without
their
recognition.
The Muses
have often
been
acknowledged
to be very
nice young
persons,but
in Boston
they were
really
ladies;in
Boston
literature
was of
good
family and
good
society in
a measure
it has
never been
elsewhere.
It might
be said
even that
reform was
of good
family in
Boston;and
literature
and reform
equally
shared the
regard of
Edmund
Quincy,whose
race was
one of the
most
aristocratic
in New
England.I
had known
him by his
novel of
'Wensley'(it
came so
