Note 29 — Chapter III · FIRST VENTURES 1838-1844
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“I have enjoyed the society of my fair cousin Maria very much. She has shown me several of James’s letters, and I think I never saw such perfect specimens of love-letters,—those in any novel you ever read are perfectly indifferent compared to them. Without being silly in the least, they are full of all the fervor and extatification which you would expect from the most ardent lover.”—L. L. Thaxter to T. W. Higginson, 19 January, 1842.