Soliloquy of Prof. John W. Webster after the disappearance of Dr. Geo. Parkman up to the time of his execution

by Mary G. Doe

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Boston? publisher not identified, 1850 . Folio broadside 12¾ x 8½ , the text in triple column beneath the running head, the whole within a decorative border; the text cut in strips and mounted on a later sheet, the last 8 stanzas and portions of the border in facsimile from the Brown University copy. Verse in fifty-four stanzas; first lines: An awful discontent, is resting on my mind. John W. Webster was executed on Aug. 30, 1850, for the

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