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Title: Something of Men I Have Known
With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective

Author: Adlai E. Stevenson

Release Date: November 9, 2006 [eBook #19745]
[Last updated on May 30, 2007]

Language: English

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"Tombs", "McDougall", and "Breckenridge" has been retained.

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SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN

With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and
Retrospective

by

ADLAI E. STEVENSON

Fully Illustrated

Second Edition

[Frontispiece]

[Publisher's logo]

Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1909

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1909
Published October, 1909
Second Edition, December 17, 1909
The Lakeside Press
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Chicago

TO MY WIFE
Letitia Green Stevenson
THE PATIENT LISTENER TO THESE
"TWICE-TOLD TALES"

FOREWORD

To write in the spirit of candor of men he has known, and of great
events in which he has himself borne no inconspicuous part, has
been thought not an unworthy task for the closing years of more
than one of the most eminent of our public men. It may be that
the labor