[Jewett, Charles Coffin.]

The close of the late rebellion, in Rhode Island. An extract from a letter by a Massachusetts man resident in Providence. Second edition.

Providence: B. Cranston & Co., 1842. 8vo, pp. 16; original printed blue wrappers; trimmed, vertical crease, removed from binding; very good. Jewett was a bibliographer and historian at Brown University from where he graduated in 1835, and who subsequently became professor of modern languages and literature. In 1848 he became assistant librarian at the Smithsonian but was removed in 1853 over a disagreement on policy. He finished his career at Boston Public. This, his first of many publications, recounts his experiences in R.I. during the Dorr Rebellion. American Imprints 2673; Bartlett, p. 89; Sabin 13776. Item #55276

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