HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
MAR 5 1941

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1854,

BY CHARLES GAYARRÉ,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District

of New York.

R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER,

53 VESEY STREET, N. Y.

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то

GEORGE BANCROFT,

The Friend

WHO ENCOURAGED HIS LABORS, AND

The Historian

WHOSE FAME IS THE PRIDE OF HIS COUNTRY,

THIS WORK

IS GRATEFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHOR.