The Americans roused, in a cure for the spleen. Or Amusement for a winter's evening; being the substance of a conversation on the times, over a friendly tankard and pipe. Between Sharp, a country parson. Bumper, a country justice. Fillpot, an inn-keeper. Graveairs, a deacon. Trim, a barber. Brim, a Quaker. Puff, a late representative. Taken in short-hand, by Sir Roger de Coverly. [Two lines in Latin from Horace]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Coverly, Roger, Sir, 1728-1796 14140

Language:

English

Physical Description:

32p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : New-England, printed; New-York, re-printed, by James Rivington, [1775?]

Notes:

"Sir Roger De Coverly" is identified as Jonathan Sewall in Sibley's Harvard graduates.

First published at Boston in 1775 with title: A cure for the spleen. Or Amusement for a winter's evening.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 14455; Hill, F.P. Amer. plays, 261