The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . Review. Andit may be added that the friendship of these two emi-nent litterateurs was always cordial from this was Hawthorne who suggested the writing ofEvangeline by the C
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . Review. Andit may be added that the friendship of these two emi-nent litterateurs was always cordial from this was Hawthorne who suggested the writing ofEvangeline by the Cambridge professor. In1836 Mr. Goodrich engaged Hawthorne to edit the American Magazine of Useful and EntertainingKnowledge, at a salary of $500 per year, which,however, was not fully paid; and Hawthorne alsowrote for the company which Mr, Goodrich man-aged a Universal History, for $100. This be-came the basis of Peter Parleys famous series ofhistorical and other books. In 1838 Hawthorne be-came engaged to Sophia Amelia Peabody, of Sa-lem, of whom, in writing to her sister, he says: She is a flower to be worn in no mans bosom,but was lent from heaven to show the possibili-ties of the human soul; and to whom he was mar-ried July 9, 1842, at Boston, Mass. At this periodhe naturally began to feel that his experiment ofseclusion from the world had gone forward longenough. Martin Van Buren was in the presidentisQ. ^f^^M ^ /^^ik^C^M^l^TUP OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.
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