Notebook, 1859.

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Notebook, 1859.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298217

This notebook contains short essays on various topics, such as public singers ("the Mountebanks of the Voice"), the embarrassments of public men (Daniel E. Sickles and Philip Barton Key), songs, wit, wealth, suicide, Benjamin Rush, "that little sneak Kossuth," and modern authors ("the present wretches of the pen").

1 v. (ca. 116 p.).

American Philosophical Society Library

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American Philosophical Society Library

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Key, Philip Barton, 1757-1815

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