ABSTRACT
HOWARD CHOOSES FOR THE TITLE PAGE OF TO-MORROW A QUOTATION from ‘The Present Crisis’ by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) published in his Poems in 1844. Lowell was an ardent abolitionist, which would have appealed to Howard’s ideas on temperance. In 1855 he succeeded Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as professor of modern languages at Harvard, was the first editor of Atlantic Monthly (1857-61), and went on to edit the North American Review (1864-72). But the latter part of his life was spent as a representative of his country abroad-as US minister to Spanish court (1877-80) and then in London at the Court of St James where he served until 1885. Much of the rest of his life was spent in London or Whitby in Yorkshire. Whether Howard actually met him is unknown.
