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- Publication date: 1850s (x)
- Dedicatee: Hon. James K. Paulding (x)
- Holding Institution: University of South Carolina, South Caroliniana Library (x)
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- Novel (Romance) (1)
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The Damsel of DarienEarly Modern History | Novel (Romance) | Lea and Blanchard | 1839 The Damsel of Darien was published in
two volumes in 1839. Simms first mentioned
the story to James Lawson in a 2 September 1838 letter, revealing that he
“wrote during the first part of the summer some 150 pages of a new novel &
there it sticks.”[1] Simms informed Lawson in January of 1839 that
Damsel would be published with Lea
& Blanchard of Philadelphia, who would pay $1000 for a first edition of
3,000 copies; in the meantime, Simms was busy revising the “numerous errors of
history & geography” committed while composing the first volume of the story.[2] ... |