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Excerpt from The Boyhood of Famous Authors
The sketches in this little volume have been prepared with the consent, and in most instances with the assistance, of the authors represented; to whom, together with Dr. J. R. Nichols and the Hon. G. B. Loring, the writer offers his thanks. Mr. Loring, who was the classmate of Lowell, has communicated some recol lections of that poet's youth, while Dr. Nichols has done a similar service in the case of Whittier. Thanks are also due to Messrs. Houghton, Mif?in, Co., for.
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