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An Unpublished Reminiscence Of James Fenimore Cooper, Constantine Evans
An Unpublished Reminiscence Of James Fenimore Cooper, Constantine Evans
The Courier
A reminiscence of James Fenimore Cooper, written in 1889, lies among the papers of William Mather (1802-1890) in the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University. It is written in pencil on two sheets of paper, one of which is the blank back of a Herkimer County newspaper supplement of 1889. Each sheet is folded to form a sort of booklet. Mather's text, as it stands, is disjointed and marred by occasionally confused syntax, illegible words, and repetitions. A series of false starts, of beginnings not decided upon, occurs before something of a narrative coherence is achieved. Material obviously intended …
James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man To Author, Constantine Evans
James Fenimore Cooper: Young Man To Author, Constantine Evans
The Courier
This article provides a biographical look at the American author James Fenimore Cooper. It traces his roots from his youth in Cooperstown—named after his father William—to his ill-timed naval career, and on to his time as a self-conscious novelist.