Old New England

The Old New England CD, with 618 books, includes history, travel experience books, philosophy (William James and George Santayana), religion (Mary Baker Eddy), nature, periodicals (like The Atlantic Monthly), and and the works of authors who lived in New England, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa Mae Alcott, Henry James, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Mercy Otis Warren.

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• Nature and Wildlife in New England
• Periodicals
• Authors Who Lived in New England

Table of Contents

History Colonial Period

• The Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Leland
• The Beginnings of New England by John Fiske, 1892
• The Mayflower Compact 1620 (short)
• The Mayflower and Her Log, July 15, 1620 - May 6, 1621, Chiefly from Original Sources, by Azel Ames
• The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
• Fundamental Orders of 1639 (short)
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History 1620-1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Pilgrims of New England: A Tale of the Early American Settlers by mrs. J.B. Webb
• Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Earle
• Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson (1635-1716)
• Original Narratives of Early American History
• First Thanksgiving Proclamation 1676 (short)
• Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Carl Holliday, 1922

Revolution

• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Thayer, 1889
• Vie de Franklin by M. Mignet
• James Otis the Pre-Revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath
• Original Writings of Samuel Adams
• Volume 2 of 4
• Volume 3 of 4
• Volume 4 of 4
• The Rangers or the Tory's Daughter, a Tale Illustrative of the Revolutionary History of Vermont and the Northern Cammpaign of 1777 by D. Thompson (1795-1868)
• The Yankee Tea-Party or Boston in 1773 by Henry C. Watson

Early Republic

• Brook Farm by John Codman
• Communistic Societies of the United States by Charles Nordhoff
• A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of Presidents by James Richardson, 1897
• John Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• Franklin Pierce
• Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge
• Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
• Webster's March 7 Speech and the Secession Movement (1850)
• Selected Speeches of Daniel Webster
• The Federalist Papers
• The Death of the Federalist Party by Richard Seltzer
• Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams by William Seward
• Orations by John Quincy Adams
• Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts by William Apes, 1835

After Civil War

• The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams
• Have Faith in Massachusetts, speeches by Calvin Coolidge
• The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron, 1909

New England Philosophers

John Dewey

• Democracy and Education

William James

• The Meaning of Truth
• A Pluralistic Universe
• Pragmatism
• Varieties of Religious Experience

George Santayana

• The Life of Reason
• The Winds of Doctrine, 1913

Religion in New England

• The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by M. Louise Green
• The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut by John Taylor

Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science

• Manual of the Mother Church
• No and Yes
• Pulpit and Press
• Retrospection and Introspection
• Rudimental Divine Science
• Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures
• Unity of Good

Unitarianism

• Our Unitarian Gospel by M.J. Savage
• Twenty-Four Short Seromons on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation by John Dodds, 1832
• Two Christmas Celebrations, AD 1 and 1856 by Theodore Parker
• Unitarianism by W.G. Tarrant, 1912
• Unitarianism in America: a History of Its Origin and Development by George Willis Cooke

Ellen G. White

• Acts of the Apostles
• Desire of Ages
• The Great Controversy
• Patriarchs and Prophets
• Steps to Christ

Accounts of Travel in New England

• An Englishman's Travels in America by J. Benwell, 1857
• The Hills of Hingham by Dallas Lore Sharp
• American Notebooks by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• American Notes by Charles Dickens
• Better Homes in America by Mrs. W.B. Meloney
• Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope [mother of Anthony] (1832)
• First Impressions of the New world by Isabella Strange Trotter, 1858
• Your United States: Impressions of a First Visit by Arnold Bennett, 1912
• A Visit to the US in 1841 by Joseph Sturge, 1842
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

Nature and Wildlife in New Engalnd

• Camp and Trail: a Story of the Maine Woods by Isabel Hornibrook
• Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin L. Dame and Henry Brooks
• Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine by Walter Rich
• The Lobster Fishery of Maine by John Cobb, 1899
• New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century
• The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River 1895-1896
• see also Henry David Thoreau

Periodicals

Arena

• June 1891
• July 1891
• Atlantic Monthly
• Nov. 1857
• Dec. 1857
• Jan. 1858
• Feb. 1858
• March 1858
• April 1858
• May 1858
• June 1858
• July 1858
• Aug. 1858
• Sept. 1858
• Oct. 1858
• Nov. 1858
• Jan 1859
• Feb. 1859
• March 1859
• April 1859
• June 1859
• July 1859
• Aug. 1859
• Oct. 1859
• Dec. 1859
• Jan. 1860
• March 1860
• April 1860
• June 1860
• July 1860
• Aug. 1860
• Sept. 1860
• Oct. 1860
• Nov. 1860
• Dec. 1860
• Jan. 1861
• Feb. 1861
• March 1861
• April 1861
• May 1861
• June 1861
• July 1861
• Aug. 1861
• Oct. 1861
• Nov. 1861
• Dec. 1861
• Feb. 1862
• March 1862
• April 1862
• May 1862
• June 1862
• July 1862
• Aug. 1862
• Sept. 1862
• Oct. 1862
• Nov. 1862
• Dec. 1862
• Jan. 1863
• Feb. 1863
• March 1863
• April 1863
• May 1863
• July 1863
• Aug. 1863
• Sept. 1863
• Oct. 1863
• Nov. 1863
• Dec. 1863
• Jan. 1864
• Feb. 1864
• March 1864
• April 1864
• May 1864
• Aug. 1864
• Oct. 1864
• Dec. 1866
• July 1867
• August 1867
• Bay State Monthly
• Feb. 1884
• March 1884
• April 1884
• May 1884
• June 1884
• Nov. 1884
• Dec. 1884
• Jan. 1885
• Feb. 1885
• volume 2, 1885
• March 1885
• volume 3
• May 1885
• Aug. 1885
• Sept. 1885
• Oct. 1885
• Nov. 1885
• Cape Code and all the Pilgrim Land
• June 1922
• The Continental Monthly
• Jan. 1862
• Feb. 1862
• March 1862
• April 1862
• May 1862
• June 1862
• July 1862
• May 1863
• June 1863
• Oct. 1863
• Dec. 1863
• March 1864
• April 1864
• Olden-Times Series
• Curiosities of the Old Lottery
• New England Sunday
• Literary Curiosities

