' 



TO 



PROFESSOR F. J. CHILD. 



MY DEAR CHILD, 



You were good enough to like my Essay on Chaucer 

 (about whom you know so much more than I ), and I shall 

 accordingly so far presume upon our long friendship as to 

 inscribe the volume containing it with your name. 

 Always heartily yours, 



J. R. LOWELL. 

 CAMBRIDGE, Christmas, 1870. 



