tude to Mr. John Bigelow for the letters of Benjamin and Deborah Franklin; to Dr. Charles S. Minot for the letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick; to Mr. W. de Loss Love for the letters of David Fowler from the "Life of Samson Occam"; to Mr. Frank Sanborn for the letter of Henry James, Sr., from "A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy"; and to the Princeton Historical Association and Princeton University Library for the letters of Philip Fithian.

The letters of President Lincoln are reprinted by permission from the "Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln," edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published by The Century Co. of New York. Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. of New York have allowed the use of letters from "The Life of Bret Harte" by T. Edgar Pemberton. To The Funk & Wagnalls Co. of New York, I am indebted for the letters of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine from the "Biography of James G. Blaine" by Gail Hamilton.

Permission was granted by the publishers to use letters of General Lee from "Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee," published and copyrighted by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York in 1904; and by the courtesy of the same firm and of Miss Keller, the letter of Phillips Brooks is reprinted from Helen Keller's "The Story of my Life," published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. and copyrighted by Miss Keller in 1902.

The Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co. of Boston have kindly accorded the use of letters from Abram English Brown's "John Hancock, His Book" and from Catherine H. Birney's "The Grimké Sisters."

The letters of Sallie Holley are reprinted, by permission of the editor and publishers, from "A Life for Liberty by John White Chadwick, published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York and London; and to the

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same publishers I owe the letters of Mrs. Gibbons from the "Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons" by Sarah Hopper Emerson, and those of William Hamilton Gibson from John Coleman Andrews' "William Hamilton Gibson."

To Mr. Hamlin Garland and The McClure Co. of New York, I am indebted for a letter of Ulysses Grant from "The Life of Ulysses S. Grant," copyright, 1898, by Hamlin Garland, published by The McClure Co. To the same publishers and to the editor I owe the letters of Daniel and Edward Webster from "The Letters of Daniel Webster," edited by C. H. van Tyne, copyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillips & Co. Mrs. Annie Fields kindly joined with The McClure Co. in allowing me to take some of Mr. Warner's letters from her volume entitled "Charles Dudley Warner," copyright, 1904, by McClure, Phillips & Co.

Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. of Boston have granted the use of material from "Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals,” edited by Ednah D. Cheney; from the "Life and Letters of John Winthrop" by Robert C. Winthrop; from the "Memoir of Charles Sumner" by Edward L. Peirce; also the letter of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe from "Laura Bridgman" by Maud Howe and Florence Howe Hall; and the letter on page 94 from Charles Haight Farnham's "A Life of Francis Parkman.”

The letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin and the letters of James Russell Lowell on pages 79, 127, 155 are reprinted, by permission of the editor and publishers, from the “Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin," edited by Rollo Ogden and published by The Macmillan Co. of New York. The same publishers and Mrs. Pryor have granted the use of two letters signed “Agnes" from Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's "Reminiscences of Peace and War." The letter of Thomas Bailey Aldrich on page 346 is taken, by per

mission, from the "Life and Art of Edwin Booth" William Winter, published by The Macmillan Co.

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To Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons of New York I am under, great obligation for the use of material from the following publications of which they hold the copyright: "Eliza [Lucas] Pinckney" (copyright, 1896); "The Life and Letters of George Bancroft" (copyright, 1908); "The Life of Charles Loring Brace" (copyright, 1897); "The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris" (copyright, 1888); the letters of Eliza Southgate are from “A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago" (copyright, 1887); those of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith are from "The First Forty Years of Washington Society" (copyright, 1906); those of James and Mercy Warren are from "Mercy Warren" (copyright, 1896). The letters of Sidney Lanier are from "The Letters of Sidney Lanier" (published by Charles Scribner's Sons; copyright, 1899, by Mary Day Lanier).

The extracts from Laura Bridgman, Caroline C. Briggs, Lydia Maria Child, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mrs. Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lucy Larcom, Charles Godfrey Leland, Henry W. Longfellow and Mrs. Longfellow, Dolly Madison, Bayard Taylor, Celia Thaxter, George Ticknor, Henry D. Thoreau, William Wetmore Story, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich (except the letter on page 346) are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Co., the authorized publishers of their works.

The letters of Stephen Longfellow, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Jared Sparks, and that of Thomas Gold Appleton on page 170 are from the "Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," by Samuel Longfellow; the letters of James Russell Lowell on pages 30, 124, 149 are from "William Wetmore Story and his Friends" by Henry James; the

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letters of Margaret Fuller on pages 194, 196 are from Frank Sanborn's "Henry D. Thoreau"; the one on page 67 is from Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Margaret Fuller Ossoli"; the letter of Francis Parkman on page 226 is from Henry Dwight Sedgwick's "Francis Parkman"; that of George William Curtis on page 300 is from Edward Cary's "George William Curtis"; and all these letters are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Co., the authorized publishers of these works. In addition to this acknowledgment to the publishers, I wish to add my especial thanks to Colonel T. W. Higginson, to Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, to Mr. Ferris Greenslet, and to the members of the Emerson family for the courtesy with which they have met my requests for material.