Authors Who Lived in New England

Henry Adams (1838-1918), bio in Wikipedia

• Democracy: an American Novel
• The Education of Henry Adams
• Esther, 1884
• Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes

Louisa Mae Alcott (1832-1888), bio at Wikipedia

• The Abbot's Ghost (under the name of A.M. Barnard)
• Behind a Mask (under the name of A.M. Barnard)
• Eight Cousins
• Flower Fables
• A Garland for Girls
• Hospital Sketches
• Jack and Jill
• Jo's Boys
• Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
• Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
• Little Women
• Louisa Alcott Reader
• Marjorie's Three Gifts (short story)
• A Modern Cinderella
• The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
• An Old-Fashioned Girl
• On Picket Duty and Other Tales
• Pauline's Passion and Punishment
• Rose in Bloom(sequel to Eight Cousins)
• Under the Lilacs
• Work
• about Louisa May Alcott
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns

Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928), bio at Wikipedia

• A Hilltop on the Marne
• On the Edge of the War Zone
• Told in a French Garden

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1834-1899), bio at Wikipedia

• Adrift in New York
• Andy Grant's Pluck
• Ballads
• Bound to Rise
• Brave and Bold
• The Cash Boy
• Cast Upon the Breakers
• Do and Dare
• Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience
• The Errand Boy, or How Phil Brent Won Success
• Facing the World
• Frank and Fearless
• Frank's Campaign, or the Farm and the Camp
• From Canal Boy to President or the Boyhood and manhood of James Garfield, 1881
• Hector's Inheritance
• Helping Himself
• Herbert Carter's Son
• Jack's Ward
• Joe the Hotel Boy, or Winning by Pluck
• Joe's Luck
• Making His Way
• Nothing to Eat
• Only an Irish Boy
• Paul Prescott's Charge
• Paul the Peddlar, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
• Phil the Fiddler
• Ragged Dick
• The Story Boy
• Timothy Crump's Ward
• The Young Explorer
• The Young Musician

Edward Bellamy (1850-1896), bio at Wikipedia

• Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
• The Duke of Stockbridge: a Romance of Shay's Rebellion
• Equality
• Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887
• Miss Ludington's Sister

The Reverend Phillips Brooks (bishop of Massachusetts) (1835-1893), bio at Wikipedia

• Addresses

Alice Brown (1857-1948), bio at Wikipedia

• Meadow Grass: Tales of New England Life
• Tiverton Tales

William Wells Brown (1816?-1884), bio at Wikipedia

• Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), bio at Wikipedia

• A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1870)
• Letters of a Traveller, 1850

Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882), bio at Wikipedia

• Two Years Before the Mast

John William De Forest (826-1906), bio at Wikipedia

• Overland

Orville Dewey (1794-1882), bio at Wikipedia

• Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, edited by Mary Dewey

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), bio at Wikipedia

• Series One
• Series Two
• Series Three

W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963), bio at Wikipedia

• The Conservation of Races (short)
• Darkwater
• The Negro
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece (novel)
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Suppression of the African Slave Trade

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), bio at Wikipedia

• The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Essays
• Essays, First Series
• Essays, Second Series
• May-Day and other Pieces
• Poems
• Representative Men
• about Emerson
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)
• Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
• Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Annie Fields 1834-1915), bio at Wikipedia

• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)

James Fields (1817-1881), bio at Wikipedia

• Yesterdays with Authors

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), bio at Wikipedia

• Adventures of Anne: Stories of Colonial Times, 1886
• The Butterfly House
• By the Light of the Soul
• Comfort Pease and the Gold Ring
• The Debtor
• Evelina's Garden
• Giles Corey: Yeoman (play)
• The Green Door
• The Jamesons
• Jane Field
• Jerome
• Madelon
• Pembroke, 1900
• Portion of Labor
• The Shoulders of Atlas
• Young Lucretia and other Stories

Robert Frost (1874-1963), bio at Wikipedia

• A Boy's Will
• North of Boston

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), bio at Wikipedia

• Moccasin Ranch, a Story of Dakota

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935), bio at Wikipedia

• The Forerunner, a Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, 1909-1910
• Herland
• Our Androcentric Culture
• What Diantha Did
• The Yellow Wallpaper

Charles Goddard (1879-1951), bio at Wikipedia

• The Perils of Pauline

Robert Grant (1852-1940), bio at Wikipedia

• The Opinions of a Philosopher

Joseph Grismer

• 'Way Down East, a Romance of New England Life

Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), bio at Wikipedia

• How to Do It
• The Man Without a Country and Other Tales, 1891

H. Irving Hancock (1868-1922), bio at Wikipedia

• The Young Engineers in Arizona

Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934)

• Archibald Malmaison
• Confessions and Criticisms
• David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
• Hawthorne and His Circle
• The Lock and Key Library, volume 4 (editor)
• The Subterranean Brotherhood

