PORTRAITS—Lorenzo Dow Thompson, Jonathan
Moore _Frontispiece_
SOME POPULAR MYTHS OF AMERICAN HISTORY THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, M.D. 61
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Account of Negro School-House Cost—Boston Committee of
Correspondence Notice—Delaware Pilot’s “Broadside”
EARLY MENTION OF EVENTS IN THE CHAMPLAIN
VALLEY DAVID S. KELLOGG, M.D. 77
LINCOLN (_Poem_) MARY ISABELLA FORSYTH 85
CAPTAIN LINCOLN _vs._ PRIVATE THOMPSON FRANK E. STEVENS 86
(Author of “The Black Hawk War”)
SIDE-LIGHTS ON CAROLINA HISTORY H. E. BELIN 91
INDIAN AGRICULTURE IN WISCONSIN BENJ. H. HIBBARD 97
THE AUTHENTICITY OF CARVER’S “TRAVELS” 105
OLD FORT GEORGE, NEW YORK CITY EDW. HAGAMAN HALL 107
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
(Sec’y Am. Scenic and Hist. Pres. Soc’y)
A War Letter of Walt Whitman 113
Letter of Lincoln Declining an Office 114
SOCIETIES—New York—Rhode Island 115
NOTES AND QUERIES 116
MINOR TOPICS 116
GENEALOGY 117
BOOK NOTICE 121
Copyright, 1905, by William Abbatt.
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