William Hickling Prescott

by Harry Thurston Peck

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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 especial acknowledgment of obligation is due to the valuable collection of Prescott's letters and memoranda made by his friend George Ticknor, and published in 1864 as part of Ticknor's Life of W. H. Prescott. All other available sources, however, have been explored, and are specifically mentioned either in the text or in the footnotes.