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Contents of Letters include, but not limited to: Travelling to America on The Mauretania, New York, Washington, The Senate, The Library of Congress, The White House, Literary Tastes, Newspapers, "Nervous prostration at forty", American thoughts on Canada, American thoughts on South American Republics, European news, England, "They bring us brains, physique, and dollars", Arlington, Causes of the Civil War, Liberty and Union, The Washington Monument, Millionaires and pensions, American Socialism, Commerce, A greater South, Baltimore, the John Hopkins School of Medicine, Celebrated professors, A Lady Professor, Jews of America, Philadelphia, German Town, The first Bible printed in America, Atlantic City, First Protest against slavery made in German Town, Sermons and Socialism, Trade University, Chicago, The National Flag, Jewish population in Chicago, Commercial Interests, English faith in Borax, From Italy to Chicago, Illinois, The first coal discovered, Corn-belt, Germans the best farmers, Schools of Agriculture, Chicago University, Fire of 1871, Gary, White Slaves in Chicago, The Hudson, Albany, The General Electric Company, The American Locomotive Company, Lake George, 'The Last of the Mohicans', The Siege of Fort William Henry, Glens Falls, English sparrows, Hewlett's Landing, Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga, The Monte Carlo of America, Electricity takes the place of steam, The Birmingham of America, Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Technical Schools, Marietta, Mortality among Americans, Cooking, Chewing-gum, Banks, Where Tocqueville placed the American aristocracy, Pennsylvania railroad, Frame-houses, John D. Rockefeller, Wealth versus Birth, Education, Newspapers, Changes likely to come over the English language, The Americanisation of England, Climate, The Black Population, Cotton, Negro suffrage, Unfriendly feeling towards England attributed to the Irish, The Genuine American. --- Original dark blue cloth boards, lettered gilt on spine (22.5 cm height) dulled, very slight rubbing on joints. Fresh endpapers, previous owner's signature on flyleaf, some blue-pencilling, paper browning. Else very clean and sound copy. Pp. xvi (+ii, References, verso blank) 364 with Books Referred To In The Letters. Thirty-Five Letters. First Letter dated 26th May, Last Letter dated 2nd November. Authors of Books Referred To: Philip Loring Allen, Charles S. Bernheimer (Ed.), Albert J. Beveridge, CLarence F. Birdseye, Nicholas Murray Butler, Price Collier, Lydia K. Commander, Alexander Frances, Ludwig Max Goldberger, Albert Bushnell Hart, Hamilton Holt (Ed.), Frederic C. Howe, Ingersoll, P. Leroy-Beaulieu, Charles E. Moran, Wilhelm von Plenz, Leon C. Prince, Charles B. Reynolds, Jacob A. Riis, H. Perry Robinson, L. E. Robinson (with Irving Moore), John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, J. Allen Smith, Booker Washington, Barrett Wendell. *Please be advised postage may be higher due to weight of this book*. Seller Inventory # 11049
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