Original and select poems, moral, religious and sentimental : calculated to refine the taste, elevate the mind, and attract the attention of the youth of both sexes / by the Stranger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Story, Isaac, 1774-1803.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schemerhorn, Julia (autograph)

Physical Description:

144 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Poems

Place of Publication:

Albany : Printed by Webster and Wood, 1827.

Notes:

Title vignette.

Sometimes attributed to Isaac Story (1774-1803) who used the pseudonym "The stranger". However, the volume includes (p. 12) the poem "In memory of Sophia Holbrook, who died at Brattleboro, in November, 1821".

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Julia Schemerhorn, New Brunswick, 1836.

Culture Class Collection copy has poems pasted to front and back pastedowns and free endpapers in addition to all preliminary and closing leaves of this book.

Culture Class Collection copy has 2 poems cut from a newspaper and a magazine laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] loose leaf with notes written in ms. laid in.

OCLC:

3561818