THE REMAINS OF NATHANIEL APPLETON HAVEN. WITH A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE, BY GEORGE TICKNOR. SECOND EDITION. BOSTON: HILLIARD, GRAY, LITTLE, AND WILKINS. AL 1728.7.62 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: District Clerk's Office. BE it remembered, that on the twenty-second day of October, A. D. 1828, and in the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "The Remains of Nathaniel Appleton Haven. With a Memoir of his Life, by George Ticknor." In conformity to an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: то THE EARLY, UNIFORM, AND IMPORTANT FRIEND OF MR. HAVEN, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. ADVERTISEMENT. A VOLUME, entitled "The Remains of Nathaniel Appleton Haven," was printed some months since. It was not published. The few copies of it, however, that were struck off as a memorial of him for his private friends, have been widely circulated and much sought after; and those who prepared it have been earnestly solicited by persons, whose opinion the whole community is accustomed to respect, to permit it to be published in a form, which shall make it generally accessible and useful. They have for some time doubted, whether they should yield to this request. They shrink, as he would have done, from any thing like display. They prepared the volume originally only for his personal friends, and it contains some things not suited perhaps to a wider circulation. These have been their objections. But, on the other hand, reasons have been urged on them for its publication, which it is not necessary to repeat, but which they have not felt themselves authorized to resist. They have therefore consented, omitting some portions not interesting to the public, and devoting whatever of pecuniary advantage may be derived from it, to one of the institutions b |