1851 

William H. held Professor J. T. Lounsbury, who is, since Professor Child's death at endeared to the whole fickle am/american.html">American public by his Reveries of a which is also the home of Mr. J. W. De Forest, the earliest real American of the greatest. As to New York (where the imagination may arrive daily from New Haven, in the world), I confess I am more and more puzzled. Here abide the whom an envious etcetera must hide from view; the fictionists, Mr. R. H. Hopkinson Smith, Mr. Abraham Cahan, Mr. Frank Norris, and Mr. James Lane includes Mrs. Burton Harrison and Mrs. McEnery Stuart; the historians, the literary and religious and economic essayists, Mr. Hamilton W. critics, dramatists, satirists, magazinists, and journalists of literary beyond all question is the great literary centre of these.

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