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Title: The Biglow Papers

Author: James Russell Lowell

Editor: Thomas Hughes

Release Date: September 20, 2007 [EBook #22680]

Language: English

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THE

BIGLOW PAPERS.

BY
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

NEWLY EDITED,
WITH A PREFACE
BY THE
AUTHOR OF "_TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL-DAYS_."

THIRD ENGLISH EDITION.

Reprinted, with the Author's Sanction, from the
Last American Edition.

LONDON:
TRUeBNER & CO. 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1861.

Transcriber's Note

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect
spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained.

Greek words have been transliterated and are shown between {braces}.

The carat symbol [^] has been used to note 'superscript', and three
asterisks [***] represent an inverted asterism. The following less
common characters have been transcribed as follows:

[)a] a with breve
[=a] a with macron
[oe] oe ligature

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

In order to avoid any misconception, the Publishers think it advisable
to announce that the present Edition of the "Biglow Papers" is issued
with the express sanction of the Author, granted by letter, from which
the following is an extract:--

"CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,
_14th September, 1859_.

"I think it would be well for you to announce that you are to
publish an Authorized Edition of the 'BIGLOW PAPERS;' for I have
just received a letter from Mr. ----, who tells me that a Mr. ----
was thinking of an edition, and wished him to edit it. Any such
undertaking will be entirely against my will, and I take it for