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The Riverside Biographical Series

NUMBER 12

PAUL JONES

BY

HUTCHINS HAPGOOD

 

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PAUL JONES

 

BY

HUTCHINS HAPGOOD

 

 

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901

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COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HUTCHINS HAPGOOD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published November, 1901

 

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PREFACE

The amount of material bearing on Paul Jones is very large, and consistsmainly of his extensive correspondence, published and unpublished, hisjournals, memoirs by his private secretary and several of his officers,published and unpublished impressions by his contemporaries, and anumber of sketches and biographies, some of which contain richcollections of his letters and extracts from his journals. Thebiographies which I have found most useful are the "Life," by John HenrySherburne, published in 1825, which is mainly a collection of Jones'scorrespondence; another volume, composed largely of extracts from hisletters and journals, called the "Janette-Taylor Collection," publishedin 1830; the first and only extended narrative at once readable andimpartial, by Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, published in 1845; and therecently published "Life" by [Pg vi]Augustus C. Buell. To Mr. Buell'sexhaustive work I am indebted for considerable original material nototherwise accessible to me. On the basis of the foregoing mass ofmaterial I have attempted, in a short sketch, to give merely an unbiasedaccount of the man.

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