Studies of Lowell

By Howells, William Dean, Editor

Book Id: WPLBN0000616378
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.5 MB
Reproduction Date:

Title:	Studies of Lowell
Author:	Howells, William Dean, Editor
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
Collections:	Project Gutenberg Consortia Center
Historic Publication Date:
Publisher:	Project Gutenberg Consortia Center


Citation APA MLA Chicago Howells, W. D. (n.d.). Studies of Lowell. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
I. It was in the summer of 1865 that I came home from my consular post at Venice; and two weeks after I landed in Boston, I went out to see Lowell at Elmwood, and give him an inkstand that I had brought him from Italy. The bronze lobster whose back opened and disclosed an inkpot and a sandbox was quite ugly; but I thought it beautiful then, and if Lowell thought otherwise he never did anything to let me know it. He put the thing in the middle of his writing-table (he nearly always wrote on a pasteboard pad resting upon his knees), and there it remained as long as I knew the place?a matter of twenty-five years; but in all that time I suppose the inkpot continued as dry as the sand-box.