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- Publication date: 1850s (x)
- Time period: British Colonial History (x)
- Creator: W. Gilmore Simms (x)
- Places of publication: New York, NY (x)
- Genre
- Biography (1)
- Subject heading
The Life of Captain John Smith. The Founder of Virginia.Biography | Geo. F. Cooledge & Brother | 1847 The Life of Captain John Smith was
published by George F. Cooledge & Brother in March 1847 as part of The Illustrated Library series intended
for school libraries and general reading.[1] Simms’s letters indicate that he began the
biography as early as November 1844 when he wrote to George Frederick Holmes:
“I have half contracted to prepare a Life of Sumter, one of Paul Jones, and a
third of John Smith, with a new edition of his history of Virginia.”[2] By the middle of the month Simms informed
James Lawson he had already “written a chapter.” The process of getting ... |
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