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Americanus. Magazine fragments, 1741-1830.

Title: Magazine fragments, 1741-1830.

Fragments from 18th and 19th century American and English magazines. The collection contains one leaf (2 pages) from "The gentleman's magazine," XI, September 1741 containing "On false historians : a satire" by Richard Savage. Also 5 leaves (10 pages) from "The gentleman's magazine," XXV, August, 1755 containing "A hymn in the country" by Americanus; a circled poem "Westminster Abbey" by W. Rider proclaiming vengeance against foes; and a review of a pamphlet "The naked truth" discouraging the populace from driving the ministry into a ruinous war, suggesting that French lands in America be purchased for less than the cost of war. Also a 2 leaf (4 pages) supplement to "The Universal Magazine" LVI, 1775, containing "The triumph of America, an ode." Also 3 leaves (6 pages) from the New-York Mirror, and Ladies' Literary Gazette, January 23, 1830, containing a lengthy marked article on Mary Elizabeth Aiken Brooks and paragraphs on Gouverneur Morris and Fisher Ames. Also 2 leaves (4 pages) from an unidentified English? magazine containing Edmund Burke's 1775 speech "on moving his resolutions for conciliation with the colonies.

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