Chronicle of the Coach. Charing Cross to Ilfracombe ... Illustrated by E. L. Chichester.
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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.
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Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website.
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Orations, addresses and speeches of Chauncey M. Depew;
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John Denison Champlin was an American editor and author. He worked in journalism and graphic arts.
Background
John Denison Champlin was born on January 29, 1834 at Newport, Rhode Island, United States. He was the son of John Denison and Sylvia (Bostwick) Champlin. The name Denison, borne by his father and himself, was derived from William Denison, of Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.
Education
He received his early education at the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Connecticut, whence he entered Yale College in 1852, graduating in 1856. With a strong leaning toward law, he began its study in the office of Gideon H. Hollister at Litchfield, Connecticut, where in 1859 he was admitted to the bar.
Career
After practising for a time in Milwaukee, he became a member of the law firm of Hollister, Cross, & Champlin in New York City, whither Hollister had removed. Champlin's literary interests were, however, already gaining the ascendency, and he collaborated in the writing of a tragedy, Thomas . .. Becket (1866), produced by Edwin Booth in New Orleans in 1861. After a period of free-lancing, in 1864 he became associate editor of the Bridgeport Evening Standard. Finding himself hampered in his work by his associates, he decided to remove to Litchfield, and start a paper of his own. So in 1865 he established the Litchfield Sentinel, a weekly newspaper devoted to Democratic interests. After four years, he sold this paper in order to remove to New York and engage in other literary enterprises. From the Journal of J. F. Loubart, he wrote a Narrative of the Mission to Russia, in 1866, of the Honorable Gustavus Vasa Fox, which occupied him during the years 1872-73. Between the years 1878 and 1881 he originated and edited a series of Young Folk's Cyclop'dias covering common things, persons and places, astronomy and history. Going to Europe in 1884, he accompanied Andrew Carnegie on a coaching trip along the south coast of England, and this he described in his Chronicle of the Coach (1886). In conjunction with Arthur E. Bostwick, he published the Young Folk's Cyclopedia of Games and Sports in 1890. As an editor of books he was first engaged by Charles Scribner's Sons, producing for that firm the Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (1886 - 87) and the Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1888 - 90). He then joined the editorial staff of the Standard Dictionary (1892 - 94). In 1901 he added to the Young Folk's Cyclop'dia series a volume on Literature and Art, and in 1905 one on Natural History. In 1910 he edited the Orations, Addresses, and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew. His "One Hundred Allied Families of the Seventeenth Century in England and New England, " and "Anne Hutchinson: Her Life, Her Ancestry and Her Descendants, " both written in 1912, remained unpublished.