Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
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Chapters (121)
- LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
- LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
- MY FIRST VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND
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- FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF LITERARY NEW YORK
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- ROUNDABOUT TO BOSTON
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- LITERARY BOSTON AS I KNEW IT
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- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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- THE WHITE MR. LONGFELLOW
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- STUDIES OF LOWELL
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- CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS
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- A BELATED GUEST
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- MY MARK TWAIN
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