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and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. The literary career of Curtis falls into two parts. Born in Providence, he went, as a boy, to New York, where, for a short while, he held a clerkship. His first direct connection with othered on the Indian with more sympathy. This was George Catlin, now famous for his paintings and books. Thanks to a kind Providence, not to our foresight, his invaluable painted records of a life that is past are now the property of the United States.f wealthy men had taken up the occupation of collector, most of them dealing in early Americana. John Carter Brown, of Providence, led off in the movement, and found worthy seconds in James Lenox and Samuel L. M. Barlow of New York, George Brinsley ommon people of the colony of Rhode Island concerning the unjust designs . . . of a number of Misers and money Jobbers (Providence, 1763); and a Letter from a gentleman in Connecticut relative to paper currency (Boston, 1766). The ablest of the pamph