[JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.] From a daguerrotype by Brady. By permission of the owner, [unreadable] Cooper, Esq., Albany, N.Y.

[THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE (JENNY LIND).] Portrait by J.W. Orr From Soule photograph

[JENNY LIND AT CASTLE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY, 1850.] From an old print

[DR. JOHN WAKEFIELD FRANCIS.] From portrait by J. Goldbruam

[DR. FRANCIS' HOME IN NEW YORK CITY.] By Richardson

[CHRIST'S CHURCH, COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.] From a photograph by A.J. Telfer

[FENIMORE COOPER'S SCREEN GIFT.] From a print by courtesy of Miss Alice Bailey Keese

[BISHOP WILLIAM HEATHCOTE DE LANCEY.] From Scharf's "History of Westchester County, NY"

[DE LANCEY COAT OF ARMS.] From "A God-Child of Washington," by Katherine Schuyler Baxter