Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised, except where those variations exist in book titles. All other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
The following corrections were made to the text:
[Page 142]: Fairfield, Genevieve Genevra
Daughter of S. L.
field, infra. Genevra, or the History
Fair of a Portrait;
-> Daughter of S. L. Fairfield, infra. Genevra, or the History of a Portrait;
[Page 174]: Hartt, Charles Frederick and Hartzell, J[onas] Hazard were placed into correct alphabetical order.
[Page 242]: McIlvaine, Charles Petitt, 1709-1873. -> 1799-1873.
[Page 335]: Sears, Barnas: president of Brown University, 1855-47. -> 1855-67.
[Page 367]: Stroud, George McDowell, 1895-1875. -> 1795-1875.