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), bio at Wikipedia

• American Notebooks
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Ancestral Footstep
• Biographical Studies
• Mrs. Hutchinson
• Sir William Phips
• Thomas Green Fessenden
• Jonathan Cilly
• The Blithedale Romance
• The Book of Autographs (story)
• Browne's Folly (story)
• The Dolliver Romance
• Dr. Bullivant (story)
• Fanshawe
• From Mosses from an Old Manse
• The Birthmark
• Young Goodman Brown
• Rappaccini's Daughter
• Mrs. Bullfrog
• The Celestial Railroad
• The Procession of Life
• Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
• Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
• Drowne's Wooden Image
• Roger Malvin's Burial
• The Artist of the Beautiful
• The Gorgon's Head (story)
• The Great Stone Face
• The Great Stone Face
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Great Carbuncle
• Sketches from Memory
• Grimshawe's Secret
• The House of the Seven Gables
• Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge, edted by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Marble Faun, volume 1
• The Marble Faun, volume 2
• The Miraculous Pitcher (story)
• Old Woman's Tale (story)
• Our Old Home (English Sketches)
• The Paradise of Children (story)
• Passages from the English Notebooks (2 volumes)
• Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (2 volumes)
• The Scarlet Letter
• Septimus Felton
• Sketches and Studies
• Sketches from Memory
• The Snow Image
• The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
• The Great Stone Face
• Ethan Brand
• The Canterbury Pilgrims
• The Devil in Manuscript
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Tales and Sketches (story)
• Tanglewood Tales
• Time's Portraiture (story)
• The Three Golden Apples (story)
• True Stories of History and Biography
• Benjamin West
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Samuel Johnson
• Oliver Cromwell
• Benjamin Franklin
• Queen Chistina
• Twice-Told Tales
• The Gray Champion
• The Wedding Knell
• The Minister's Black Veil
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount
• The Gentle Boy
• Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
• Wakefield
• The Great Carbuncle
• David Swan
• The Hollow of the Three Hills
• Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
• Legends of the Province House
•   I. Howe's Masquerade
•   II. Edward Randolph's Portrait
•   III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle
•   IV. Old Esther Dudley
• The Ambitious Guest
• Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
• The Shaker Bridal
• Endicott and the Red Cross
• Twice-Told Tales, 1889 edition
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
• Grandfather and the Children and the Chair
• The Puritans and the Lady Arbela
• A Rainy Day
• Troublous Times
• The Government of New England
• The Pine-Tree Shillings
• The Quakers and the Indians
• The Indian Bible
• England and New England
• The Sunken Treasure
• What the Chair Had Known
• Extracts from the Life of John Eliot
• The Chair in the Firelight
• The Salem Witches
• The Old-Fashioned School
• Cotton Mather
• The Rejected Blessing
• Pomps and Vanities
• The Provincial Muster
• The Old French War and the Acadian Exiles
• The End of the War
• Thomas Hutchinson
• Account of the deportaion of the Acadians
• A New Year's Day
• The Stamp Act
• The Hutchinson Mob
• The British Troops in Boston
• The Boston Massacre
• A Collection of Portrait
• The Tea Party and Lexington
• The Siege of Boston
• The Tory's Farewell
• The War for Independence.
• Grandfather's Dream
• A Letter from Governor Hutchinson
• about Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thams Codman
• Hawthorne by Henry James
• Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
• Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
• Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
• My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears
• Nathaniel Hawtorne by George E. Woodbury
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
• A Study of Hawthorne by George Lathrop

L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone (1844-1928), bio at Wikipedia

• In the Courts of Memory

Robert Herrick (1868-1938), bio at Wikipedia

• One Woman's Life

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), bio at Wikipedia

• The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
• Elsie Venner
• The Guardian Angel
• John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir
• Medical Essays
• A Mortal Antipathy
• One Hundred Days in Europe
• Over the Teacups
• Pages from an Old Volume of Life
• The Poet at the Breakfast Table
• Poetical Works
• The Professor at the Breakfast Table
• works about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: Oliver Wendell Holmes (essay) by William Dean Howells
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935

• The Common Law

William Dean Howells (1837-1920), bio at Wikipedia

• The Albany Depot (play)
• Annie Kilburn
• April Hopes
• Between the Dark and the Daylight
• A Chance Acquaintance
• Confessions of a Summer Colonist (essay)
• Dr. Breen's Practice
• The Elevator(play)
• Emile Zola (essay)
• The Eye of the Needle
• Familiar Spanish Travel
• Fennel and Rue
• A Foregone Conclusion
• The Garotters (play)
• Indian Summer
• Italian Journeys
• Henry James, Jr. (essay)
• The Kentons
• A Lady of Aroostook
• The Landlord at the Lion's Head, volume 1
• The Landlord at the Lion's Head volume 2
• Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
• The Leatherwood God
• Literary Boston(essay)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances:
• A Belated Guest [Bret Harte](essay)
• Cambridge Neighbors(essay)
• My Mark Twain (essay)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (essay)
• Studies of Lowell (essay)
• The White Mr. Longfellow (essay)
• The Young Contributor (essay)
• Literature and Life:
• American Literary Centers (essay)
• The Man of Letters as a Man of Business (essay)
• A Little Swiss Sojourn
• London Films
• The March Family Trilogy
• Their Wedding Journey
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 1
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 2
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 3
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 4
• A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 5
• Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 1
• Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 2
• Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 3
• The Minister's Charge
• Modern Italian Poets
• A Modern Instance
• Notes of a Vanished Summer (essay)
• Of Literature (four related books)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances (complete)
• Literature and Life (complete)
• My Literary Passions (complete)
• Criticism and Fiction (complete)
• An Open-Eyed Conspiracy -- an Idyl of Saratoga
• A Pair of Patient Lovers
• The Parlor Car (play)
• A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction (essay)
• Questionable Shapes
• Ragged Lady, volume 1
• Ragged Lady, volume 2
• The Register (play)
• The Rise of Silas Lapham
• Roman Holidays and Others
• Roundabout to Boston
• Seven English Cities
• Short Stories and Essays
• Worries of a Winter Walk
• Summer Isles of Eden
• Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
• A Circus in the Suburbs
• A She Hamlet
• The Midnight Platoon
• The Beach at Rockaway
• Sawdust in the Arena
• At a Dime Museum
• American Literature in Exile
• The Horse Show
• The Problem of the Summer
• Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
• From New York into New England
• The Art of the Adsmith
• The Psychology of Plagiarism
• Puritanism in American Fiction
• The What and How in Art
• Politics in American Authors
• Storage
• "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
• The Sleeping-Car -- a Farce(play)
• Some Anomalies of the Short Story (essay)
• Spanish Prisoners of War (essay)
• The Standard Household-Effect Company (essay)
• Suburban Sketches
• A Traveller from Altruria
• Venetian Life
• The Whole Family (with other authors)

Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.) (1830-1885), bio at Wikipedia

• Between Whiles
• Bits About Home Matters, 1873
• Calendar of Sonnets (1876)
• Ramona
• Saxe Holm's Stories

Henry James (1843-1916), bio at Wikipedia

• The Altar of the Dead (story)
• The Ambassadors
• The American
• The Aspern Papers
• The Author of Beltraffio (story)_
• The Awkward Age
• The Beast in the Jungle(story)
• The Beldonald Holbein (story)
• The Bostonians
• volume 1
• volume 2
• A Bundle of Letters (story)_
• The Chaperone (story)
• Confidence
• The Coxon Fund (story)
• Daisy Miller (story)
• The Death of the Lion (story)
• Eugene Pickering (story)
• The Europeans
• The Figure in the Carpet (story)
• Glasses (story)
• The Golden Bowl
• Greville Fane (story)
• Hawthorne
• In the Cage
• An International Episode
• Italian Hours
• The Jolly Corner (story)
• The Lesson of the Master
• A Little Tour in France
• Louisa Pallant
• Madame de Mauves
• The Madonna of the Future (story)
• The Marriages (story)
• Nona Vincent (story)_
• Pandora (story)
• The Patagonia (story)
• The Pension Beaurepas (story)
• The Point of View (story)
• Portrait of a Lady, volume 1
• Portrait of a Lady, volume 2
• The Pupil (story)
• The Real Thing (story)
• The Reverberator
• Roderick Hudson
• Sir Dominick Ferrand (story)
• Some Short Stories
• Brooksmith
• The Real Thing
• The Story of It
• Flickerbridge
• Mrs. Medwin
• The Turn of the Screw
• Washington Square
• What Daisy Knew
• The Whole Family (with other authors)
• works about Henry James
• Henry James, Jr. by William Dean Howells (essay)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), bio at Wikipedia

• Deephaven and Selected Stories

Helen Keller (1880-1968), bio at Wikipedia

• Song of the Stone Wall (poem)
• The Story of My Life

Lucy Larcom

• A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory

Joseph Lincoln (1870-1944), bio at Wikipedia

• Cape Code Ballads and Other Verses
• Cape Cod Stories
• Cap'n Dan's Daughter
• Kent Knowles: Quahaug

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924)

George Washington by Henry Cabot Lodge

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge
• Hero Tales from American History by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), bio at Wikipedia

• The Children's Own Longfellow (selections from his poems)
• Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow
• Evangeline
• The Golden Legend
• Longfellow's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
• Song of Hiawatha
• The Wreck of the Hesperus
• essay about Longfellow
• The White Mr. Longfellow, from Literary Friends and Acquaintances by William Dean Howells
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)

Thomas Lounsberry (1838-1915), bio at Wikipedia

• James Fenimore Cooper

Amy Lowell (1874-1925), bio at Wikipedia

• A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
• Men, Women, and Ghosts
• Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), bio at Wikipedia

• Among My Books
• First Series
• Second Series
• The Complete Poetical Works
• The Function of the Poet and Other Essays

Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems

Herman Melville (1819-1891), bio at Wikipedia

• Bartleby, the Scrivener (story)
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
• Billy Budd
• I and My Chimney (story)
• Israel Potter
• Mardi: and a Voyage Thither
• volume 1
• volume 2
• John Marr and Other Poems
• Moby Dick
• Omoo
• Piazza Tales
• Redburn
• Typee: a Romance of the South Seas
• The White Jacket

Charles Clark Munn

• Pocket Island: a Story of Country Life in New England

Caroline Clifford Newton

• Once Upon a Time in Connecticut

Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), bio at Wikipedia

• Anna Christie
• The First Man
• The Hairy Ape

Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), bio at Wikipedia

• At Home and Abroad
• Memoirs
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Woman in the 19th Century

Charles Felton Pidgin

• Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks

William Prescott (1796-1859), bio at Wikipedia

• History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott
• History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by William Prescott
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), bio at Wikipedia

• The Children of the Night
• The Man Against the Sky
• The Three Taverns

Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903), bio at Wikipedia

• Abraham Lincoln, poem

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), bio at Wikipedia

• Betty's Bright Idea and The First Christmas of New England
• Lady Byron Vindicated
• Pink and White Tyranny
• Queer Little Folks
• Hen that Hatched Ducks
• The Nutcrackers of Nutcracker Lodge
• The History of Tip-Top
• Miss Katy-Did and Miss Cricket
• Mother Magpie's Mischief
• The Squirrels that live in a House
• Hum, the Son of Buz
• Our Country Neighbours
• The Diverting History of Little Whiskey
• Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• about Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe (her son)
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), bio at Wikipedia

