Abstract
RICHARD HILDRETH is one of the more enigmatic figures in American intellectual history. Most of the details of his life have disappeared from record; and though his books remain, they provide a picture of the man much more confusing than convincing. To those who have read only his History, he appears beyond question to be the typical New England conservative, while those forced to dismiss this simple hypothesis by looking further in his writings find him a bundle of contradictions to be resolved only by some such conclusion of despair as His mind was conveniently compartmentalized. 1 The obscurity into which Hildreth has fallen is largely a result of his own eccentricities and reserves. He was born in
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