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...circulated, like a cultured bacillus, trying to infect the U. S. with some symptoms of a native civilization. He organized literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred???"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory began to fail, his raven hair fell out. A trip to Egypt brought him a new crop of snowy hair, but only a short span of life. At Longfellow's funeral he looked long...
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