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Homes of American authors : comprising anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches, by various writers ...

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-151031

Description

viii, 469 p. : ill., plates, ports., facsims. ; 22 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Authors, American Homes and haunts.
Literary landmarks

Contents

--John James Audubon.--James K. Paulding.--Washington Irving.--William Cullen Bryant.--George Bancroft.--Richard Henry Dana.--William H. Prescott.--Miss C. M. Sedgwick.--J. Fenimore Cooper.--Edward Everett.--Ralph Waldo Emerson.--William Gilmore Simms.--Henry W. Longfellow.--Nathaniel Hawthorne.--Daniel Webster.--John Pendleton Kennedy.--James Russell Lowell.

Publication

New-York : G. P. Putnam and co.

Description

viii, 469 p. : ill., plates, ports., facsims. ; 22 cm.

Notes

By G. W. Curtis, H. T. Tuckerman, G. W. Greene, C. F. Briggs, G. S. Hillard, W. C. Bryant, G. W. Peck, R. W. Griswold, P. Godwin, E. E. Hale, Mrs. C. M. Kirkland.
Added t.-p., engraved; part of the illustrations are colored.
Many of these papers were reprinted by G. P. Putnam's sons in 1896 under title "Little journeys to the homes of American authors.

Call Number

Stacks PS141.H6
Rare PS141.H6

Places

United States

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