Excerpt from Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions, From 1869 to 1879

A single page, or even a Single paragraph, may some times suffice to supply a date, recall a name, or prolong a memory, not within ready recollection or easy research. Meantime, my duties as President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, have given me occasion, more Often than could have been wished, for Notices of men whose lives and deaths were of public and permanent interest.

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