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Cambridge Neighbors, Literary Friends and Acquaintance
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Literary Friends and Acquaintances—Cambridge Neighbors
by William Dean Howells
Being the wholly literary spirit I was when I went to make my home in Cambridge, I do not see how I could well have been more content if I had found myself in the Elysian Fields with an agreeable eternity before me. At twenty-nine, indeed, one is practically immortal, and at that age, time had for me the effect of an eternity in which I had nothing to do but to read books and dream of writing them, in the overflow of endless hours from my work with the manuscripts, critical notices, and proofs of the Atlantic Monthly. As for the social environment I should have been puzzled if given my choice among the elect of all the ages, to find poets and scholars more to my mind than those still in the flesh at Cambridge in the early afternoon of the nineteenth century. They are now nearly all dead, and I can speak of them in the freedom which is death’s doubtful favor to the survivor; but if they were still alive I could say little to their offence, unless their modesty was hurt with my praise.
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Chicago: William Dean Howells, "Literary Friends and Acquaintances— Cambridge Neighbors," Cambridge Neighbors, Literary Friends and Acquaintance, ed. Davis, Charles Belmont, 1866-1926 in Cambridge Neighbors, Literary Friends and Acquaintance (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909), Original Sources, accessed April 26, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LB1D3IKU2ASSVDR.
MLA: Howells, William Dean. "Literary Friends and Acquaintances— Cambridge Neighbors." Cambridge Neighbors, Literary Friends and Acquaintance, edited by Davis, Charles Belmont, 1866-1926, in Cambridge Neighbors, Literary Friends and Acquaintance, Vol. 22, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909, Original Sources. 26 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LB1D3IKU2ASSVDR.
Harvard: Howells, WD, 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances— Cambridge Neighbors' in Cambridge Neighbors, Literary Friends and Acquaintance, ed. . cited in 1909, Cambridge Neighbors, Literary Friends and Acquaintance, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 26 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LB1D3IKU2ASSVDR.
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