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The Wichita Daily Eagle
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas
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Biographical sketch of Mary Traill Spence Lowell, sister of poet James Russell Lowell, detailing her birth in 1810, marriage to Samuel R. Putnam in 1832, residence in Boston, linguistic expertise, publications on Polish and Hungarian literature including 'Records of an Obscure Man' (1861) and a dramatic poem, and a memorial for her father Rev. Dr. Charles Lowell.
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It is not generally known that James Russell Lowell has a sister who has gained some literary fame, and whose scholarship and gifts entitle her to wide recognition. Mary Traill Spence Lowell was born in 1810, and is nine years the senior of her distinguished brother. In 1832 she married Mr. Samuel R. Putnam, and since that time her home has been in Boston, where she still lives in her house on Beacon street. Mrs. Putnam is noted as a linguist, and has written some very able papers on Polish and Hungarian literature, and in 1861 she published a book called "Records of an Obscure Man." Soon after she published a dramatic poem called "The Tragedy of Errors and Tragedy of Success," and on the death of her father, the Rev. Dr. Charles Lowell, Mrs. Putnam wrote the memorial of his life. - New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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Boston, Beacon Street
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Born 1810, Married 1832, Published 1861
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Mary Traill Spence Lowell, born in 1810 and nine years older than her brother James Russell Lowell, married Samuel R. Putnam in 1832 and resides in Boston. Noted linguist who wrote on Polish and Hungarian literature, published 'Records of an Obscure Man' in 1861, a dramatic poem 'The Tragedy of Errors and Tragedy of Success,' and a memorial for her father Rev. Dr. Charles Lowell.