Manuscripts of James Fenimore Cooper [manuscript], 1852 and n.d.

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Manuscripts of James Fenimore Cooper [manuscript], 1852 and n.d.

Manuscripts in the James Fenimore Cooper collection, including letters from Susan Fenimore Cooper, R. Cooper, and George Washington Greene; also included are a typescript and print of Otsego Hall, 1852 and n.d.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly befo...