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Bartlett, Elisha

physician, author, was born in 1805, in Smithfield, R. I. He was a Rhode Island physician; and the author of The Fevers of the United States; and Simple Settings in Verse for Portraits and Pictures in Mr. Dicken's Gallery. He died July 18, 1855, in Smithfield, R. I. BARTLETT, ELIZABETH COLLIS, author, was born Nov. 5, 1838, in New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Bartlett's husband was editor of the Scientific American.

After his death she became a writer of short stories, and at present is writing stories on English history.

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