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6,448 lives & letters

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Scraps of Biography

Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, July 1899

Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899

Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41

Reginald Lane Poole · biography

Secret Band of Brothers

J. H. Green · biography

Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess

Henry W. Fischer · biography

Seedtime in Kashmir: A Memoir of William Jackson Elmslie

William Jackson Elmslie · biography

Seekers after God

F. W. Farrar · biography

Seeking Fortune in America

F. W. Grey · biography