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The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson with a Memoir of His LifeDocuments | O. A. Roorback | 1833 One of Simms’s most personal
works, The Remains of Maynard Davis
Richardson is an editorial project the writer undertook after his good
friend Richardson’s premature death at the age of 20 on 12 October 1832. While details about their friendship remain scarce,
it is known that Richardson accompanied Simms on the writer’s first trip to the
North,[1]
and Simms dedicated his long 1832 narrative poem Atalantis to him, referring to the younger man’s “high moral and
intellectual worth” in his dedicatory note.
The families of the two men had been long acquainted ... |
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The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens, in the Years 1777-8, Now First Printed from Original Letters Addressed to His Father, Henry Laurens, President of Congress, with a MemoirRevolutionary History | Documents | The Bradford Club | 1867 The Army Correspondence of
Colonel John Laurens was published in an 1867 limited edition printing by
the Bradford Club of New York.[1] This collection displays Simms’s efforts of
documentary editing in the vein of a similar project he published the prior
year, Selections from the Letters and
Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond (1866). The
Army Correspondence consists of letters John Laurens wrote to his father,
Henry, between the years of 1777 and 1778 during his service with the Continental
Army in the Revolutionary War. The
volume also features an introductory ... |
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Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South CarolinaAntebellum Period | Documents | The Reprint Company; John F. Trow & Co. | 1866, 1978 Selections from the Letters and
Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina was originally
published in New York by John F. Trow & Co. in 1866. The Southern Studies Program at the
University of South Carolina included Selections
in the South Caroliniana Series, and so it was published by the Reprint Company
in 1978. James Henry Hammond (1807-1864)
served South Carolina as a member of Congress from 1835-1836, governor from
1842-1844, and United States senator from 1857 until 1860, when he resigned
upon South Carolina’s secession from the Union.
Hammond ... |