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G. P. Putnam and Co. Homes Of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotal, Personal And Descriptive Sketches, By Various Writers. [Decimalized .01- .02]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09690 Author/Creator: G. P. Putnam and Co. Place Written: New York, New York Type: Header Record Date: 1853 Pagination: 2 items. Order a Copy

One book published by G. P. Putnam and Co. dated 1853 and one letter from an envelope adhered to the inside of the book's back cover. Book contains illustrations of authors' residencies from original drawings. Envelope contains a letter from Henry Longfellow dated 1877 addressed to a Mr. W. H. Sutherland, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
Paulding, James K., 1778-1860
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Bacnroft, George, 1800-1891
Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882
Prescott, William H., 1796-1859
Sedgewick, Catherine Maria, 1789-1867
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Sutherland, W. H., fl. 1853

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