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EARLY RECOLLECTIONS BY WM. C. HOYT
June 7th, 1873
There, too, on that lovely island he wrote many of those beautiful and happifying epistles to his distant friends.
And, now, indulgent reader, I will invite you to go with me and visit the interior of his house, and pay our respects to our distinguished friend in his own sanctum. There he is sitting in his library, where there are many rare and valuable curiosities. There are hanging upon the walls splendid pictures
from the hands of the old celebrated masters. There is AEtna, and Vesuvius, and the "Sunset. " He bought no pictures but such as his own eyes had previously seen the subject, so that he might know that he had a true and correct representation of the object. In his library are choice selections from the old and. new world. But there is one book that requires a descriptive notice. It is a part of the Holy Bible, and supposed to be five hundred years old. If that is correct then it would be about one hundred years older than the art of printing. That good old relic of past ages was in size about like our 8vo. The binding was good, strong leather, much resembling calf. It was between two and three inches thick. The leaves were of parchment instead of paper. The letters, which had been formed with a pen, were in style much like the German text, and some larger than the two-line great primer.
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