How Long to Read Life of Edward Livingston

How Long Does it Take to Read Life of Edward Livingston?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 7 minutes to read Life of Edward Livingston by Charles Havens Hunt

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Life Of Edward Livingston. PREFACE. HAVING been intrusted by the Editors of the New American Cyclopedia with the task of preparing the notices of Robert R. and Edward Livingston which appeared in that work, I conceived an unexpected interest in the career of the younger of these brothers, and resolved to write a more extended sketch of his life, such as the pubIic and common sources of information would enable me to do. In pursuance of that plan, a considerable part of the folIowing work was composed, including the chapters upon the Livingston genealogy, the first congressional career of Edward Livingston, his controversy with Jefferson, and his system of penal Iaw, which were finished in their present form. I was proceeding to fill up other parts of the outline, when an acquaintance which I formed with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Barron, the only survivors of Mr. Livingstons immediate family, led to my acquisition of the best materials for the remainder of the work. Besides taking the greatest pains to satisfy all my particular inquiries, they in the kindest manner, and without reserve or material restriction, placed in my hands the whole mass of papers left by Mr. Livingston at his death, a collection, it needs hardly be said, of great interest and value, as well for more general researches as for that to which my attention was devoted. In tIie use which has been made of these materials I have followed very strictly my own judgment and method, which was to confine myseIf to the presentation of such matter only as would place in the best and plainest light the genius and character of a man, an account of whose life, both full and concise, I thought our American biography not rich enough to well afford to dispense with. I have received valuable hints, pieces of information. or clues to information, from several other friendly hands. Among these I may mention by name the Iate Honorable Charles J. Ingersoll, the late HonorabIe Henry Carleton, both of whose communications, though given with true vivacity, were spoken from the very door of the tomb, Mrs. Joseph Delafield, Mrs. Henry D. Gilpin, Miss Mary Garretson, the Honorable George M. DalIas, the Honorable Gulian C. Verplanck, the Honorable George Bancroft, David Cod wise, Esquire, Augustus K. Macdonough, Esquire, A. Judson Kneeland, Esquire, W. Coventry H. WaddelI, Esquire, Henry B. Dawson, Esquire, George H. Moo re, Esquire, and William - Henry Forman, Esquire. The late Honornble Henry D. Gilpin, who was Attorney-General in the cabinet of M Van Buren, and one of the most accomplished among American public men, enjoyed a long political and personal intinacy with the subject of this volume. He was the author of the sketch of Mr. Livingston which appeared, before the death of the latter, in the National Portrait Gallery. He afterwards read a necrological notice of Livingston before the American Philosophical Society, which has been published. And he intended, and began to write a more extended life of his friend, for which purpose he had in his possession the same manuscript materials which I have now employed. But he had not proceeded far in this task when its fuIfilment was precluded by his own untimely end...

How long is Life of Edward Livingston?

Life of Edward Livingston by Charles Havens Hunt is 476 pages long, and a total of 121,856 words.

This makes it 161% the length of the average book. It also has 149% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Life of Edward Livingston Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 5 minutes to read Life of Edward Livingston aloud.

What Reading Level is Life of Edward Livingston?

Life of Edward Livingston is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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