Excerpt from A History of the United States and Its People, Vol. 5 of 16: From Their Earliest Records to the Present TimeThis is the well-known Copley portrait, deposited by the city of Boston in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Reproduced in colors in close facsimile of the original painting.Autograph From an original letter in the New York Public Library (emmet Col lection).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.