• Excursions (1863)
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (essay)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (essay)
• Walden
• Walking (essay)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Wild Apples (essay)

Mark Twain (AKA Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910), bio at Wikipedia

• 1601 or Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (story)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
• The $30,000 Bequest
• A Dog's Tale
• Was It Heaven?  Or Hell?
• A Cure for the Blues
• The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
• The Californian's Tale
• A Helpless Situation
• A Telephonic Conversation
• Edward Mills and George Benton:  A Tale
• The Five Boons of Life
• The First Writing-machines
• Italian without a Master
• Italian with Grammar
• A Burlesque Biography
• How to Tell a Story
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
• An Entertaining Article
• A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
• Amended Obituaries
• A Monument to Adam
• A Humane Word from Satan
• Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
• Advice to Little Girls
• Post-mortem Poetry
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Portrait of King William III
• Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
• Extracts from Adam's Diary
• Eve's Diary
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
• The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
• The Grateful Poodle
• The Benevolent Author
• The Grateful Husband
• Punch, Brothers, Puch
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Canvasser's Tale
• An Encounter with an Interviewer
• Paris Notes
• Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
• Speech on the Babies
• Speech on the Weather
• Concerning the American Language
• Rogers
• The American Claimant
• The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (story)
• Christian Science
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
• The Curious Republic of Gondour
• A Memory
• Introductory to "Memoranda"
• About Smelt
• A Couple of Sad Experiences
• Dan Murphy
• The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
• Curious Relic for Sale
• A Reminiscence fo the Back Settlements
• A Royal Compliment
• The Approaching Epidemic
• The Tone-Imparting Committee
• Our Precious Lunatic
• The European War
• The Wild Man Interviewed
• Last Words of Great Men
• A Dog's Tale (story)
• A Double Barrelled Detective (story)
• Editorial Wild Oats
• Essays on Paul Bourget
• Extract's from Adam's Diary (story)
• Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (story)
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (essay)
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again (story)
• A Horse's Tale (story)
• How to Tell a Story and Others (stories and essays)
• How to Tell a Story
• The Wounded Soldier
• The Golden Arm
• Mental Telegraphy Again
• The Invalid's Story
• In Defence of Harriet Shelley (essay)
• The Innocents Abroad
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
• The Exquimaux Maiden's Romance
• Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
• Is He Living or Is He Dead?
• My Debut as a Literary Person
• At the Appetite-Cure
• Concerning the Jews
• From the 'London Times' of 1904
• About Play-Acting
• Travelling with a Reformer
• Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
• Luck
• The Captain's Story
• Stirring Times in Austria
• Meisterschaft
• My Boyhood Dreams
• To the Above Old People
• In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens
• The Mysterious Stranger (stories)
• The Mysterious Stranger
• A Fable
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 1)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 2)
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Rambling Idle Excursion (story)
• Roughing It
• Sketches New and Old
• My Watch
• Political Economy
• The Jumping Frog
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy
• The Story of the Good Little Boy
• A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
• Niagara
• Answers to Correspondents
• To Raise Poultry
• Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
• My First Literary Venture
• How the Author was Sold in Newark
• The Office Bore
• Johnny Greer
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• The Case of George Fisher
• Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
• The Judges "Spirited Woman"
• Information Wanted
• Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girld
• My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
• A Fashion Item
• Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
• A Fine Old Man
• Science vs. Luck
• The Late Benjamin Franklin
• Mr. Bloke's Item
• A Medieval Romance
• Petition Concerning Copyright
• After-Dinner Speech
• Lionizing Murderers
• A New Crime
• A Curious Dream
• A True Story
• The Siamese Twins
• Speech a thte Scottish Banquet in London
• A Ghost Story
• The Capitoline Venus
• Speech on Accident Insurance
• John Chinaman in New York
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
• The Petrified Man
• My Bloody Massacre
• The Undertaker's Chat
• Concerning Chambermaids
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
• "After" Jenkins
• About Barbers
• "Party Cries" in Ireland
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
• History Repeats Itself
• Honored as a Curiosity
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• Cannibalism in the Cars
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• The Widow's Protext
• The Scriptural Panoramist
• Curing a Cold
• A Curious Pleasure Excursion
• Running for Governor
• A Mysterious Visit
• Speeches
• The Stolen White Elephant (story)
• Those Extraordinary Twins (story)
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (story)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (story)
• A Tramp Abroad
• What Is Man? And Other Essays
• What Is Man?
• The Death of Jean
• The Turning-Point of My Life
• How to Make History Dates Stick
• The Memorable Assassination
• A Scrap of Curious History
• Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty
• At the Shrine of St. Wagner
• William Dean Howells
• English as She is Taught
• A Simplified Alphabet
• As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
• Concerning Tobacco
• Taming the Bicycle
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• 4 books about Mark Twain
• Complete Letters of Mark Twain 1853-1910, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mark Twain: A Biography (in three volumes) by Albert Bigelow Paine
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
• essay by Mark Twain about Mark Twain
A Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain

Artemus Ward (AKA Charles Farrar Browne (1834-1867), bio at Wikipedia

• Complete Works of Artemus Ward
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7

