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Bradley, Joseph P., 1813-1892. Papers, 1836-1937.

Title: Papers, 1836-1937.

Correspondence, diaries (1843-1891), speeches, journal of law cases (1842-1869), legal papers, genealogical material, and other papers. Other correspondents include Melville W. Fuller, Archer Gifford, Horace Grey, John Marshall Harlan, Benjamin Harrison, Joseph Henry, George F. Hoar, Joseph C. Hornblower, William Hornblower, John P. Jackson, James G. King, Thomas T. Kinney, L.Q.C. Lamar, Martha J. Lamb, S.P. Langley, Robert Todd Lincoln, Arthur MacArthur, A.W. Markley, Weir Mitchell, Lot M. Morrill, Franklin Murphy, William Nelson, Cortlandt Parker, William Pennington, Benjamin Perley Poore, Rodman M. Price, Theodore F. Randolph, Charles H. Reed, George M. Robeson, Elihu Root, Martin Ryerson, Carl Schurz, Thomas Scott, John Sherman, Benjamin Silliman, Jr., Ellen L. Stanton, R.H. Stevens, John P. Stockton, Robert Field Stockton, William Howard Taft, Peter D. Vroom, Morrison Remick Waite, John Wanamaker, Marcus L. Ward, Stephen Wickes, Joseph G. Wilson, and Beatrice Winser. Correspondence is indexed in the manuscripts catalog.

ArchivalResource: 15 ft.

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Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882. Henry W. Bellows papers, 1783-1907.

Title: Henry W. Bellows papers, 1783-1907.

Unitarian clergyman, of New York City. Correspondence, diary, addresses, sermons, reports, dissertations, legal documents, and schedule of properties. Correspondence (1831-82) relates to Bellows' religious work, his interest in Antioch College (1859-72), his work in the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and editorship of the Christian Examiner. Chief correspondents include Bellows' parents, his brothers Edward and John, Cyrus A. Bartol, James F. Clarke, and Edward Everett Hale. Other correspondents include George T. Curtis, Theodore Dorr, O.C. Everett, H.W. Foote, Amos Adams Lawrence, Charles Mason, and William Silsbee.

ArchivalResource: 103 boxes and 1 v.

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Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. George Ticknor Curtis correspondence, 1840-1856.

Title: George Ticknor Curtis correspondence, 1840-1856.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

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Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. Papers of George Ticknor Curtis [manuscript], 1863-1892.

Title: Papers of George Ticknor Curtis [manuscript], 1863-1892.

In correspondence Curtis discusses the constitutionality of the conscription law of 1863 which Gov. Seymour asked him to analyze; declines to attend a banquent honoring Lord Byron, mentioning the controversy over Harriet Beecher Stowe's accusations; discusses his research for "The Life of James Buchanan"; comments on "ignorance among nine-tenths of all the educated men in New England of the age of forty and under,"and mentions the publication of articles on Judge Church, and the Homestead Strike, and one by Archibald Forbes on General George B. McClellan.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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Copeland, Benjamin Franklin, 1798-1863. Benjamin Franklin Copeland papers, 1835, 1851-1853.

Title: Benjamin Franklin Copeland papers, 1835, 1851-1853.

Bulk of this collection consists of materials received by Benjamin Franklin Copeland (1798-1863), a Boston merchant and Justice of the Peace for Roxbury, Mass., as Chairman of a Massachusetts political committee promoting the nomination of Daniel Webster for President of the United States in 1851-1852. The most significant items among the papers are letters written by prominent state congressmen, lawyers, and merchants discussing campaign tactics, the growth of the Free Soil Party in Massachusetts, and other political matters. Correspondents include George Ashmun, Alexander Hamilton Bullock, George Ticknor Curtis, Edward Dickinson, Levi Lincoln, and Tappen Wentworth. Also includes petitions gathered from various Mass. towns listing the names of local supporters; lists of delegates selected by the towns to attend a "Webster Convention" held at Boston on November 25, 1851; and notes, memoranda, and receipts.

ArchivalResource: 127 items.

