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The complete writings of James Russell Lowell
The complete writings of James Russell Lowell Author:James Russell Lowell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IH 1850-1856 Domestic sorrow and joy. Visit to Europe. Death of his son at Rome. Decline of Mrs. Lowell's health. Return to America. Death of Mrs... more ». Lowell. Lectures on the English poets. Appointment to professorship in Harvard University. Second visit to Europe. Letters to C. F. Briggs, E. M. Davis, S. H. Gay, J. F. Heath, Francis G. Shaw, Mrs. F. G. Shaw, C. E. Norton, Miss Anna Loring, F. H. Underwood, Miss Jane Norton, E. A. Duyckinck, W. J. Stillman, James T. Fields, John Holmes, Dr. Estes Howe, W. W. Story, Mrs. Estes Howe, Mrs. W. W. Story. THE happiness of Lowell's domestic life was a second time rudely broken in upon by the death of his little daughter Rose, in the spring of 1850just three years after the death of her sister Blanche. These sorrows told heavily upon him, and still more upon his wife, whose health was always delicate and uncertain. They were made happy, at the end of the year, by the birth of a son, Walter, who became soon a child of uncommon loveliness and promise. Their circumstances werenow such that they resolved to go to Europe in the summer of 1851, not without hope that the voyage and travel would be of benefit to Mrs. Lowell. Except to his father, Lowell wrote few letters during their absence. Some record of their voyage and of their life in Italy is to be found in " Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere," ' but there is no reference in the published narrative to the calamity which befell them in Rome, in the spring of 1852, in the death of their little boy. It was a grievous blow, and one from which Mrs. Lowell never recovered. They remained abroad till the autumn. The next year was passed very quietly at home. Mrs. Lowell's health sank steadily, and on October 27, 1853, she died. To C. F. Briggs Elmwood, Ja...« less