Hamilton period

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• Hamilton, William

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• Hayne, Paul Hamilton

  (1830-1886) Poet, b. at Charleston, S. Carolina, of an old family, contributed to various magazines...

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• Maxwell, William Hamilton

  (1792-1850) Novelist, a Scoto-Irishman, b. at Newry, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, entered the ...

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