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Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. Letters : New York, to Philip R. Fendall, Washington, D.C., 1841 June 10, 18 July 10.

Title: Letters : New York, to Philip R. Fendall, Washington, D.C., 1841 June 10, 18 July 10.

Writes of legal matters pertaining to mortgages and notes.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 p. in folder) ; 25 x 30 cm.

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Campbell Family Papers, 1781-1938

Title: Campbell Family Papers, 1781-1938

John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889) was associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and assistant secretary of the Confederate War Department and related to the Campbell, Colston, Groner, and other families represented in this collection. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal items, military papers, writings, photographs, and other items relating to the family of John Archibald Campbell. Materials relate to the Civil War career of several family members, including John A. Campbell, Duncan G. Campbell, and Frederick M. Colston; the imprisonment of John A. Campbell at Fort Pulaski, Ga.; family life; the postwar activity of Confederate officers, particularly Frederick M. Colston and Edward Porter Alexander; veterans' affairs; and the Maryland contribution to the Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition in 1907. Included are photographs of Confederate Army officers and the battlefields at Antietam, Md., and Winchester, Va.

ArchivalResource: 800; 1.5

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Richards, Franklin Snyder, 1849-1934. Letterbook, 1886-1890.

Title: Letterbook, 1886-1890.

Letterpress copies of correspondence to LDS officials and others relating to the defense of Mormons under federal charges of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation. Also addresses lobbying efforts in Congress for Utah's statehood.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel (64 letters) : manuscript and typwritten ; 35mm, pos.

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Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. George Ticknor Curtis letter to My dear Colonel, 1884 May 3.

Title: George Ticknor Curtis letter to My dear Colonel, 1884 May 3.

Curtis writes to My dear Colonel, 3 May 1884, concerning his repayment of a two-hundred and fifty dollar loan, with some details of his financial situation.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

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Curtis, Charles P. Letter, 1851 February 17, [Boston?], to Daniel Webster [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1851 February 17, [Boston?], to Daniel Webster [n.p.].

Concerns the rescue of a fugitive slave. Mr. Tukey does not want the office of Marshal. Recommends G.T. Curtis to investigate the matter. Mentions Mr. Riley, and the Navy Yard.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 26 cm.

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Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. Letter : Richfield Springs, [N.Y.], to J.S. Black, n.p., 1881 Aug. 26.

Title: Letter : Richfield Springs, [N.Y.], to J.S. Black, n.p., 1881 Aug. 26.

Autograph letter signed. Refers to Nahum Capen.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

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Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. Letter regarding Dred Scott case, 19 December 1856.

Title: Letter regarding Dred Scott case, 19 December 1856.

Photocopy of a letter by Curtis to an unnamed correspondent touching on the constitutional question in the case of Dred Scott, whom Curtis was defending.

ArchivalResource: 2 sheets (4 p.) ; 21 x 28 cm.

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Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

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Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. Autograph letters signed (17) : Philadelphia, Boston, etc., to Harper & Brothers, 1854 Dec. 3-1892 Oct. 31.

Title: Autograph letters signed (17) : Philadelphia, Boston, etc., to Harper & Brothers, 1854 Dec. 3-1892 Oct. 31.

Concerning the publication of his works.

ArchivalResource: 17 items (37 p.) ; (12mo and 8vo)

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Prescott, William, 1762-1844. Letters, 1839 March 9 and [n.d.], Boston, to George Ticknor, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1839 March 9 and [n.d.], Boston, to George Ticknor, Boston.

Returns Clarkson's book; mentions the Wilberforces. Thanks him for Curtis's pamphlet mentioning the Latimer case.

ArchivalResource: 2 items. 21-26 cm.

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Greenough, William W. (William Whitwell), d. 1899. Papers of William W. Greenough, 1823-1890.

Title: Papers of William W. Greenough, 1823-1890.

