William Dean Howells recalls his first pilgrimage to New England as a young Ohio poet and the quarter-century he spent among its literary lions as editor of the Atlantic. He sets down Longfellow returning his own proofs to the printer, Lowell and Holmes in conversation, and Emerson and Hawthorne as he met them, alongside the literary life of Cambridge and Boston.
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