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Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky : describing a winter in the West Indies
- Title
- Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky : describing a winter in the West Indies / by Joseph John Gurney.
- Author
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847.
- Publication
- New-York : Press of Mahlon Day & Co., 374 Pearl-Street, 1840
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare 917.29-G (Gurney, J. J. Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | HNH (Gurney, J. J. Familiar letters to Henry Clay) | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | HNH (Gurney, J. J. Familiar letters to Henry Clay) | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- 203, [1] p.; 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Black people > West Indies > Social conditions
- Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
- Letters
- West Indies > Social life and customs
- Antislavery literature
- Slaves > West Indies
- Slavery > West Indies
- Jamaica > Social life and customs
- West Indies > Description and travel
- Slaves > Emancipation > West Indies
- Jamaica > Description and travel
- Genre/Form
- Letters.
- Antislavery literature.
- Note
- A visit to some of the Leeward Islands and Cuba, with a more extended description of Jamaica.
- The London edition, also published in 1840, has title: A winter in the West Indies, described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky.
- Last page blank.
- Appendices, p. [179]-203.
- Indexed In (note)
- Checklist of American imprints
- Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 917.29-G (Gurney, J. J. Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky)
- LCCN
- 02008497
- OCLC
- 1266528
- NYPGR1266528-B
- Author
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847.
- Title
- Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky : describing a winter in the West Indies / by Joseph John Gurney.
- Imprint
- New-York : Press of Mahlon Day & Co., 374 Pearl-Street, 1840 ([New York] : James Egbert, printer)
- Indexed In:
- Checklist of American imprints 40-2842Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression 2654Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 4428
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 917.29-G (accession no. B498009) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Letters. rbgenrAntislavery literature. rbgenrClay, Henry, 1777-1852.Mahlon Day & Co., publisher.Egbert, James, printer.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 917.29-G (Gurney, J. J. Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky)HNH (Gurney, J. J. Familiar letters to Henry Clay)