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Excerpt from A Little Book of Friends
Returning to Boston, her beautiful home on Charles Street, with its garden running down to the river, with its wide view over miles of water to the distant hills, with its vast and lovely library, lined with books and pictures and busts Of unique attraction, became the haunt Of our chief poets, wits, and writers, players and workers, Lowell and Long fellow and Holmes and Emerson and Agassiz and Felton and Whipple, to number no more, being its familiars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
