p.

perfect stranger to me & my capacities for
judging. But I wish he would think of it himself.
He might read his review of the Life of [ ?]
in a christian Examiner of some years since
to see a little into his way of viewing subjects -
& Dr Walker of Cambridge - Dr Channing of
Boston & more especially Mr Hedge himself
who is here for a week or two as I understand &
would be good sources of information to apply
to. He gave a series of popular lectures on
literature at Bangor that winter which were
very successful - & he presented a lecture at

the opening of the Lyceum the year before which
was very superior. Indeed he is I think
& those who know him - (Dr Francis of Watertown
for instance thinks so ) a person of first rate mind
who is passing his life must live usefully for the work than he should - because he is not forth putting and
has not personal charms. He is not merely a person
of uncommon & rare attainments but a man of
genius - a poet - & a logician - [much more ?]
This last part of my letter dear Miss Lowell which
I intended to have very clear and good, has
been interrupted several times & I must hope

made myself intelligible. The word sermon
stands in our community as such a
bugbear - that it seems to me nothing
can be done for the people which would
relieve more suffering than to have the
literature analyzed.
Truly your friend,
Elizabeth
To Mrs R. A. Lowell
care of Mr John A. Lowell
Boston