Newspaper clipping of a short article from the Boston Evening Post[?] describing the last hour of the historian William H. Prescott's death. Attention is given in the last paragraph to the expected fate of Prescott's works in progress.
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An hour before the fatal stroke, Rush Hawkins collection, Ms.2006.05, Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
This collection contains images of documents in the Rush Hawkins collection (Ms.2006.05) relating to the First Italian War of Independence. Annmary Brown Hawkins (1837-1903) was married to Rush Hawkins and she was the daughter of Nicholas Brown III (1792-1859). Nicholas …
