Poet, essayist, and diplomat. AQS on a 4.75 x 2.75 lightly-lined sheet, signed “J.R. Lowell, Cambridge, 21st Oct 1859.” “O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory’s in believing.” Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Lowell. In fine condition, with a couple of faint creases, a bit of adhesive on the reverse from a previous mounting. R&R COA.
