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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana	7	1	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1863., [Electronic resource]	4	0	Browse	Search
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Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters	4	0	Browse	Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order	4	0	Browse	Search
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History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904	2	0	Browse	Search
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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 3: community life (search)

d his treatment of it in his disquisitions upon the scope and advantages of Universal Association, as found in various numbers of the Harbinger. In a review of Downing's Fruit and Fruit Trees of America, he reached a conclusion to which but few people of the present day will object. It runs as follows: There are many in the list of gentlemen whose aid he (Downing) acknowledges which bring before us golden and purple recollections, visions of fruits which in themselves are arguments enough against the doctrine that the earth is accursed and the mother of no good thing. If any man believe that social harmony is impossible we will agree to silence his most obstinate assertions with some of the pears named in Mr. Downing's catalogue. No one whose soul such flavors had ever approached could refuse to assent to the most glowing anticipations of the Future of Mankind. In another article he condemned Poe's Tales, then attracting wide attention, as clumsily contrived, unnatural

John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)

,389,401, 472, 473. Davis, General Jefferson--C., 262-264. Dayton, William L., 98. Deer Creek Bayou, 207. De Golyer scheme, 450. Denison, Ann, 1, 2, 3. Denison, David, 3. Denison, Governor, 354. DeShroon's Landing, 208, 216, 217. De Tocqueville, 72. Dial, the, 42, 50. Diderot, 158. Dinwiddie Court-House, 356. Dodge, General G. M., 406. Dosoris, 507, 508. Doughface, 128, 130. Douglas, Stephen A., 98, 125, 126, 136, 151, 153, 199, 228. Douglass, Frederick, 102. Downing, 52. Dred Scott decision, 150. Drouillard, J. P., 263, 264. Duane, Major, 330. Dunbar, Mr., 50. Dwight, John S., 45, 51. Dyer, General, 351, 352. E. Early, General, 336, 339, 341, 346, 365. Eckert, Major Thomas T., 368, 501. Edie, John R., 352. Education of Dana, 12, et seq. Effort to extradite Dana to Washington, 433. Electoral Commission, 442-445, 462. Eliot, Congressman, 295, 311. Emancipation of labor, 103. Emancipation Proclamation, 117, 169. Emerson,

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