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DICTIONARY OF
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EDITED BY
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DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL
BIOGRAPHY INDEX and EPITOME
Edited by SIDNEY LEE.

This volume is intended to form a summary guide to the vast and varied contents of the Dictionary and its Supplement. Every name, about which substantive biographic information is given in the sixty-three volumes in the Dictionary or in the three Supplementary Volumes, finds mention here in due alphabetical order. An Epitome is given of the leading facts and dates that have been already recorded at length in the pages of the original work, and there is added a precise reference to the volume and page where the full article appears.

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