William Ware (1797-1852), bio at Wikipedia

• Zenobia or The Fall of Palmyra

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), bio at Wikipedia

• Backlog Studies
• Baddeck and that Sort of Thing
• Being a Boy
• Captain John Smith
• Complete Essays (three complete books, plus other essays)
• As We Were Saying
• Rose and Chrysanthemum
• The Red Bonnet
• The Loss in Civilization
• Social Screaming
• Does Refinement Kill Individuality?
• The Directorie Gown
• The Mystery of the Sex
• The Clothes of Fiction
• The Broad A
• Chewing Gum
• Women in Congress
• Shall Women Propose?
• Frocks and the Stage
• Altruism
• Social Clearing-House
• Dinner-Table Talk
• Naturalization
• Art of Governing
• Love of Display
• Value of the Commonplace
• The Burden of Christmas
• The Responsibility of Writers
• The Cap and Gown
• A Tendency of the Age
• A Locoed Novelist
• As We Go
• Our President
• The Newspaper-Made Man
• Interesting Girls
• Give the Men a Chance
• The Advent of Candor
• The American Man
• The Electric Way
• Can a Husband Open His Wife's Letters?
• A Leisure Class
• Weather and Character
• Born with an "Ego"
• Juventus Mundi
• A Beautiful Olf Age
• The Attraction of the Repulsive
• Giving as a Luxury
• Climate and Happiness
• The New Feminine Reserve
• Repose in Activity
• Women -- Ideal and Real
• The Art of Idleness
• Is There Any Conversation?
• The Tall Girl
• The Deadly Diary
• The Whistling Girl
• Born Old and Rich
• The "Old Soldier"
• The Island of Bimini
• June
• Nine Short Essays
• A Night in the Garden of the Tuileries
• Turthfulness
• The Pursuit of Happiness
• Literature and the Stage
• The Live-Saving and Life Prolonging Art
• "H.H." in Southern California
• Simplicity
• The English Volunteers During the Late Invasion
• Nathan Hale
• Fashions in Literature
• The American Newspaper
• Certain Diversities of American Life
• The Pilgrim, and the American of Today -- [1892]
• Some Causes of the Prevailing Discontent
• The Education of the Negro
• The Indeterminate Sentence
• Literary Copyright
• The Relationship of Literature to Life
• Biographical Scketch by Thomas R. Lounsbury
• The Relation of Literature to Life
• "Equality"
• Modern Fiction
• Thoughts Suggested by Mr. Froude's "Progress"
• England
• The Novel and the Common School
• The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
• The Gilded Age (co-author with Mark Twain)
• The Golden House
• How Spring Came to New England(essay)
• In the Wilderness
• Washington Irving
• A Little Journey in the World
• My Summer in a Garden
• On Horseback
• Saunterings
• The Story of Pocahontas
• That Fortune
• Their Pilgrimage
• What Is Your Culture to Me? (speech)

Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), bio at Wikipedia

(I entered these works by Mercy Otis Warren by hand. (The old type, with "s" that looks like "f" and other peculiarities characteristic of the time, makes this text impossible to scan). I have modernized the spelling and punctuation and made other edits for readability. Please let me know of typos, so I can fix them promptly. Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.com)

 Plays

• The Adulateur, a five-act play, published in 1773
• The Defeat, excerpts from a play, published 1773
• The Group, a three-act play, published in 1775
• The Blockheads, a three-act play, published  in 1776, shortly after the British withdrew from Boston
• The Motley Assembly, a farce, published in 1779.

Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions, 1788. Pamphlet against the Constitution, formerly attributed to Elbridge Gerry, now acknowledged as written by Mercy Otis Warren

Chronology of Mercy Otis Warren 1728 - 1814 by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University

Introduction to the work of Mercy Otis Warren 1728 - 1814 by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University

Introduction to Observations on the New Constitution by Mercy Otis Warren by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University

The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution

"Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution" a review of this book by Richard Seltzer

