PREFACE.
This long-promised volume, the first of its kind, so far as known, ever given to the world, is now offered to the public. It is the result of a lecture given about three and a half years ago, which was repeated by request, and finally promised for publication, with the endorsement of one hundred and fifty subscribers.
No effort has been spared to have every statement in the book accurate; nor has any name been omitted which has presented a title to notice, in spite of the fact that the number of "Authors and Writers," has nearly doubled since the work of publication was undertaken. Any suggestion or criticism, however, will be gladly received by the author, as having a bearing on possible future work in this direction.
Morristown, New Jersey, February, 1893.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
POEM—MORRISTOWN.
HISTORIC MORRISTOWN.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
POETS— PAGE.
Wm. and Stephen V. R. Paterson [33]
Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney [40]
Alexander Nelson Easton [42]
Francis Bret Harte [45]
Mrs. M. Virginia Donaghe McClurg [48]
Charlton T. Lewis, LL. D. [54]
Miss Emma F. R. Campbell [58]
Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley [63]
Rev. Oliver Crane, D. D., LL. D. [63]
Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D. [68]
Mrs. Mary Lee Demarest [69]
Hon. Anthony Q. Keasbey [72]
Major Lindley Hoffman Miller [76]
Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich [79]
William Tuckey Meredith [81]
Miss Hannah More Johnson [84]
Miss Margaret H. Garrard [87]
Miss Julia E. Dodge [89]
Charles D. Platt [90]
Mrs. Julia R. Cutler [96]
Miss Frances Bell Coursen [99]
Miss Isabel Stone [100]
Rev. G. Douglass Brewerton [102]
Mrs. Alice D. Abell [104]
George Wetmore Colles, Jr. [105]
HYMNODIST—
John R. Runyon [107]
NOVELISTS AND STORY WRITERS—
Francis Richard Stockton [109]
Francis Bret Harte [118]
Miss Henrietta Howard Holdich [131]
Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris [141]
Miss Maria Mcintosh [146]
Mrs. Maria Mcintosh Cox [149]
David Young [155]
Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin [165]
Mrs. Catharine L. Burnham [171]
Hon. John Whitehead [179]
Mrs. Georgeanna Huyler Duer [181]
Madame de Meissner [186]
Miss Isabel Stone [188]
Augustus Wood [193]
Charles P. Sherman [193]
Miss Helen M. Graham [193]
Other Novelists and Story Writers [195]
TRANSLATORS—
Mrs. Adelaide S. Buckley [197]
Miss Margaret H. Garrard [202]
Other Translators [203]
LEXICOGRAPHER—
Charlton T. Lewis, LL. D. [205]
HISTORIANS AND ESSAYISTS—
William Cherry, Ancient Chronicler [207]
Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, D. D. [209]
Hon. Edmund D. Halsey [215]
Hon. John Whitehead [218]
Bayard Tuckerman [221]
Loyal Farragut [227]
Josiah Collins Pumpelly [229]
Miss Hannah More Johnson [233]
Mrs. Julia McNair Wright [237]
Mrs. Edwina L. Keasbey [239]
Mrs. Marian E. Stockton [243]
TRAVELS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES—
Marquis de Chastellux [247]
Rev. John L. Stephens [254]
Hon. Charles S. Washburne [255]
General Joseph Warren Revere [257]
Henry Day [260]
THEOLOGIANS—
Rev. Timothy Johnes, D. D. [264]
Rev. James Richards, D. D. [270]
Rev. Albert Barnes [271]
Rev. Samuel Whelpley [275]
Stevens Jones Lewis [278]
Rev. Rufus Smith Green, D. D. [279]
Rev. Wm. Durant [282]
Rev. J. Macnaughtan, D. D. [286]
Rev. C. DeWitt Bridgman [291]
Rev. J. T. Crane, D. D. [293]
Rev. H. A. Buttz, D. D., LL. D. [296]
Rev. J. K. Burr, D. D. [297]
Rev. J. E. Adams [299]
Rev. James M. Buckley, D. D., LL. D. [300]
Rev. James M. Freeman, D. D. [308]
Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., LL. D. [310]
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. [314]
Rt. Rev. Wm. Ingraham Kip, D. D., LL. D. [319]
Rev. William Staunton, D. D. [323]
Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D. [327]
Rev. Charles E. Knox, D. D. [332]
Rev. Albert Erdman, D. D. [334]
Rev. Joseph M. Flynn, R. D. [337]
Rev. George H. Chadwell [338]
Rev. William M. Hughes, S. T. D. [345]
PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND LAWYERS—
Hon. Jacob W. Miller [351]
Hon. William Burnet Kinney [355]
Hon. Theodore F. Randolph [358]
Hon. Edward W. Whelpley [360]
Hon. Jacob Vanatta [362]
Hon. George T. Werts [364]
Joseph F. Randolph [365]
Edward Q. Keasbey [367]
SCIENTISTS—
Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D. [368]
Alfred Vail [371]
William Graham Sumner, LL. D. [376]
Elwyn Waller, Ph. D. [380]
George W. Maynard, Ph. D. [382]
Emory McClintock, LL. D. [383]
Andrew F. West, LL. D. [384]
Señor José Gros [386]
MEDICAL AUTHORS AND WRITERS—
Condict W. Cutler, M. S., M. D. [388]
Phanet C. Barker, M. D. [390]
Horace A. Buttolph, M. D., LL. D. [392]
AUTHORS AND WRITERS ON ART—
Thomas Nast [395]
Rev. Jared Bradley Flagg, D. D. [398]
Rev. J. Leonard Corning, D. D. [400]
George Herbert McCord, A. N. A. [401]
DRAMATIST—
William G. Van Tassel Sutphen [403]