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Among My Books, Second Series
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Title: Among My Books
Author: James Russell Lowell
Release Date: July, 2005 [EBook #8509] [This file was first posted on July 18, 2003]
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AMONG MY BOOKS
Second Series
by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
To R.W. EMERSON.
A love and honor which more than thirty years have deepened, though priceless to him they enrich, are of little import to one capable of inspiring them. Yet I cannot deny myself the pleasure of so far intruding on your reserve as at least to make public acknowledgment of t