Off-hand takings : or, Crayon sketches of the noticeable men of our age

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A number of these biographies were originally published as "Crayon sketches and off-hand takings." "Embellished with twenty portraits on steel"--T.p Includes 20 engravings Book, cloth Daniel Webster -- Henry Clay -- Edwin H. Chapin (with portrait) -- John Charles Fremont -- Geo. P. Morris and N.P. Willis -- William H. Seward (with portrait) -- Edward Everett (with portrait) -- John P. Hale (with portrait) -- Father Taylor -- John C. Calhoun -- Lewis Cass -- Charles C. Burleigh -- Henry Ward Beecher (with portrait) -- Abbott Lawrence -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- John Van Buren (with portrait) -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Washington Irving -- G.W. Bethune -- E.P. Whipple -- G.C. Hebbe (with portrait) -- Rufus Choate -- Horace Mann -- Dr. Boardman -- Solon Robinson (with portrait) -- John Ross Dix -- P.T. Barnum (with portrait) -- Dr. E. Kane -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Geo. W. Kendall -- Samuel Houston (with portrait) -- Pierre Soulé -- W. Thackeray -- John Pierpont -- Horace Greeley (with portrait) -- Moses Grant -- George N. Briggs -- Theodore Parker -- Neal Dow (with portrait) -- Phillip S. White -- Charles Sumner -- Ogden Hoffman (with portrait) -- E.L. Snow -- Thomas Francis Meagher -- Wendell Phillips -- Elihu Burritt -- William Cullen Bryant (with portrait) -- Daniel S. Dickinson -- General Winfield Scott -- William R. Stacy -- Gerrit Smith (with portrait) -- Edward Beecher -- Thos. Hart Benton (with portrait) -- William L. Marcy -- Alfred Bunn -- Peter Cartwright -- Anson Burlingame -- George Law (with portrait) -- Dr. J.W. Francis -- Dr. S.H. Cox -- Freeman Hunt -- B.P. Shillaber -- Bishop James -- Rev. Mr. Wadsworth -- Rev. Dr. Durbin -- S.A. Douglas (with portrait) -- W. Gilmore Simms -- James Gordon Bennett -- Caleb Cushing -- James Watson Webb -- Dr. Duffield -- J.R. Lowell -- John Mitchell (with portrait) Holograph: T. Walker 1 18
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