Manuscript Notebook The March Of Mind A Thing Designd To Be Mouthd Commencement Day So It Favor Find

by John Power Knowles

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First edition

Providence? 1836 . Small 4to, 20 leaves in all, in ink; very good and legible, but the notebook itself with covers loose and chipped. A note inside the front wrapper reads: To the reader - The first four leaves do not belong to the piece as delivered. The reader will therefore begin at the fifth leaf. After reading from the fifth leaf onward, he may if he choose read the first four. They belong to the first edition, which proved too long, for the occasion. The occasion was apparently

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