Excerpt from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Biographical Sketch
It should be added, that I resided in Cam bridge from 1854 to 1859, and enjoyed the friendship and often the invaluable converse of Longfellow and Lowell and, as I was the projector of the Atlantic Monthly, and had been the means of gathering the eminent literary men who made it renowned, I was for the first two years a constant attendant at the monthly dinners hereinafter men tioned, and so came to have a personal knowl edge of the great writers of our State and time. And I have felt that it was something very like a duty for me to put on paper, be fore age should overtake me, my early im pressions of that remarkable group of men, now sadly broken.
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