Research Catalog

Title

Thoughts and stories on tobacco for American lads; or Uncle Toby's anti-tobacco advice to his nephew Billy Bruce.

Author

Trask, George, 1798-1875.

Publication

Boston, The author, 1852.

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Additional Authors

• Waud, Alfred R.
• Hayes, G. H.

Description

179 p. incl. front., plates.; 16 cm.

Subject

• Tobacco use
• Tobacco use > Juvenile literature
• Youth > Tobacco use
• Smoking in art
• Snuff in art

Genre/Form

Juvenile works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Letter I: Jesse Shute with his lemon and first cigar; drunk as a Toper -- Letter II: The filthy habit -- Letter III: Siamese twins; or rum and tobacco -- Letter IV: James Tenney killed by the first quid; or tobacco a murderer -- Letter V: The young midshipman, who wept when deprived of tobacco; or the power of the habit -- Letter VI: James Dixey, the boy who was made a maniac by using tobacco; or tobacco and insanity -- Letter VII: A farm thrown away; or the great cost of tobacco -- Letter VIII: The juvenile rogues at the Westborough School; or crime and tobacco -- Letter IX: A small leak sinks a great ship; or the soul and tobacco -- Letter X: On reform and cure -- Appendix : An address from Hon. Horace Mann -- Letter from Rev. Mr. Channing -- Letter from Hon. Neal Dow -- Letter from Rev. W.G.B. -- Letter from Rev. Mr. Kirk -- Letter from Hon. Orin Fowler -- Letter from Rev. Dr. Humphrey -- Letter from P.T. Barnum, Esq. -- Letter from Rev. Dr. Woods -- Letter from Gerritt Smith, Esq. -- Letter from Dr. Hoyt -- An appeal from Rev. Geo. Trask -- Testimony of D.J.A. English -- Testimony of John Quincy Adams -- One of a thousand -- Anti-tobacco pledge.

LCCN

^^^16004221^

OCLC

• 6164401
• SCSB-12417721

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library