Tonnewonte, or, The adopted son of America : a tale, containing scenes from real life / by an American.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Julia Catherine Beckwith, 1796-1867.

Contributor:

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Fiction.

Emigration and immigration.

Manners and customs.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

312 pages ; 15 cm

Other Title:

Tonnewonte

Adopted son of America

Place of Publication:

Exeter : B.H. Meder, 1831.

Notes:

Published anonymously. Author from Checklist Amer. imprints.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has 2 ms. notes ("to all who take this book in hand I isue[?] this a just command tear not a leaf in any part or soil with dirt the painter[?] Art[?]" and "Steal not this book for if you do the word of god will follow you and when you die the lord will say whare is that book you stole away L W") on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 1: binding partially detached from textblock; pastedowns damaged.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: author's name supplied in ms. in pencil on title leaf; ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 has a few early brief ms. inscriptions (pen tests?) on free endpapers; ms. note in pencil ("this is a good book") in head margin of p. 35.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 bound in blue paper wrappers.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: front free endpaper and title leaf mutilated at foot; wormhole in tail margin of first few leaves in vol.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 7459

OCLC:

13413586