Family and general correspondence, financial and legal papers, educational records, certificates, photographs, and printed matter. Family papers include correspondence with Greenough's father, William Greenough, and his future wife, Catherine Scollay Curtis, including letters (1840-1841) while he was traveling in Europe. Also includes letters from Harvard classmate, Horatio Hale (1817-1896), while with the U.S. Exploring Expedition and a large group of letters from William Maxwell Evarts. Much of the remaining correspondence relates to Greenough's position as trustee of the Boston Public Library. Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Samuel Bowles, George Ticknor Curtis, Samuel Eliot, Samuel Atkins Eliot, Edward Everett, George S. Hillard, John MacGregor ("Rob Roy"), Josiah Quincy, John Rose, and Justin Winsor.

ArchivalResource: 400 items. 2 containers.

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Langdon, William Chauncy, 1831-1895. William Chauncy Langdon papers, 1600-1903 (bulk 1846-1863).

Title: William Chauncy Langdon papers, 1600-1903 (bulk 1846-1863).

Correspondence, diary (1865), journals (1850-1856), subject files, printed material, Langdon (Langston) family genealogical records, and other papers concerning Langdon's invention of card games (1846-1847), his work as professor of astronomy at Shelby College, Ky., and in the U.S. Patent Office (1851-1856), his long career as an Episcopal clergyman, his role in the founding of the Y.M.C.A. movement, especially in Washington, D.C., travels in Europe, Civil War, Clay-Webster debates, and the administrations of Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce. Correspondents include Langdon family members, A. D. Bache, Thomas Hart Benton, John C. Breckinridge, Phillips Brooks, Benjamin R. Curtis, George T. Curtis, George M. Dallas, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Joseph Henry, Caroline Lee Hentz, Reverdy Johnson, Amos Kendall, Matthew F. Maury, Thaddeus Stevens, and George Ticknor.

ArchivalResource: 800 items.3 containers.

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Stark, John, 1811-1849. Notebook of Samuel Henry Newell, 1830-1833.

Title: Notebook of Samuel Henry Newell, 1830-1833.

Notebook contains 69 themes, examination themes, and forensics by Newell, spanning most of his undergraduate career. On the inside front cover appear the name Samuel Henry Newell and the date 1832. The notebook also contains themes by other members of the Harvard College Class of 1832, including William Channing Appleton, Joseph Bennett, Charles Timothy Brooks, George Ticknor Curtis, John Sullivan Dwight, Charles Mason, Charles Grafton Page, John Parkman, William O'Hara Robinson, and Joseph Brewster Walker. At the very end of the volume is a roster of the members of the Owl Club in 1833, with a brief mention of the first meeting on June 14. Members included Newell and Wendell Phillips. This club appears to have been made up of students studying law.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Webster Memorial Committee. Records, 1852-1860.

Title: Records, 1852-1860.

Records of a committee of one hundred men formed in Boston, Mass. in 1852 to consider and provide funding for an appropriate memorial to Daniel Webster. The committee recommended the erection of a bronze statue to be sculpted by Hiram Powers. The records pertain to the recommendations of an executive committee, the contractual agreement with Powers, the choice of the State House grounds as a site for the statue, and the disposition of funds following the erection of the statue in 1859. The records also contain a letter from George T. Curtis, secretary of the committee and recordkeeper throughout most of the volume, transferring the records to the Mass. Historical Society in 1863.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. in a case.

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George Brinton McClellan Papers, 1783-1898, (bulk 1850-1885)

Title: George Brinton McClellan Papers 1783-1898 (bulk 1850-1885)

Army officer and governor of New Jersey. Correspondence, diaries, military papers, memoranda, telegrams, notes, writings, printed copies of speeches, articles, and books relating primarily to McClellan's Civil War service, particularly the Yorktown and Maryland campaigns.

ArchivalResource: 33,000 items; 199 containers plus 3 oversize; 82 microfilm reels

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Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1813-1904.

Title: Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne [manuscript] 1659-1963 (bulk 1839-1864).

