American Men of Letters.
edited by
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
American Men of Letters.
NOAH WEBSTER.
by
HORACE E. SCUDDER.
BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
NEW YORK: 11 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1890.
Copyright, 1881,
By HORACE E. SCUDDER.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Early Life | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Grammatical Institute | 33 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Author and Publisher | 52 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Political Writings | 111 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Excursions | 150 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Preparations for the Dictionary | 182 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| An American Dictionary of the English Language | 235 |
| CHAPTER VIII.[Pg vi] | |
| Conclusion | 277 |
Acknowledgment is due to Mr. Gordon L. Ford, of Brooklyn,N. Y., for the valuable assistance which he has renderedby permitting the author to make use of his admirable collectionof printed and manuscript mat
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