Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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are the smaller portraits of Lord Thurlow, and Bishop Mc-llvainc, and on the other those of Bishop Purcell, and Charles Dickens inhis study. The life-size portrait of William H. Seward, and one of Mr.Weed himself, hang upon the walls. There are smaller portraits, en-gravings, or photographs of Henry Clay, Sir Henry Holland, GeneralScott, De Witt Clinton, Governor Marcy, General Dix, Daniel Webster,George Pcabody, Anson Burlingame, William M. Evarts, Hamilton Fish,Horatio Seymour, Preston King, President Taylor, President Arthur,President Lincoln, and many other celebrities. In a frame is a dinnerinvitation to Mr. Weed from Governor De Witt Clinton in 1825. Allthese portraits and pictures hang in the same places on the walls as in Mr.Weeds lifetime. The book-cases contain, it is thought, the finest privatecollection of autograph letters in this country. These letters are chrono-logically arranged, and well bound in substantial volumes, including the THURLOW WEEDS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY
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8 THURLOW WEEDS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY correspondence of nearly all the men of eminence in politics, religion,charity, science and letters, who have lived and had their day since 1825,together with autograph letters from most of the Presidents of the UnitedStates since the time of Madison, and from very many of the statesmen ofGreat Britain. They are all addressed to Thurlow Weed. The letters ofSecretary Seward alone fill several volumes, covering the three or four dec-ades of his public life. Letters of l)e Witt Clinton, Henry Clay, DanielWebster, and Horace Greeley, are numerous and characteristic. Such amass of private history, embracing a period so full of startling events, soracy and sensational, could hardly exist elsewhere. President Lincolnsletters are perhaps the most thrilling and magnetic, so to speak, of any inthis unparalleled collection of treasures. He wrote when he had somethingof the first importance to say, not infrequently in strictest confidence, andexpressed himsel

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