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by Auxcencio Maria Pena

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

New Haven, CT: 1829 . Broadside with two columns of verse within an ornamental border. 29 x 24 cm. Small tear in lower border, modest soiling at top. American Imprints 39988. OCLC: CT Hist Soc, Yale, AAS, Harvard, Princeton, Brown. Verse in thirty-two stanzas satirizing an unpopular tutor at Yale College; first line: Let others prate about their bear and fiddle. Written by Auxcencio Maria Pena, a student from Mexico who was afterward expelled, and recited by him in the college chapel. Copies

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