Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 [1853], Vasconselos: a romance of the New World (Redfield, New York) [word count] [eaf687T].
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Front matter
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Preliminaries
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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett
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Title Page
VASCONSELOS
A
ROMANCE OF THE NEW WORLD
BY
FRANK COOPER
“Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs
Are servanted to others. Though I owe
My revenge properly, my remission lies
In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiars,
Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather
Than pity note how much.”
Coriolanus
REDFIELD
110 AND 112 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK
1853
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Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1853
BY REDFIELD,
110 AND 112 NASSAU STREET.
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of
New York.
E. O. JENKINS, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER,
114 Nassau Street.
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Dedication
TO DR. JOHN W. FRANCIS.
OF NEW YORK.
My Dear Sir:
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The last evening I had the pleasure of spending at your
house, the conversation turned upon certain psychological topics,
which your experience in science enabled you to illustrate in a
very remarkable manner. The great crime which gives color,
and I trust, interest, to this romance, will probably remind you
of some of the points discussed in that conversation. This, I
hope, apart from other considerations, will confer upon this volume
a certain degree of attraction in your eyes. But, as an historical
romance, embodying a very curious and interesting progress,
during a very striking period in modern discovery, I do
not despair of securing your interest in the work, since your
taste, as we well know, and your own resources as a reminiscent,
will naturally incline you to a narrative which is meant
to increase our familiarity with one of the most magnificent
episodes in American History. May I hope that you will read
with pleasure what I have written!
F. C.
New York, Oct., 1. 1853.
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Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 [1853], Vasconselos: a romance of the New World (Redfield, New York) [word count] [eaf687T].
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