Note 439 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks

Russell, William Howard, My Diary North and South (Boston, 1863), p. 25. “Mr. Appleton sells no less than one million and a half of Webster’s spelling-books a year; his tables are covered with a flood of pamphlets, some for, others against coercion; some for, others opposed to slavery,—but when I asked for a single solid, substantial work on the present difficulty, I was told there was not one published worth a cent.”