Pearse Cranch, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Annie Adams Fields, Louise Imogen Guiney, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Thomas William Parsons, John James Piatt, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Hiram Rich, Edward Rowland Sill, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Bayard Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, Maurice Thompson, John Greenleaf Whittier, George Edward Woodberry.
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D. Appleton & Co.: Fitz-Greene Halleck, William Cullen Bryant.
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Roberts Brothers: Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Louise Chandler Moulton.
Copeland & Day: John Banister Tabb, Richard Hovey.
W.A. Pond & Co.: Stephen Collins Foster.
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(Sequential.)
"My Life is Like the Summer Rose."
"O Fairest of the Rural Maids!"
