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sure that I can engage that you will both give and receive a 

 great deal of pleasure from the visit. 



Hoping for a favourable reply and the promise of a full 

 course, 



I am, yours faithfully, 



AUGUSTUS LOWELL. 



I very much regretted that I was unable to accept 

 this invitation. 



The meeting at Montreal, the first one held out of 

 the British Isles, was a conspicuous success. We were 

 received with open arms by our Canadian colleagues 

 and by our American friends, who attended in large 

 numbers, and hospitality of the most lavish kind was 

 showered upon us. 



On visiting the United States we were hospitably 

 entertained at Cambridge by my old friends Professors 

 Cooke and Loring Jackson, also visiting the one at 

 Newport where we met Wolcott Gibbs, and the other 

 at his country-house at Beverley Farm. At this 

 latter place I had also the great pleasure of calling on 

 the author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 

 Oliver Wendell Holmes. We were delighted with the 

 simplicity of his manner and the charming family life by 

 which he was surrounded. It reminded me much more 

 of the life of the German professors than that of our 

 English colleagues. It is remarkable that, in the press 

 and hurry for wealth and the position which wealth 

 brings, one should find among the really intellectual 

 circles of America a disregard of all that is usually 

 considered to be characteristic of American life, and to 

 see that the tlite of the people had the power of acting 

 up to an ideal of " plain living and high thinking," 



In June, 1884, I received the following letters from 

 Mr. Mundella and Mr. Gladstone : 



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