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Friday, September 21, 2012

"A Drift-Log on the Mississippi" (1849-1850)


Or, a literary curiosity from The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1849-50.

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

September

From this 1825 edition of James Thomson's The Seasons
White rabbits and all that. Welcoming in Autumn with a poem or two from Helen Hunt Jackson.

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