The collection contains literary manuscripts, correspondence, business papers, portraits and other items pertaining to Hawthorne. Collection contains the manuscripts of "Chiefly about war matters," "Consular experiences," "A description of a tragedy" by H. Aldrich, "Jonathan Cilley," fragment of "Our old home," fragment of "Septimus Felton, "A sketch or two in Warwick," a fragment of "Times Portraiture," annotated by Elizabeth P. Peabody, an 1815 copybook, an essay for "Homes of American Authors" beginning "I passed by the Old Manse...."and "Cuban Journal" by Sophia Peabody. The collection also contains an electrostatic copy of the original manuscript of "A wonder book for boys and girls." Correspondents include Catharine Ainsworth, George Bancroft, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Cox Bennett, Francis Bennoch, Dr. John Brown, Zachariah Burchmore, Henry Colman, Evert Duyckinck, Lydia Tuttle Fessenden, James T. Fields, Samuel G. Goodrich, Rufus W. Griswold, E. W. Gurney, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, George S. Hillard, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Alexander Ireland, George Payne Rainsford James, George Parsons Lathrop, Henry W. Longfellow, Horace Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., Robert Manning,Herman Melville (copy), James Miller, J. L. O'Sullivan, George P. Putnam, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, C.H. Peirce, Franklin Pierce, Roberts Brothers, Stephen Pleasonton, William Buell Sprague, George Nicholas Sanders, John Sartain, Alexander Strahan, Charles Sumner, L.A. Surette, Howard Ticknor, W. D. Ticknor, Ticknor & Co., William A. Tiffany, Martin Van Buren, C. W. Webber, Sidney Webster, William A. Wheeler, and E. P. Whipple, Topics include his the customhouse in Boston (1839-40), Brook Farm, 1841, customhouse in the District of Salem and Beverly (1847-54), and consul at Liverpool (1853-60). Also health of self and family, pet dog, wife and children, current writing, lecturers for the [Boston?] Lyceum, London social life, Delia Bacon's book on Shakespeare, life in Italy, horse racing in England, and pessimistic outlook on the Civil War. Of interest are in depth letters concering religion and spirituality from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to General E. A. Hitchcock. In addition there are brief mentions of Louis Agassiz, Barry Cornwall, George Curtis, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Grace Greenwood, Jean Ingelow, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Mary Peabody Mann, Mary Russell Mitford, John Lothrop Motley, and Albert Smith. The collection also contains various Custom House receipts consular affidavits and certification, shipping certificate, and royalty check of Hawthorne. In addition the collection contains miscellaneous legal documents pertaining to the Hawthorne family including a fragment of a legal document, 1659, a survey, 1675, a warrant, 1707, and an account 1800. In addition the collection contains portraits of Hawthorne including two ambrotypes, a carte-de-visite, a cabinet card, and several engravings, together with three pencil drawings by Sophia Hawhtorne and an engraving of the Hawthorne residence. Of interest is "Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tributes by American Authors on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth" containing letters and brief manuscripts solicited by Ralph Waldo Stoddard in 1904. The collection also contains photostatic and typescript copies of Hawthorne items elsewhere. There are several twentieth century letters concerning provenance of some of the letters, and a post 1955 compilation of notes and excerpts pertaining to Una Hawtorne.

ArchivalResource: 215 items.

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Richards, Franklin Snyder, 1849-1934. Letterbook, 1886-1890.

Title: Letterbook, 1886-1890.

Letterpress copies of correspondence to LDS officials and others relating to the defense of Mormons under federal charges of polygamy and unlawful cohabitation. Also addresses lobbying efforts for Utah's statehood in Congress.

ArchivalResource: 5 fd. (64 letters).

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Horatio King Papers, 1832-1906, (bulk 1857-1891)

Title: Horatio King Papers 1832-1906 (bulk 1857-1891)

United States postmaster general, editor, and author. Chiefly letters received by King relating to politics, to his literary, historical, and social activities, and social life in Washington, D.C., in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items; 13 containers; 3 linear feet

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Everett, Edward, 1794-1865. Letter, 1853 January, Boston, to Major General Jesup [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1853 January, Boston, to Major General Jesup [n.p.].

They are collecting Webster's papers and would like to know of any letters, papers, or printed material.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 29 cm.

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Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to George T. Curtis, [no year] Sept. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to George T. Curtis, [no year] Sept. 21.