• Volume 1 -- from the origins to Valley Forge in 1778
• Introduction -- An Address to the Inhabitants of the United States of America
• Chapter 1 -- Introductory Observations
• Chapter 2 -- The Stamp Act. A Congress convened at New York, 1765. The Stamp Act repealed. New grievances. Suspension of the legislature of New York.
• Chapter 3 -- Cursory Observations. Massachusetts Circular Letter. A new House of Representatives called. Governor Bernard impeached. A riot on the seizure of a vessel. Troops arrive. A Combination against all commerce with Great Britain. A General Assembly convened at Boston, removed to Cambridge. Governor Bernard after his impeachment repairs to England.
• Chapter 4 -- Character of Mr. Hutchinson. Appointed Governor of Massachusetts. The attempted Assassination of Mr. Otiose. Transactions of the March 5, 1770. Arrival of the East India Company's Tea Ships. Establishment of Committees of Correspondence. The Right of Parliamentary Taxation without Representation urged by Mr. Hutchinson. Articles of Impeachment resolved on in the House of Representatives against Governor Hutchinson and Lieutenant Governor Oliver. Chief Justice of the Province impeached. Chief Justice of the Province impeached. Boston Port Bill. Governor Hutchinson leaves the Province.
• Chapter 5 -- General Gage appointed Governor of Massachusetts. General Assembly meets at Salem. A proposal for a Congress from all the Colonies to be convened at Philadelphia. Mandamus Counselors obliged to resign. Resolutions of the General Congress. Occasional Observations. The Massachusetts attentive to the military discipline of their youth. Suffolk Resolves. A Provincial Congress chosen in the Massachusetts. Governor Gage summons a new House of Representatives.
• Chapter 6 -- Parliamentary divisions on American affairs. Cursory observations and events. Measures for raising an army of observation by the four New England governments of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Battle of Lexington. Sketches of the conduct and characters of the governors of the southern provinces. Ticonderoga taken. Arrival of reinforcements from England. Proscription and characters of Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Battle of Bunker Hill.  Death and character of General Joseph Warren. Massachusetts adopts a stable form of government.
• Chapter 7 -- Continental Army. Mr. Washington appointed to the command. General Gage recalled, succeeded by Sir William Howe. Depredations on the sea coast. Falmouth burnt. Canadian affairs. Death and character of General Montgomery.
• Chapter 8 -- Dissensions in the British Parliament. Petition of Governor Penn rejected. Boston evacuated. Sir Henry Clinton sent to the southward., followed by General Lee. His character. Sir Peter Parker's attack on Sullivan's Island. General Howe's Arrival at Sandy Hook. General Washington leaves Cambridge. Observations on the temper of some of the colonies.
• Chapter 9 -- Declaration of Independence. Lord Howe's arrival in America. Action on Long Island. Retreat of the Americans through the Jerseys and the loss of Forts Washington and Lee. Affairs in Canada. Surprise of the Hessians at Trenton. Various transactions in the Jerseys. General Howe's retreat. Makes headquarters at Brunswick. His indecisions. Some traits of his character.
• Chapter 10 -- Desultory circumstances. Skirmishes and events. General Howe withdraws from the Jerseys. Arrives at the River Elk. Followed by Washington. The Battle of Brandywine. General Washington defeated, retreats to Philadelphia. Obliged to draw of his army. Lord Cornwallis takes possession of the city. Action at Germantown, Red Bank, etc. The British Army take winter quarters in Philadelphia. The Americans encamp at Valley Forge. General Washington's situation not eligible. De Lisle's letters. General Conway resigns. The Baron de Steuben appointed Inspector General of the American army.
• Volume 2 -- from Saratoga in 1778 to the eve of Yorktown in 1781
• Chapter 11 -- Northern Department. General Carleton superseded. General Burgoyne vested with the command for operations in Canada. Ticonderoga abandoned by General St. Clair. Affair of Fort Stanwix. Of Bennington and various other important movements of the two armies, until the Convention of Saratoga. General Burgoyne repairs to England on parole. His reception there. Reflections and observations on the events of the Northern Campaign
• Chapter 12 -- Observations on the conduct of the British Parliament, previous to the capture of Burgoyne. The ineffectual efforts of the commissioners sent to America in consequence of Lord North's Conciliatory Bill.  Their attempts to corrupt individuals and public bodies. Negotiation broken off.  Manifesto published by the commissioners. Counter Declaration by Congress. Sir William Howe repairs to England
• Chapter 13 -- Evacuation of Philadelphia. Battle of Monmouth. General Lee censured. General Clinton reaches New York. The Count de Estaing arrives there. Repairs to Rhode Island. Expedition unsuccessful. French Fleet rendezvous at Boston to refit after damages sustained by a storm. Lord Howe leave the American Seas. Marauding exploits of General Grey. Destruction of Wyoming. Expedition into the Indian Territories.
• Chapter 14 -- Foreign negotiations. Dissensions among the American commissioners. Deane recalled. Mr. Adams appointed. Mr. Lee and Mr. Adams recalled. Spain declares war against England. Mr. Jay sent to the Court of Madrid. Sir George Collier's expedition to Virginia. His sudden recall.  Ravages on the North River.  Depredations in the state of Connecticut, in aid of Governor Tryon and his partisans. General Washington seizes Stoney Point. Recovered by the British. Penobscot expedition. Destruction of the American navy.
• Chapter 15 -- A retrospect of some naval transactions in the West Indies 1778 and 1779. Affairs in Georgia concisely reviewed. General Lincoln sent to take the command at the southward.  The Count de Estaing's arrival in Georgia. Savannah closely besieged by the combined forces of France and America. Repulsed by General Prescott. The Count of Estaing leaves the southern clime.  The Count Pulaski slain in Georgia. Some anecdotes of Count Kosciusko.
• Chapter 16 -- Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot sail for South Carolina. Charleston invested. Capitulates. General Lincoln and his army prisoners of war. General Clinton returns to New York. Lord Cornwallis's command and civil administration in Charleston. Mr. Gadsden an other gentlemen suspected and sent to St. Augustine. Much opposition to British authority in both the Carolinas. The Count de Rochambeau and the Admiral de Tiernay arrived at Newport. British depredations in the Jerseys. Catastrophe of Mr. Caldwell and his family. Armed neutrality. Some observations on the state of Ireland. Riots in England. Cursory observations.
• Chapter 17 --Distressed situation of the army and the country from various causes. General Gates sent to the southward. Surprised and defeated at Camden by Lord Cornwallis. Superseded. General Greene appointed to the command in the Carolinas. Major Ferguson's defeat. Sir Henry Clinton makes a diversion in the Chesapeake in favor of Lord Cornwallis. General Arnold sent there. His defection and character. Detection, trial, and death of Major Andre. Disposition of the Dutch Republic with regard to America. Governor Trumbull's character and correspondence with Baron Van de Capellen. Mr. Laurens appointed to negotiate with the Dutch Republic.
