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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

William Wirt (1772–1834)

Wirt, William. An American lawyer and author; born at Bladensburg, MD, Nov. 8, 1772; died at Washington, DC, Feb. 18, 1834. His writings are: ‘Letters of a British Spy,’ which first appeared in the Virginia Argus (1803); ‘The Rainbow’ (1804); which was written for the Richmond Enquirer; and his chief work, ‘Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry’ (1817). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).