Cambridge Sketches

Frank Preston Stearns , the son of abolitionist George Luther Stearns, was a writer and abolitionist from Massachusetts during the 19th century. In addition to collaborating with Elizur Wright in ambitious abolitionist projects, such as the American Anti-Slavery Society, he is credited with several seminal works exploring the lives and careers of important American public figures and authors of note.

This is an essay book. This work gives the readers an elevated idea of human nature in the ordinary course of mundane affairs, and it is with the hope of transmitting this impression to readers. Some of them have a world-wide celebrity, and others who were distinguished in their own time seem likely now to be forgotten; but they all deserve well of the republic of humanity and of the age in which they lived.