Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-22

| /. BREMER Life, Letters and Posthumous Works
Of Frcdrilta Iircnirr Edited by her sister, Charlotte
| Brcmrr Translated from the Swedish by Freia Mi.
low. In one vol, crown SyO. Cloth, 81.
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hat we have no room for further quotations, but it s
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lest chidhood and may be said to trace the history
her mind '-IHHufeilhia Pres.
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iylO32 Nesg York Tribune