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Title: Charles Carleton Coffin
War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman

Author: William Elliot Griffis

Release Date: August 4, 2007 [EBook #22238]

Language: English

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[Illustration: C. Carleton Coffin.]

Charles Carleton Coffin

_War Correspondent, Traveller,
Author, and Statesman_

By

William Elliot Griffis, D. D.

Author of "Matthew Calbraith Perry,"
"Sir William Johnson," and
"Townsend Harris, First American Envoy to Japan."

Boston
Estes and Lauriat
1898

_Copyright, 1898_
By Sallie R. Coffin

_Colonial Press.
Electrotyped and Printed by
C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A._

Dedicated to
The Generation of Young People whom
Carleton
Helped to Educate for American Citizenship.

Preface

Among the million or more readers of "Carleton's" books, are some who
will enjoy knowing about him as boy and man. Between condensed
autobiography and biography, we have here, let us hope, a binocular,
which will yield to the eye a stereoscopic picture, having the
solidity and relief of ordinary vision.

Two facts may make one preface. Mrs. Coffin requested me, in a letter
dated May 10, 1896, to outline the life and work of her late husband.
"Because," said she, "you write in a condensed way that would please
Mr. C