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Additional authors

1. Juvenal
2. Wilberforce Eames Indian Collection

Description

1. 2 p.l., (i)iv-vi, 64 p., 2 l., (1)68-181 p., front. (port.); 8vo.

Subject

1. Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
2. Ohio > Description and travel
3. Juvenal
4. Pontiac, Ottawa Chief, -1769
5. English poetry

Contents

1. Journal of Captain Thomas Morris. Letter to a friend on the poetical elocution of the theatre. Juvenal's Satires IV and XIV, translated. Odes with a French translation by the author.

Call number

1. *KF 1791 (Morris, T. Miscellanies in prose and verse)

Note

1. The "Journal of Captain Thomas Morris" is dated: Detroit, September 25, 1764.

Indexed in (note)

1. Sabin
2. Field: Indian bibliography

Author

1. Morris, Thomas, 1732?-

Title

1. Miscellanies in prose and verse. By Captain Thomas Morris.

Imprint

1. London, Printed for James Ridgway, 1791.

Indexed in:

1. Sabin 50876
2. Field: Indian bibliography 1095

Local note

1. Inserted, an excerpt from The American Antiquarian, January, 1881, commenting on the discovery of a volume of Shakespeare among the Indians, which incident is narrated by Morris in his journal.

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1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Juvenal. Satirae. Selections. English. Morris.
2. Wilberforce Eames Indian Collection.

Research call number

1. *KF 1791 (Morris, T. Miscellanies in prose and verse)