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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 248 248 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 44 44 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 28 28 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 26 26 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 21 21 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. 20 20 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 19 19 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 13 13 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 11 11 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 9 9 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Letter from Knoxville. (search)
ugh wearied with a trip of one hundred and nineteen miles, which consumed twelve hours on the rail. As I entered my roos a number of books was observable on the mantle piece. Not having seen anything of the sort for more than a month, I laid violent hands on one, and, to my great surprise, found it to be the "Life and Works of Thomas Cole." Struck with the coincidence of name, I opened the volume hasfily, and made the discovery, that Thomas Cole was an English artist, who came to America in 1819, and obtained some celebrity in his professon. He delighted in visiting the Catskill mountains, and in a letter to a friend, he calls them the "gray-headed mountains." This expression reminds me of the mountains I have passed to-day, and "gray-headed" describes them to a dot. As the cars came slowly along by them, one's thoughts were inevitably turned to the traitors, who had scudded away in their fastnesses, and to the netarious acts of recent vandalism which caused the cars to move so cant