The Iron Worker and King Solomon

Photocopy of typescript of a manuscript dated Dec. 15, 1868. Manuscript contains: a reprint of a "memoir" of Harrison from "Bishop's history of American manufacturers"; a transcript of the author's speech at La Prairie House, Philadelphia on April 27, 1859; notes on contracts with Russia; ancestral notes of the Harrison and Crawford families; and an autobiographical section, including vignettes of life in Russia, and a first-person account of the Coup d'état in Paris, Dec. 2, 1851.