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Peal accession no. 9657. Original manuscript letters are bound in this volume, primarily in the final section of the book.
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A BIOGRAPHY
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TO THE HARVARD MUSICAL ASSOCIATION,

WITH WHICH THE SUBJECT OF THIS BIOGRAPHY \VAS INTIMATELY
CONNECTED, FROM THE DAY OF ITS INCEPTION UNTIL HIS DEATH,
SERVING IT IN EVERY OFFICIAL CAPACITY, BEING ITS PRESIDENT
FOR TWENTY YEARS, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
WITH THE HOPE THAT IT MAY HELP TO INDICATE HOW INTI-
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CONTENTS.

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I. ANCESTRY, YOUTH, AND COLLEGE LIFE . I

II. PREACHING AND TRANSLATING . . . . . 11
III. AT NORTHAMPTON. . . . . . . . . 31
IV. BROOK FARM. . . . . . . . . . . 48
V. A TIME OF EXPERIMENTS . . . . . . 129
VI. “DWIGHT’S JOURNAL OF MUSIC” . . . 146
VII. A YEAR IN EUROPE . . . . . . . . I68
VIII. YEARS OF TOIL FOR MUSIC . . . . . 186
IX. THE AUTOCRAT OF MUSIC . . . . . . 214
X. THE SATURDAY CLUB . . . . . . . 23'7
XI. PERSONAL TRAITS . . . . . . . . . 265

THE CLOSING YEARS .

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

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