Homes of American authors
Subtitle: comprising anecdotical, personal, and descriptive sketches, by various writers ...
Publisher: G. P. Putnam and co.; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1853
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- United States; Literary landmarks -- United States; United States -- Intellectual life
Notes: By G. W. Curtis, H. T. Tuckerman, G. W. Greene, C. F. Briggs, G. S. Hillard, W. C. Bryant, G. W. Peck, R. W. Griswold, P. Godwin, E. E. Hale, Mrs. C. M. Kirkland.
Added t.-p., engraved; part of the illustrations are colored.
Many of these papers were reprinted by G. P. Putnam's sons in 1896 under title "Little journeys to the homes of American authors.
Table of contents: title: John James Audubon.; title: James K. Paulding.; title: Washington Irving.; title: William Cullen Bryant.; title: George Bancroft.; title: Richard Henry Dana.; title: William H. Prescott.; title: Miss C. M. Sedgwick.; title: J. Fenimore Cooper.; title: Edward Everett.; title: Ralph Waldo Emerson.; title: William Gilmore Simms.; title: Henry W. Longfellow.; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne.; title: Daniel Webster.; title: John Pendleton Kennedy.; title: James Russell Lowell.