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Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography, Portraits Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Fry and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e will from the Club-room, whichClyde, innocent of the great ofl^ence,adojated; and then turns ujDon the un-reflecting with a lesson of charity—that charity which he ever loved toinculcate. While engaged in theseliterary works, and busily employedupon a new serial story for TheCornhill, Thackeray, who had forseveral years suffered occasionally fromdisease, was suddenly called away, theimmediate cause of his death beiua- aneffusion on the brain. He had retiredto rest as usual, at his home in Lon-don, on the night of Christmas Eve,18G3, and was found at day, lyingwith life extinct, in an attitude of calmrepose. A few days afterwards hisremains Avere interred in the ruralKensal Green Cemetery, followed tothe grave by the chief men of lettersand artists of the metropolis, who lov-ed and admired the man. Among thenumber were Charles Dickens, Antho-ny Trollope, tlie poet Browning; and,with other artists, his life-long friendGeorge Cruikshank, and his later asso-ciate in Punch, John Leech.
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ALICE CARY

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