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Underwood, Francis Henry

diplomat, author, was born Jan. 12, 1825, in Enfield, Mass. He was a Boston writer; and the organizer of the Atlantic Monthly.

He was American consul at Glasgow in 1885-89, and subsequently at Leith, where he died. He was the author of Handbooks of English Literature: British Authors, and American Authors: Builders of American Literature; biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier; The Poet and the Man, Recollections of James Russell Lowell; Cloud Pictures; and the novels, Lord of Himself; Man Proposes; Dr. Gray's Quest; and Quabbin. He died in 1894.