1877
COPYRIGHT.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
1877.
Electrotyped and Printed by
Rand, Avery, and Company,
117 Franklin Street,
Boston.
DEDICATION.
TO
GEORGE BARRELL EMERSON,
WITHOUT WHOSE COUNSEL AND WHOSE EFFICIENT KINDNESS THIS HISTORICAL SERIES WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN,
THIS VOLUME