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_ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS_

_PRESCOTT_

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_ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS_

WILLIAM HICKLING
PRESCOTT

BY
HARRY THURSTON PECK

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1905

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1905,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1905.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


To
WILLIAM ARCHIBALD DUNNING
_AMICITIAE CAUSA_




PREFATORY NOTE


For the purely biographical portion of this book an especial
acknowledgment of obligation is due to the valuable collection of
Prescott's letters and memoranda made by his friend George Ticknor, and
published in 1864 as part of Ticknor's _Life of W. H. Prescott_. All
other available sources, however, have been explored, and are
specifically mentioned either in the text or in the footnotes.

H. T. P.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
March 