Supplement to the Cyclopędia of American Literature: Including Obituaries of Authors, Continuations of Former Articles, with Notices of Earlier and Later Writers Omitted in Previous Editions |
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| Title | Supplement to the Cyclopędia of American Literature: Including Obituaries of Authors, Continuations of Former Articles, with Notices of Earlier and Later Writers Omitted in Previous Editions |
| Author | Evert Augustus Duyckinck |
| Publisher | C. Scribner and Company, 1866 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 162 pages |
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