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The likeness which is inserted as a frontispiece to the "Consolations of Solitude" is reproduced from the best of a dozen daguerreotypes, taken as a special gift for me at my request, about 1853, when Dr. Randall was forty years old. The fine steel engraving which stands as a general frontispiece to "Poems of Nature and Life" was made from a photograph taken in March or April, 1885, just before his first paralytic stroke, when he was seventy-one.