Harvard College, Sept.
9, 1863.
My dear Hughes, — Will you do anything that lies in your way
for my young friend Mr. Lincoln, and very much oblige me thereby? He wishes
particularly to see you, and would like a few hints about employing his very
short time in London well. He has been one of our tutors here.
To almost any other Englishman I should think it needful to
explain that he is not President Lincoln, you are all so “shady” in our
matters. The Times, I see, has now sent over an “Italian” to report upon
us — a clever man, but a double foreigner, as an Italian with an English wash
over him. Pray, don't believe a word he says about our longing to go to war
with England. We are all as cross as terriers with your kind of neutrality, but
the last thing we want is another war. If the rebel iron-clads are allowed to
come out, there might be a change.
If you can give Mr. Lincoln any hints or helps for seeing Oxford
you would be doing him a great kindness, and adding another to the many you
have done me.
Cordially yours,
J. R. Lowell
SOURCE: Charles Eliot Norton, Editor, Letters of
James Russell Lowell, Volume 1, p. 372-3
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