Account of the great conflagration in Portland, July 4th & 5th, 1866 : manuscript corrections, 1866.

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Account of the great conflagration in Portland, July 4th & 5th, 1866 : manuscript corrections, 1866.

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Four p. ms. - Neal's "p.s." is dated April 29, 1868. "There are two errors worth correcting in my account of the 'great conflagration.'" This may have been included in the contents of a cornerstone deposited May 6, 1868 beneath the eastern corner of the U.S. Court House and Post Office building (box now in museum collections: 1999.231).

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Maine Historical Society Library

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Neal, John, 1793-1876

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American author and editor John Neal was born in Maine and raised as a Quaker, although he broke with the church at a young age due to his fighting. A career as a merchant was bankrupted by the War of 1812, and he turned to literature, joining Baltimore's Delphian Club. He served as editor of various journals, and wrote long, complexly-plotted adventure novels, as well as critical essays, always seeking to promote American literature. While living in England, he wrote a long series of articles p...