Concord: Historic, Literary and Picturesque (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Concord: Historic, Literary and PicturesqueThanks are due to George Parsons Lathrop and Mrs. Rose Haw thorne Lathrop for accounts of Mr. Hawthorne's home, to Miss Munroe for her Memoir of the Founder of the Library, to Mrs. W. S. Robinson for her Memoir of Warrington, to Mr. A. Munroe for the history of the Library, and the Water Supply, to Mr. S. R. Bartlett for the sketch of Daniel Chester French.Full credit also should be given to Rev. G. Reynolds, and to F. B. Sanborn, Esq., for quotations from their writings, as well as to Shattuck's History, the Diary of Rev. Wm. Emerson, and the Pamphlets of Rev. Dr. Ripley and others. All the verse in the volume, with the exception of Mr. Sanborn's Ode in the first chap ter, was written by the author of this book.The success which this book has met with abroad and at home has encouraged its author to write it up to the present time, and to give plain directions by which the tourist can easily find his way to the various objects of interest which have been already described at length.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.