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This 15th volume of "Studies" continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of scholarly articles. The essays and their authors are: "The record of a friendship: the letters of Convers Francis to Frederic Henry Hedge in Bangor and Providence, 1835-1850", by Guy R. Woodsall; "Margaret Fuller as a teacher in Providence: the school journal of Ann Brown", by Laraine R. Fergenson; "Feminist of the "tribune": Margaret Fuller as professional writer", by Paula Kopacz; "New letters of Gansevoort Melville: 1845-1846", by Janet Galligani Casey; "'The living writers of America': a manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe", by Burton R. Pollin; "Hawthorne, the tories and Benjamin Lynde Oliver", by Margaret B. Moore; "Inscribing paternity: Nathaniel Hawthorne as 19th century father", by Leland S. Person, Jr.; "Hawthorne's last day at the consulate: 'to think of doing good'", by Bill Ellis; "The selected letters of William Ellery Channing the youngster (part three)", by Francis B. Dedmond; "'Affording the rising generation an adequate notion': Walt Whitman in 19th-century textbooks, handbooks and anthologies", by Ed Folsom; "The no name series, with a bibliography", by Madeleine B.Stern and Daniel Shealy; and an annotated list of the year's book publications, by Alfred G. Litton. |