Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville militia, second brigade, to his old friend Mr. Dwight, of the New-York Daily Advertiser

by Charles Augustus Davs

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First edition

New York: Harper Brothers, 1834. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 2 , 245, 2 , 236-240, 9, 7 ; contains 29 letters, with 28 listed in the table of contents; frontispiece and six plates; original brown muslin, paper label on spine; boards faded and rubbed, dampstain in gutter, text foxed, good. Much of the text, written in feigned backwoods dialect, centers on the National Bank controversy. See Sabin 84162 under Seba Smith, where this title is identified as a

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