Note 78 — Chapter V · A FABLE FOR CRITICS, THE BIGLOW PAPERS, AND THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL 1847-1848

Writing forty years later in excuse of a petty solecism, he said: “I think it must have been written when I was fresh from the last Biglow Papers. When my soul enters Mr. Biglow’s person, she divests herself for the time of all conventional speech, and for some time after she leaves it is apt to forget herself.”