Advising him to sell some property.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892. Letters and photographs of George William Curtis [manuscript], 1854-1864.

Title: Letters and photographs of George William Curtis [manuscript], 1854-1864.

Collection includes three letters from George William Curtis: to Mr. Ticknor; to Packman; and to Dear Sir. Also included is a photograph of George William Curtis by Gutekunst; and a G.W.C. signed engraving by T. Cole.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Title: Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Correspondence, poems, journals, and other compositions by members of the Parkman family of Boston, Massachusetts. Contains correspondence of the various members of the Parkman family, primarily of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman. Correspondents include: Elizabeth Dwight Cabot, Edmund Dwight, Mary Harrison Eliot Dwight, Anna Cabot Lowell, Anna Cabot Lowell Dwight Mills, Catherine Eliot Norton, Henry Parkman, Mary B. Parkman, Samuel Parkman, Margarett Searle, Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Ellen Dwight Twisleton, and Ellen Twisleton Parkman Vaughan. Letters discuss family, social engagements, and the events of daily life. Elizabeth Dwight Cabot's letters describe London and its tourist sites, society, social customs, and fashions. Edward Twisleton letters discuss Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whom he and his wife became friendly with in London, and his one meeting with Charlotte Brontë. There are commonplace books, essays, and journals of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman, as well as compositions by Ellen Dwight Twisleton. Additionally, there are many unidentified poems. Francis Parkman material consists of four letters to Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes (8.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00486/catalog View

Foster, Daniel, 1816-1864. Daniel Foster papers, 1841-1884, bulk: 1850-1864.

Title: Daniel Foster papers, 1841-1884, bulk: 1850-1864.

Papers of Daniel Foster, anti-slavery, temperance, and women's rights advocate, clergyman, and Civil War soldier. Papers include a diary describing his dedication to the anti-slavery effort, his longing for his wife Dora, his alienation and departure from the Congregational Church to join the Unitarian Church, his thoughts on the Thomas Sims trial in which Judge George Ticknor Curtis used the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to order the return of Sims to slavery in Georgia, his disappointment with his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson's occasional drinking, and the birth, life, and death of his daughter Alice. Also, sermon books, including extensive notes while a minister in Kansas; an autograph book containing sketches; and correspondence with his family, his brother Baxter, Nathan Hale, and his wife Dora. As chaplain of the Massachusetts 33rd Volunteers and as captain of the 37th Colored Volunteers, Foster served from 1861 until his death in 1864.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18025284 View

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Papers, 1775-1868.

Title: Papers, 1775-1868.

These papers touch nearly every phase of Buchanan's career, legal, political, and diplomatic. They contain: autograph letters and drafts, 1813-1868; letters, reports, and documents of Buchanan's ministry to Russia, 1832-1833; material dealing with his ministry to England, 1854-1856; correspondence while Secretary of State, 1845-1849; papers and correspondence relating to the growing differences between the North and South before the Civil War, 1857-1861; notes and articles written by Buchanan concerning his Administration and other topics, 1860; speeches and notes, 1827-1858; miscellaneous correspondence, 1783-1868, including letters from Simon Cameron, John W. Forney, John Slidell, Benjamin H. Brewster, Jeremiah Black, Nahum Capen, William B. Reed, John Meredith Read, Stephen Pleasonton and others; legal correspondence, 1775-1855, relating to Buchanan's early activity as an attorney and include papers of the Koenigmacher case and the impeachment of Judge Franklin; business letters, 1828-1867, relating to personal investments and business transactions, including bills, receipts, etc. Also: papers relating to the Democratic Convention, 1856; papers relating to the Post Office blank printing controversy, 1857-1860; biographical notes and papers on the life of James Buchanan; invitations to dinners and public affairs, 1833-1868; pamphlets, 1814-1866, including speeches made in Congress, Presidential messages, pamphlets on the jubilee of the Constitution, Eve of Rebellion, trial of Judge Peck, controversy with General Winfield Scott, a scrap book, obituary notices, notes and memoranda; and newspapers and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541049 View