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

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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.

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