Old portraits and modern sketches
Subtitle: Personal sketches and tributes ; Historical papers
By: by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Series: Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier in seven volumes, Riverside ed -- v. VI
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Other titles: Personal sketches and tributes.; Historical papers.
Table of contents: title: Old portraits & modern sketches; John Bunyan; Thomas Ellwood; James Nayler; Andrew Marvell; John Roberts; Samuel Hopkins; Richard Baxter; William Leggett; Nathaniel Peabody Rogers; Robert Dinsmore; Placido, the slave poet; Personal sketches & tributes; The funeral of Torrey; Edward Everett; Lewis Tappan; Bayard Taylor; William Ellery Channing; Death of President Garfield; Lydia Maria Child; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Longfellow; Old Newbury; Schoolday remembrances; Edwin Percy Whipple; Historical papers; Daniel O'Connel; England under James II; The border war of 1708; The great Ipswich fright; Pope night; The boy captives; The black men in the revolution & war of 1812; The Scottish reformers; The Pilgrims of Plymouth; Governor Endicott; John Winthrop.