our people is justified. The victory is the moral Waterloo of the
rebellion. The end is in view, — with Union and freedom and peace. . . .
I have just undertaken, in company with Lowell, the
editorship of the “North American Review.” The arrangement with the publishers
is a tolerably liberal one, and I think we can put some life into the old dry
bones of the Quarterly. Will you sometimes write an article? Will you in the
course of the next six weeks write one, — on any national question you choose,
or on any other subject if you are tired of politics, — letting us have it for
the January number? Do if you can do it. We can pay you two dollars and fifty
cents a page. . . .
SOURCE: Sara Norton and M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Letters
of Charles Eliot Norton, Volume 1, p. 265-6
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