From Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes, Historical Papers
Inscribed as follows, when first collected in book-form:--
To Dr. G. BAILEY, of the National Era, Washington, D. C., these
sketches, many of which originally appeared in the columns of the
paper under his editorial supervision, are, in their present form,
offered as a token of the esteem and confidence which years of
political and literary communion have justified and confirmed, on
the part of his friend and associate,
THE AUTHOR.
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