[Gutenberg 22680] • The Biglow Papers

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: Author of the Biglow Papers

Judge Lowell's sou, Charles, was a Unitarian minister, learned, saintly, and discreet. He married Miss Harriet Traill Spence, of Portsmouth, a woman of superior mind, of great wit, vivacity, and an impetuosity that reached eccentric ity. She was of Keltic blood, of a family that came from the Orkneys, and claimed descent from the Sir Patrick Spens of the grand old ballad. Several of her family were connected with the American navy. Her father was Keith Spence, purser of the frigate Philadelphia, and a prisoner at Tripoli.

By ancestry on both sides, and by connections with the Russells and other distinguished families, Lowell was a. Good type of the New England gentleman.

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