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William Hickling Prescott
Birth: 5-4-1796
Death: 1-28-1859
Biography
Harvard graduate. American historian; especially interested in Mexican, Spanish, and South American history. Correspondent with notable writers, including Charles Dickens. Frances "Fanny" Seward references seeing his Carte de Visite at Brady's Studio in Washington, DC in her 1860 diary.
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Biography:
Harvard graduate. American historian; especially interested in Mexican, Spanish, and South American history. Correspondent with notable writers, including Charles Dickens. Frances "Fanny" Seward references seeing his Carte de Visite at Brady's Studio in Washington, DC in her 1860 diary.
Citation for Birth Info:
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Book or Book Chapter
Book or Monograph Title:
1911 Encylopedia Britannica, Vol. 22
Year:
1911
Citation Notes:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Prescott,_William_Hickling
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Website
Citation URL:
https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0222
Title of Webpage:
William H. Prescott Papers - Massachusetts Historical Society
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