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CONTENTS.

��INTRODUCTION: THE RANDALL FAMILY.

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Part I. The "Consolations of Solitude," 1856 . . 9

II. The Randall Genealogy 39

III. Randall and his Early Friends .... 46

IV. A Boy's First Impressions of Randall . 68 V. A Boy's Journals 72

VI. Randall's Letters 99

VII. Brother and Sister in Old Age .... 193

VIII. The Great Use of a Great Fortune . . 208

IX. Randall's Death 216

X. Randall's Message to the World . . . 220

��CONSOLATIONS OF SOLITUDE.

Original Title-page (facsimile) , 231

Original Inscription 233

Original Introduction

Author to his Book in Early Spring 235

To the Reader 236

Original Index {unchanged).

»^*The brace connects the titles of certain poems placed side by side on account either of resemblance or contrast.

Dedication 237

Ode to God 239

Philosopher in Search of a Religion 243

( Dying Vision of Benedict Arnold 248

( Last Moments of Nathan Hale 253

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