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Poems on Slavery, which in tract form, he said,
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Whittier had also asked whether Longfellow would accept a nomination to Congress from the Liberty Party, and had added,
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Our friends think they could throw for thee one thousand more votes than for any other man.
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A Year's Life, to write for an annual which was to appear in Boston and to be edited, in Lowell's own phrase,
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{66} Lowell subsequently wrote in the
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Pioneer kindly notices of Longfellow's
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Poems on Slavery, but there is no immediate evidence of any personal relations between them at that time. In a letter to Poe, dated at Elmwood June 27, 1844, Lowell says of a recent article in the
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Foreign Quarterly Review attributed to John Forster,
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Forster is a friend of some of the Longfellow clique here, which perhaps accounts for his putting L. at the top of our Parnassus. These kinds of arrangements do very well, however, for the present. {67}... It will be noticed that what Lowell had originally called a
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has now become a
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It is also evident that lie did not regard Longfellow as the assured head of the American Parnassus, and at any rate he suggests some possible rearrangement for the future. Their real friendship seems to have begun with a visit by Longfellow to Lowell's study on October 29, 1846, when the conversation turned chiefly on the slavery question. Longfellow called to see him again on the publication of his second volume of poems, at the end of the following year, and Lowell spent an evening with Longfellow during March, 1848, while engaged on
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The Fable for Critics,