• Chapter 18 -- Revolt of the Pennsylvania line. Discontents in other parts of the army Paper medium sunk. Some active movements of Don Bernard de Galvez in America. War between Great Britain and Spain opened in Europe by the siege of Gibraltar. Short view of diplomatic transactions between America and several European powers.  Empress of Russia refuses to treat with the American States.
• Chapter 19 -- General Gates surrenders the command of the southern army to General Greene, on his arrival in South Carolina. Action between General Sumpter and Colonel Tarleton. General Morgan's expedition. Meet and defeats Colonel Tarleton. Lord Cornwallis pursues General Morgan. Party of Americans cut off at the Catawba. Lord Cornwallis arrives at Hillsborough. Calls by proclamation on all the inhabitants of the state to join him. Battle of Guilford. Americans defeated. Lord Cornwallis marches towards Wilmington. General Greene pursues him. General Greene returns towards Camden. Action at Camden. Lord Rawdon evacuates Camden and returns to Charleston. Barbarous state of society among the mountaineers, and in the back settlements of the Carolinas.  Attack on Ninety-Six. Repulse.  General Greene again obliged to retreat. Execution of Colonel Hayne. Lord Rawdon leaves the state of South Carolina and embarks for England. Action at the Eutaw Springs. General Greene retires to the high hills of Santee.  Governor Rutledge returns to South Carolina and resumes the reins of government.
• Chapter 20 -- Lord Cornwallis marches to Wilmington. Marquis de la Fayette sent to Virginia. Death of General Phillips. Lord Cornwallis moves from Petersburg to Williamsburg. Dissonant opinions between him and Sir Henry Clinton. Crosses James River.  Takes post at Portsmouth. Indecision of Sir Henry Clinton. Meditates an attack on Philadelphia. The project relinquished.
• Volume 3 -- from Yorktown in 1781 to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, plus a few subsequent events and observations about the Constitution (1787), the French Revolution (1789), and the presidencies of Washington and Adams (up to 1801)
• Chapter 21 -- A first view of the forces of the contending parties. The Generals Washington and Rochambeau meet at Weathersfield. Attack on New York contemplated. The design relinquished. Combined armies march toward Virginia. Count de Grasse arrives in the Chesapeake. Sir Samuel Hood arrives at New York. Sails to the Chesapeake. Naval action. Lord Cornwallis attempts a retreat. Disappointed. Offers terms of capitulation. Terms of surrender agreed on. Lord Digby and Sir Henry Clinton arrive too late. Comparative view of the British commanders. General exchange of prisoners.
• Chapter 22 -- General Wayne sent to the south. Embarrassments of General Greene in that quarter. Recovery of Georgia and evacuation of Savannah by the British. Death and character of Colonel Laurens. Character of General Greene. Consequent observations.
• Chapter 23 -- General observations on the conduct of the British King and Parliament after the intelligence of the capture of Lord Cornwallis and his army. King's speech. Address of thanks opposed. Proposition by Sir Thomas Pitt to withhold supplies from the Crown. Vote carried in favor of granting supplies. General Burgoyne defends the American opposition to the measures of the Court. Variety of desultory circumstances discussed in Parliament.
• Chapter 24 -- Naval transactions. Rupture between England and France opened in the Bay of Biscay. Admiral Keppel. Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough captured by Paul Jones. The protection given him by the States-General resented by the British Court. Transactions in the West Indies. Sir George Bridges Rodney returns to England after the capture of St. Eustatia. Sent out again the succeeding year. Engages an defeats the French squadron under the command of the Count de Grasse. Capture of the Ville de Paris. The Count de Grasse sent to England. Admiral Rodney created a peer of the realm on his return to England.
• Chapter 25 -- Continuation of naval rencounters. Affair of Count Byland. Sir Hyde Parker and Admiral Zeutman. Commodore Johnstone ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. Admiral Kempenfelt. Loss of the Royal George. Baron de Rullincort's expedition to the Isle of Jersey. Capture of Minorca. Gibraltar again besieged, defended, and relieved.  Mr. Adams's negotiations with the Dutch provinces.
• Chapter 26 -- General uneasiness with ministerial measures in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Loud complaints against the Board of Admiralty. Sir Hyde Parker resigns his commission. Motion for an address for peace by General Conway. Resignation of Lord George Germaine. Created a peer of the realm. Lord North resigns. Some traits of his character. Petition of the city of London for peace. Coalition of parties. A new ministry. Death and character of the Marquis of Rockingham. Lord Shelburne's administration. Negotiations for peace. Provisional articles signed. Temper of the loyalists. Execution of Captain Huddy. Consequent imprisonment of Captain Asgill. Asgill's release.
• Chapter 27 -- Discontents with the provisional articles. Mr. Hartley sent to Paris. The definitive treaty agreed to and signed by all parties. A general pacification among the nations at war. Mr. Pitt, Prime Minister in England. His attention to East India affairs. Some subsequent observations.
• Chapter 28 -- Peace proclaimed in America. General Carleton delays the withdraw of the the troops from New York. Situation of the loyalists. Efforts in their favor by some gentlemen in Parliament. Their final destination. Their dissatisfaction and subsequent conduct.
• Chapter 29 -- Conduct of the American army on the news of peace. Mutiny and insurrection. Congress surrounded by a part of the American army. Mutineers disperse. Congress removes to Princeton. Order of Cincinnati. Observations thereon.
• Chapter 30 -- A survey of the situation of America on the conclusion of the war with Britain. Observations on the Declaration of Independence. Withdraw of the British troops from New York. A few observations on the detention of the western posts. The American army disbanded, after the commander in chief had addressed the public and taken leave of his fellow soldiers. General Washington resigns his commission to Congress.
• Chapter 31 --Supplementary observations on succeeding events, after the termination of the American Revolution. Insurrection in the Massachusetts. A general convention of the states. A new Constitution adopted. General Washington chosen President. British treaty negotiated by Mr. Jay. General Washington's second retreat from public life. General observations

Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to John Wheatley of Boston (1753-1784), bio at Wikipedia

• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Boston, 1773

Mrs. Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824-1906), bio at Wikipedia

• Faith Gartney's Girlhood

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), bio at Wikipedia

• Anti-Slavery Poems
• The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 (story)
• Margaret Smith's Journal 1678-9 Tales and Sketches
• Narrative and Legendary Poems
• Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
• Personal Poems
• Poems of NatureYankee Gypsies (story)
• about Whittier
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)