ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS
PRESCOTT
ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS
WILLIAM HICKLING
PRESCOTT
BY
HARRY THURSTON PECK
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1905
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1905,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1905.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD DUNNING
AMICITIÆ CAUSA
PREFATORY NOTE
For the purely biographical portion of this book an especialacknowledgment of obligation is due to the valuable collection ofPrescott's letters and memoranda made by his friend George Ticknor, andpublished in 1864 as part of Ticknor's Life of W. H. Prescott. Allother available sources, however, have been explored, and arespecifically mentioned either in the text or in the footnotes.
H. T. P.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
March 1, 1905.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| The New England Historians | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Early Years | 13 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Choice of a Career | 39 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Success | 54 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| In Mid Career | 72 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| The Last Ten Years | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |