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Conway's Autobiography tells the story of how he helped his father's fugitive slaves settle in Yellow Springs, Ohio, during the Civil War, and how he gradually lost his religious faith. It also charts his dealings with figures such as Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Annie Besant, and Andrew Carnegie. Conway's Addresses and Reprints, 1850-1907 contains miscellaneous writings and speeches on public affairs, philosophy, and literature. Together, these rare volumes form a set invaluable to historians of nineteenth-century America.