| Item Description: | "To the ingenious author of the poem, entitled Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. v-viii, in verse; signed: N.W. [i.e., Noah Welles]. "To Mr. L***************, on his Philosophic solitude, &c."--p. ix-xii, in verse; signed: W.P.S. [i.e., William Peartree Smith]. Cf. Sedgwick, Theodore. Memoir of the life of William Livingston (New York, 1833), p. 62. - Attributed to Livingston in the Dictionary of American biography. - English Short Title Catalog, W6690. - Evans, 9160. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 245 |
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