Collecting by letter

Description:

Of all the literary productions of that day, having for its theme the character and doings of the men and times of the Revolution, the remarkable epic entitled M'Fingal is confessedly most deserving of immortality. For the manners of the poem, there is no record of the period which supplies so vivid a presentation of the old Revolutionary Whig habits of thinking and acting. - Introduction.

subjects: Poetry,  History,  Portraits,  Collecting of accounts,  Commercial correspondence,  Engraving

People: Joel Barlow (1754-1812)

Places: United States

Times: Revolution, 1775-1783