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''The Mothers of the South'' / The Maid of Congaree / Song of the Alabama Pine Woods / Children's Evening Gambols ([The Magnolia, July 1842] Page 9, Four Items)Poetry | 1842-07 William Gilmore Simms's collection of scrapbooks represents one
of the most significant, but least accessible, resources for the study of the writer.
Housed as a part of the Charles Carroll Simms collection in the South
Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina, there are nine volumes
of scrapbooks, each comprised of works of numerous genres from throughout
Simms's career.[1]
While the majority of the included works are Simms's own, the scrapbooks also
features writings by others, as well as works of uncertain authorship. Prior to
digitizing these volumes, access to them ... |
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Southern Passages and PicturesPoetry | George Adlard | 1839 Southern Passages and Pictures is a volume of poetry by William
Gilmore Simms, although his name is not mentioned directly on the title page.
The work announced its author simply as the writer of “Atalantis,” “The
Yemassee,” “Guy Rivers,” and “Carl Werner,” perhaps assuming that readers would
know Simms in association with his authorship of these well-read works. The volume was published in December of 1838
by George Adlard, who also published Carl
Werner on Simms’s behalf. Craighead
and Allen were the Printers. Although Southern
Passages and Pictures was published ... |