Dr. Holmes — whom you evidently did not fancy, though you
describe his talk so well — is really superior, at every point I can think of,
to Lowell, whom you liked so much; I should except personal appearances, for
Lowell's brow and eyes are Apollo-like, while all Holmes's face is small in
outline and expression, though mobile and vivacious. . . .
Maria Lowell was a living poem. She was his inspiration and
his moral tonic beside, and he has been living on her memory ever since, in
both respects. . . .
The chief editor [Lowell of the “Atlantic”] reads every
article without knowing the author's name, so as to be perfectly impartial.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 110-1
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