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Languishing Commonwealth, Walley, [41].
Lanier, Sidney, [255]-[256].
La Salle, Parkman, [185].
Last Leaf, The, Holmes, [166].
Last of the Mohicans, The, Cooper, [89], [98], [99].
Leather-Stocking Tales, Cooper, [97]-[99].
Leaves of Grass, Whitman, [197], [200], [202]-[203].
Letters, Motley, [181].
Letters from an American Farmer, Crèvecœur, [60], [68].
Liberator, The, [137], [217], [218].
Library of American Biography, [176].
Life on the Mississippi, Clemens, [237].
Ligeia, Poe, [193].
Lincoln, Abraham, recognizes uncertainty in the nation, [2]; would have approved Winthrop, [29]; address at Cooper Union (1860), [104]-[105]; quoted, [155]; as a writer of liberty, [208]; character and writings, [226]-[233]; typically American, [265].
Lionel Lincoln, Cooper, [98].
Literati, Pope, [107].
Little Women, Alcott, [140].
London, Jack, [243]-[244].
London in 1724, [54]-[56].
Longfellow, H. W., in 1826, [89]; attitude toward Transcendentalism, [143]; life and writings, [152]-[157]; died (1882), [255]; disparagement of, [267].
Longstreet, A. B., [245].
Louisiana Purchase, [88].
Lowell, J. R., in 1826, [90]; attitude toward Transcendentalism, [143]; life and writings, [168]-[174]; died (1891), [255]; typically American, [265].
Luck of Roaring Camp, The, Harte, [241].
Lyceum system, [175].