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From the Easy Chair Vol. 3

by George William CURTIS (1824 - 1892)

Hawthorne and Brook Farm

The third volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over the choice of presidential candidate. He was an original member of the New York Board of Education. ( Lynne Thompson)

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Listen next episodes of From the Easy Chair Vol. 3:
April 1865 , Autumn Days , Beecher in his Pulpit After the Death of Lincoln , Bicycle Riding for Children , Cheapening his Name , Church Street , Clergymen's Salaries , From Como to Milan During the War of 1848 , Herbert Spencer on the Yankee , Historic Buildings , Honor , Joseph Wesley Harper , Killing Deer , Mr. Tibbins's New-Year Call , Public Benefactors , Reception to the Japanese Ambassadors at the White House , Reform Charity , Review of Union Troops, 1865 , The Boston Music Hall , The Dead Bird Upon Cyrilla's Hat an Encouragement of 'Slarter' , The Departure of the Great Eastern , The Maid and the Wit , The New England Sabbath , The Reunion of Anti-Slavery Veterans, 1884 , Washington in 1867