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Writers on American History 499 Sparks, Jared. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. Vol. I, Boston, 1830. [Sparks sold his half interest in this work at the end of a year, but his successors carried it forward until 1861.] [Editor.] Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution. 12 vols. Boston, 1829-30, 1854. Life of Gouverneur Morris, with Selections from his Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers. 3 vols. Boston, 1832. French, with many omis- sions, by Gandais, 2 vols., Paris, 1841. A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Boston, 1833; London, 1833. The Life and Writings of George Washington. 12 vols., Boston, 1834-37; Boston, 1837, 1842. German, condensed by von Raumer, F., 2 vols., Leip- sic, 1839. English ed. as Personal Memoirs, Diaries of George Washington, 2 vols., London, 1839, 1842. French, prepared by Guizot, 6 vols., Paris, 1839-40. Life of George Washington. Boston, 1839, 1853, 1854, 1855. [Vol. I of the Life and Writings.] Abridged ed., 2 vols., Boston, 1842. The Works of Benjamin Franklin; with Notes and a Life of the Author. 10 vols. Boston, 1836-40, 1850; new ed., Boston, 1856; Philadelphia, 1858. Lives of Eminent Individuals, celebrated in American History. 3 vols. Boston. [1839.] [From American Biography.] Correspondence of the American Revolution . . . Letters ... to George Washington. 4 vols. Boston, 1853. Library of American Biography. 25 vols, ist series, 10 vols., Boston, 1834- 38; 2d series, 15 vols., Boston, 1844-47. 25 vols., New York and Boston, 1864. [Lives written by Sparks: Ethan Allen, vol. i; Benedict Arnold, vol. 3; Marquette, vol. 10; La Salle, vol. 11 ; Count Pulaski, vol. 14; Jean Ribault, vol. 17; Charles Lee, vol. 18; John Ledyard, vol. 24. It is said that by 1853 the total sale of volumes was 100,000.] [Ed.] The Unitarian Miscellany. Baltimore, 1821-23. [Established to promote the spread of Unitarianism in the South. Sparks made it widely known, and some of his articles in it were copied in many quarters. A list is given in Adams, Sparks, 11, 601-4. The Miscellany was discontinued in 1824.] [Ed.] The North American Review. May, l8i7,toMay, 1818; Jan., l823,to Mar., 1830. [For a list of Sparks's articles, see Adams, Sparks, 11, 596-601.] Jared Sparks. In the National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. Philadelphia, 1856. Deane, W. R. Memoir of Jared Sparks. Historical Magazine, May, 1866, vol. X, 146-56. Mayer, Brantz. Memoir of Jared Sparks. Baltimore, 1867. Ellis, George E. Memoir of Jared Sparks. Cambridge, 1869. [Rptd. from Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc, May, 1868.] Adams, H. B. The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks. 2 vols. Boston, 1893. [Contains indispensable bibliography, with numerous items not listed here.] Bassett, John S. Middle Group of American Historians. 1917. Chap. 2.