Note 33 — I YEARS OF DISCIPLINE (continued 2)
Reading edition
The allusion here is to Ellery Channing's "Youth of the Poet and Painter," in the Dial,—an unfinished autobiography. The Present of W. H. Channing, his cousin, named above, was a short-lived periodical, begun September 15, 1843, and ended in April, 1844. "McKean" was Henry Swasey McKean, who was a classmate of Charles Emerson at Harvard in 1828, a tutor there in 1830-35, and who died in 1857.