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Title: James Fenimore Cooper
American Men of Letters

Author: Thomas R. Lounsbury

Release Date: October 4, 2006 [EBook #19463]

Language: English

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AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS.

Edited By

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

[Illustration: J. Fenimore Cooper]

AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS.

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.

By

THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY,
Professor Of English In The Sheffield Scientific School,
Yale College.

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1884.

Copyright, 1882,
By THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge_:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

PREFATORY NOTE.

When Cooper lay on his death-bed he enjoined his family to permit no
authorized account of his life to be prepared. A wish even, that was
uttered at such a time, would have had the weight of a command; and
from that day to this pious affection has carried out in the spirit as
well as to the letter the desire of the dying man. No biography of
Cooper has, in consequence, ever appeared. Nor is it unjust to say
that the sketches of his career, which are found