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The Biglow Papers, by James Russell Lowell
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Title: The Biglow Papers
Author: James Russell Lowell
Editor: Thomas Hughes
Release Date: September 20, 2007 [EBook #22680]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE
BIGLOW PAPERS.
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
NEWLY EDITED, WITH A PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR OF "TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL-DAYS."
THIRD ENGLISH EDITION.
Reprinted, with the Author's Sanction, from the Last American Edition.
LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO. 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1861.
Transcriber's Note
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained.
Greek words have been transliterated and are shown between {braces}.
The carat symbol [^] has been used to note 'superscript', and three asterisks [***] represent an inverted asterism. The following less common characters have been transcribed as follows:
[)a] a with breve [=a] a with macron [oe] oe ligature
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