Archive for September 2016
Seattle Prep Remarks
Simon & Schuster has asked me for a list of my speeches about Seward, which turns out to be a long list. While looking for them on my old computer, I came across these remarks at Seattle Prep in early 2014. I post them in case they might help others understand why and how I…
Read MoreJeremiah Black To the Public
I have just returned from Washington, from the Library of Congress, where I found many interesting and useful sources. What is sad is that, in most cases, I will be able to quote only a few words from these sources, not whole paragraphs. In an effort to right that wrong, I attach here my rough…
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I am making progress on Stanton. I now have 176,372 words written in 18 chapters. The book is supposed to be 200,000 words long, so that would suggest that I only have another 24,000 words to write. The reality is that I have more to do than that. This morning, for example, I am rewriting…
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