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Alonzo and Melissa: or The unfeeling father : An American tale / By Daniel Jackson, Jr.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS807.M55 A88 1831c
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Alonzo and Melissa.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Brown, William V. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter [N.H.] : Published for A.R. Brown, 1831.
- Notes:
- Except for a few verbal substitutions, this is identical to Isaac Mitchell's story "Alonzo and Melissa, a tale" which appeared serially in the Political barometer, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., June 5-Oct 30, 1804. Mitchell's story, revised and copyrighted, first appeared in book form in a two volume set published at Poughkeepsie in 1811 under title: The asylum; or, Alonzo and Melissa. In the same year the first of the plagiarized editions by Daniel Jackson, Jun. was published at Plattsburgh, N.Y. under title: A short account of the courtship of Alonzo & Melissa.
- For further discussions of authorship see BAL 14020, DAB v. 13, p. 48-49, and Book notes, Providence, R.I., Jan. 14, 1905, p. 1-6.
- "Henry and Julia. A tale of real life. By N.H. Wright."--p. 253-256.
- Cited in:
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850, 1895
- Checklist Amer. imprints 7704
- Contains:
- Wright, N. Hill (Nathaniel Hill), 1787-1824. Henry and Julia.
- OCLC:
- 13635778
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