Traits of the aborigines of America : a poem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, E. G. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Miner, Charles (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copies 1 & 2)

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Harrington, Lemuel (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Ladies' Reading and Charitable Society (Paxton, Mass.) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

284 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

[Cambridge, Mass.] : Hilliard and Metcalf.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Mass.] : From the University Press ; Boston : Sold by Cummings & Hilliard, 1822.

Notes:

Published anonymously. Written by L.H. Sigourney.--Cf. Halkett & Laing.

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"Notes": p. [183]-284.

"Errata": p. [285].

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 inscribed to Mr. E.G. Smith with the respects of the author, Hartford, May 22nd.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 inscribed to Charles Miner, Esq. with the respects of the author, Hartford, Oct. 1834.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has dated 19th-century ms. inscription ("No. 72 Presented by Mr. Lemuel Harrington to the young Ladies Reading & Charitable Society in Paxton February 1829") recording the presentation of this volume by Lemuel Harrington (1804-1829) to the Ladies' Reading and Charitable Society of Paxton, Mass. (founded 1824) on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Cited in:

Shoemaker, 10278

OCLC:

1678855