Chapter xix

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Wrote obituary poems--not published. Wrote first letters home.

1855-56. (See Chapters xx and xxi.)

First after-dinner speech; delivered at a printers' banquet in Keokuk, Iowa. Letters from Cincinnati, November 16, 1856, signed “Snodgrass”--Saturday Post (Keokuk).

1857. (See Chapter xxi .)

Letters from Cincinnati, March 16, 1857, signed “Snodgrass”--Saturday Post (Keokuk).

1858.

Anonymous contributions to the New Orleans Crescent and probably to St. Louis papers.

1859. (See