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Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 2, no. 17 (October 31, 1863)]

With caricature of Lincoln on the back page, as Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, seeing a Black man in ragged attire appear as the ghost of Caesar.

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Engraving of Henry Timrod.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. "Drawn from a painting by P.P. Carter." "Owned by the Hon. William A. Courtenay."

GLC02453.58

Engraving of Paul Hamilton Hayne.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to lower right. "Fords, Howard & Hulbert, N.Y." appears below the image.

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Engraving of Theodore O'Hara.

Engraving and typed bio note are both adhered to paper.

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Engraving of George William Curtis.

Adhered to paper with bio note. Both are adhered to scapbook mount.

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Engraving of Thomas Buchanan Read.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

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Engraving of George Ripley.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

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Engraving of Thurlow Weed.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

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Engraving of Joseph Hopkinson.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is typed biographical note. Based on the ca. 1810 portrait by Thomas Sully.

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Engraving of Thomas Dunn English.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Song lyrics printed in background, "Oh' don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt."

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Engraving of George William Curtis.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is a short biographical note.

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Engraving of Albert Pike.

"G. Com. Supreme Council of 33d Degree Southern Jurisdiction of U.S." Adhered to lower right is a a short biographical sketch of Pike.

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Bust portrait of Edward Payson Roe.

Photograph of engraving of Edward Payson Roe. Includes manuscript biographical note on the mount.

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Engraving of Edmund Clarence Stedman.

Adhered to scrapbook mount.

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Engraving of John Howard Payne.

Adhered to scrapbook mount.

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Engraving of Clement C. Moore.

Adhered to scapbook mount. Also adhered to mount is a clipping of the poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" as well as a short clipping of a Clarence Cook comment.

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Engraving of Fitz-Greene Halleck.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below the image is "From an Original Picture by Henry Inman." "Our Contributors No. VIII"

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Engraving of John Burroughs.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below the image reads, "Reproduced from an etching made at Slabsides, by M. Paul Roche."

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Engraving of John James Ingalls.

Adhered to scrapbook mount.

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Engraving of Eugene Field.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note also adhered to scrapbook mount.

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Engraving of Joseph Emerson Worcester.

Adhered to scapbook mount. Biographical note is adhered to right. Attached below engraving is a tab, "Worcester, J.E. Author of Dictionary."

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Engraving of John Lothrop Motley.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

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Engraving of Sidney Lanier.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

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Engraving of Charles Fenno Hoffman.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to bottom right. Engraved from a portrait by Henry Inman.

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Engraving of Josiah Gilbert Holland.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to bottom right.

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Engraving of Benson John Lossing.

Adhered to scrapbook mount with biographical sketch adhered to lower right. From Lossing's book, History of New York City. "Drawn by J.L. Giles, N.Y."

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Engraving of John Lothrop Motley.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below image reads, "On steel by John Sartain Phila. after Photograph from life"

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Engraving of James Parton.

Adhered to upper left is a biographical note. Inscribed in pencil lower left is, "c:" and lower right is, "my scarce print."

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Engraving of Richard Henry Stoddard.

Printed by J. Kelly. Adhered to torn out scrapbook page. Biographical note is adhered to lower left.

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[Cabinet photograph of Joshua Abraham Norton]

Signed "Emperor Norton." Three-quarter profile photograph of a seated Norton. He is wearing an officer's uniform.

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to Colonel (Fellows)

He gave the Colonel's regards to Major. Boynton and relayed the message that he would like to see his book.

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Advertisement for Major Boynton's book

Guide to West Point and the US Military Academy

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Advertisement for Major Boynton's book

Includes full description and a list of maps and illustrations. Press notices in the back.

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to James Dundas

Mentions the marriage of D. Erskine and the parliamentary elections. Describes his first visit to the opera, which he detested. Compares listening to songs in foreign languages (he does not understand) to "those poor bigots who say their prayers in...

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to James Dundas

Discusses sending his ill wife away to convalesce, referencing an essay by Montaigne in which he mentions being fonder of his wife after they have been apart. She will be "Sea Bathing, which I believe to be the most powerful restorative we have."...

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to James Dundas [fragment]

Discusses his wife Isabella's bathing in the sea for health reasons, describing the Russian practice. Notes that James became corpulent and compares him to "Sir. J: Falstaff." Gives news of various old friends, including one currently in India....

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to Guy Fenton

Written on mourning paper. He mentions a painting at the Louvre that shows the drowning of Marshal Poniatowski. He was moved when he saw Fenton's name on the cover of Country Life. He enjoys Victorian authors like Dickens.

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to Mrs. M B Dawes

He ordered 5 copies of his book for his mother.

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to my dear mother

The publishers sent him the first copy of his book. He is very pleased with it and will send her one as well.

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to my dear mother

He encloses a letter from General MacArthur which he says is not encouraging. He got hold of a copy of a letter by William Dawes Jr. in 1774. He read an account of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her involuntary drunk.

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to my dear mother

Written while waiting on a friend to go to the Opera. He has decided to publish is notes on the war. He will include some of the letters he wrote her.

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to General Dawes

He thanks him for a book that represents the work that they accomplished (the French and the Americans).

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The Improvement of the Age

Appears to be an essays about how people are becoming more enlightened and prejudices and ignorance are fading away. Much of it is unclear, however.

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Charles Blanchard Obituary

He liked his home town. He was genial and humorous. He loved reading Dickens.

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to Ethan A. Jenks

Hopkins, who previously served in the Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, transmits blank paper and stamps to Jenks, requesting Jenks to record the details of his service during the Civil War. Based upon his research, Hopkins wrote The...

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Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States : delivered before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, May 3, 1865 by Elias Nason

Published by William V. Spencer. Inscribed " Conn. Historical Society Hartford Conn." Discusses Lincoln's life and accomplishments.
Includes a poem on page 27 entitled "The Burial of Lincoln."

GLC02913.04

to Roscoe G. Greene re: Grey's Elegy, the Constitution

Adams comments at length upon punctuation in Grey's "Elegy in a Churchyard" (and the powers of Congress as limited or expanded by a semi-colon in the Constitution. He also writes that "No land of slavery could ever have produced Grey's Elegy."

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to Thomas Paine

President Washington thanks "Thos Paine - of Boston" (not the famous author of "Common Sense," who was in Paris until 1802) for a poem inscribed to him.

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Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica

Also authored by Lou Henry Hoover. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 and published by the Mining Magazine, Salisbury House, London, England. Inscribed by Hoover to Edwin A. Elsbach. De Re Metallica or "On the Nature of Metals" was...

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to Reverend Colman

Adams in retirement to Colman (also called Coleman by Abigail Adams in GLC 2515), a minister in a neighboring Massachusetts town. References various works of literature and says Spencer's Fairy Queen is a work of genius. Jokingly says his life has...

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