Smith, Seba, 1792-1868 [1839], John Smith's [pseud] letters, with "picters" to match (Samuel Colman, New York) [word count] [eaf379].
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Front matter
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Preliminaries
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JOHN SMITH'S LETTERS,
WITH
`PICTERS' TO MATCH.
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Title Page
JOHN SMITH'S LETTERS,
WITH
`PICTERS' TO MATCH.
CONTAINING
REASONS WHY JOHN SMITH SHOULD NOT CHANGE HIS NAME,
MISS DEBBY SMITH'S JUVENILE SPIRIT;
TOGETHER WITH
THE ONLY AUTHENTIC HISTORY EXTANT OF THE
LATE WAR IN OUR
DISPUTED TERRITORY.
“Is John Smith within?
Yes, that he is.”
Mother Goosx.
NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL COLMAN,
NO. 8 ASTOR HOUSE, BROADWAY.
1839.
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Acknowledgment
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Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
SAMUEL COLMAN, in the Clerk's Office, of the Southern District
of New York.
Stereotyped by James Turney, Junr.
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Acknowledgment
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Letter
Smithville, Down East, in the state of Maine.
April 25, 1839.
To Mr. Samuel Colman, No. 8 Astor House, New-York.
Dear Sir:
I see by some of the papers that you are a goin'
to put out a book, containing my letters that I've been
writing to the New-York Mirror. That I should ever
come to be the writer of a book is what I never expected;
but strange things happens now days; and if you
think the letters that I and my son John have writ, are
worth making into a book, I'm willing you should do
it. If you are a goin' to have picters in it, as the papers
say you be, I wish you would send me a few of 'em,
for there's nothing in this world that my children likes
to see so well as they do picters.
Cousin Debby says it is the fashion, when any body
puts out a book, to have it dedicated to some body; and
if you should think it best to put in a dedication, I want
it to be to uncle Joshua Downing, of Downingville, out
of respect I feel for the memory of my cousin, Major
Jack Downing. I don't mean none of your New-York
counterfeit Jack Downings, that stole my cousin Jack's
name, but my own dear cousin, the Major, that writ all
his letters in the Portland Courier, and the Downing
Gazette, printed in Portland, State of Maine. I send a
dedication that you can put in, if you think it is best.
Your friend and well-wisher,
JOHN SMITH, Esquire.
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Dedication
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Letter
TO
UNCLE JOSHUA DOWNING,
POSTMASTER OF DOWNINGVILLE IN THE STATE OF MAINE,
THE HONEST MAN, THE TRUE BLUE REPUBLICAN, THE STAUNCH
FRIEND OF MAJOR JACK DOWNING AND GINERAL JACKSON,
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED WITH THE HIGHEST RESPECTS OF
THE AUTHOR.
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Smith, Seba, 1792-1868 [1839], John Smith's [pseud] letters, with "picters" to match (Samuel Colman, New York) [word count] [eaf379].
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