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He edited the first American edition of Herodo- tus, and his editing showed both scholarship unusual for his age, and taste perhaps equally unusual. His soul was open to all the spiritual influences of the time, and he was one of Emerson's nearest friends 107 Digitized by Google 108 Genngaon* and followers. I suppose that he might have been classed among the Transcendentalists, but he had a saving grace of common-sense which protected him from some of the follies, which in that period of spirit...- ual ferment a good many of our best youth displayed/' He died in the June of 1843, before he was twenty- seven years old. In the fall of 1842 he wrote to Lowell from Heidelberg : " I must tell you that Tennyson has addressed me a very kind note since 1 took up my abode in Heidel- berg. 1 am going to copy out some paragraphs there- from, even at the risk of a vanity-tax. He says : ' 1 am very glad to hear that you are in the old world, and indeed half inclined to be envious of those sensa- tions which belong to you as an American first set- ting foot among the ruins of ancient empires.
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