Format

Book; Online

Published

New York, N.Y. : Samuel Colman, 1839.

Language

English

Variant Title

John Smiths letters 1839

Description

139 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Notes

• Sabin 84145; Wright I 2464; BAL 18382.
• BAL's 1st printing with signature collation: [1]-12⁶; plates are only 16.5 cm. high.
• A collection of humorous letters first published in the New York Mirror.
• Not included under Seba Smith's works in Williamson's Bibliography of Maine, but attributed to Seba Smith by M.A. Wyman in her Two American pioneers, p. 87-88 and 236, and by Sabin.

Local Notes

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Original boards with blue cloth backstrip and paper label on front, which reads: John Smith's letters, with picters to match, consarning the disputed territory away down east in the state of Maine. London: Wiley & Putnam, 67 Paternoster Row, 1839. Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Seba Smith Collection.

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Availability

Library	Location	Map	Availability	Call Number
Special Collections	Special Collections	N/A	Available	PS2876 .J6 1839