[Boston—Monday, 21 April 1873]
Monday 22 [sic]. to the dentist—a job no one likes, but when I remember how I suffered at 17 and how fine my teeth are now and how seldom I am obliged to go, I am filled with gratitude.
Mr. Longfellow & Prof. Greene called. Mr. Greene is bent and very feeble, his eyes too have given way. Longfellow takes the tenderest care of him; he is too feeble now for any exertion. Longfellow was very lonely, he asked to borrow our C. Auchester and said he frequently read it with tears in his eyes. As they were going poor Greene said, “Longfellow will you please turn down my coat collar for me!”
Jamie was at home; he is writing away upon his Charles Lamb lecture with a kind of fury. He is happy as possible. He writes only too steadily I think, and I shall be obliged to devise means to keep him out enough, I fear.
