New England Men of LettersMacmillan, 1972 - 256 pages A Survey of the lives and works of ten 19th century American writers -- Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dana, Parkman, Prescott, Lowell, Longfellow, and Holmes. |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1 |
Richard Henry Dana Jr | 97 |
Francis Parkman | 141 |
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