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2007 Summer Seminar

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History of the Book Summer Seminar Syllabus

"Re-Reading the Early Republic: From Crèvecoeur to Cooper"
Monday, June 18, through Friday, June 22, 2007

Wayne Franklin
Department of English and Program in American Studies
University of Connecticut
215 Glenbrook Road U4025
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4025
wayne.franklin[at]uconn.edu

- Books -

• Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America, ed. Albert E. Stone (New York: Penguin, 1981).
• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and others, The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery. The Abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska Edition, ed. Gary B. Moulton (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
• James Fenimore Cooper, The Red Rover: A Tale, ed. Thomas and Marianne Philbrick (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).

- Syllabus -

Monday, June 18

• Welcome, Introductions, Overview
  9:00-10:00
  (Goddard Daniels House)
  Joanne D. Chaison, Research Librarian, AAS
  Wayne Franklin, Seminar Leader, University of Connecticut
  (Note: Coffee available during each morning session at 10:00 a.m.)
• Monday Morning Seminar
  10:30-noon
  Editing and Reading the Early Republic
  

• 1. Literature, History, and the Text

• Readings

• G. Thomas Tanselle, "Printing History and Other History," Studies in Bibliography 48(1995): 269-289.
  Read online
• G. Thomas Tanselle, "Thoughts on the Authenticity of Electronic Texts," Studies in Bibliography 54(2001): 133-136.
  Read online
• Donald Jackson, "What I Did for Love--of Editing," Western Historical Quarterly 13(1982): 291-297.
• Constance B. Schulz, "'From Generation Unto Generation': Transitions in Modern Documentary Historical Editing," Reviews in American History 16(1988): 337-350.
• Jack Stillinger, "What is an Author," in Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 3-24.
• Steven Mailloux, "Reading Typos, Reading Archives," College English 61(1999): 584-590.
• Paul Eggert, "Where Are We Now with Authorship and the Work?" with Authorship and the Work?" The Yearbook of English Studies 29(1999): 88-102.
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• 2. Printing in the Early Republic

• Readings

• Mark Schantz, "Religious Tracts, Evangelical Reform, and the Market Revolution in Antebellum America," Journal of the Early Republic 17(1997): 425-446.
• David Paul Nord, "A Republican Literature: A Study of Magazine Reading and Readers in Late Eighteenth Century New York," American Quarterly 40(1988): 42-64.
• David Paul Nord, "The Evangelical Origins of Mass Media in America, 1815-1835," Journalism Monographs 88(May 1984).
• Charles G. Steffen, "Newspapers for Free: The Economies of Newspaper Circulation in the Early Republic," Journal of the Early Republic 23(2003): 381-419.
• Rosalind Remer, "Preachers, Peddlers, and Publishers: Philadelphia's Backcountry Book Trade, 1800 1830," Journal of the Early Republic 14(1994): 497-522.
• William Charvat, "The Conditions of Authorship in 1820," in The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968): 29-48.
• David Kaser, "Publishing American Authors," in Messrs. Carey & Lea of Philadelphia: A Study in the History of the Booktrade (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957), 67-89, and notes, 164-166.
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• Lunch
  12:00-1:15
  (Goddard Daniels House)
• Monday Afternoon Workshop
  1:15-3:00
  Authorship as (Self-)Elaboration -- the Case of Michel-Guillaume-Jean de
  Crèvecoeur (1735-1813)
  (Council Room, Antiquarian Hall)

• Main text

• Albert E. Stone, ed., Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America (New York: Penguin, 1981).

• Other Readings

• Wayne Franklin, "Crèvecoeur's Published Writings: A Map" (MSS)
• Howard C. Rice, "The American Farmer's Letters, with a Checklist of the Different Editions," The Colophon, part 18 (1934).
• Thomas L. Philbrick, St. John de Crèvecoeur (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1968), "The French Writings," pp. 134-160.
• Percy G. Adams, "Notes on Crèvecoeur," American Literature 20(1948): 327-333.
• Dennis D. Moore, "Textual Introduction," More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), lxxvii-xci.
• Dennis D. Moore, "Problems in the 1920s Versions," More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), xiv-xviii.
• Thomas Jefferson to François Soulés, January 19, 1787, and February 2, [1787], The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd et al., vol. 11 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955), 56, 110.
  
• Jefferson to Crèvecoeur, January 15, 1787, and [c. Feb. 1787], The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd et al., vol. 11 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955), 43-44, 188.
• Crèvecoeur to Jefferson, April 16, 1787, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd et al., vol. 11 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955), 294-295.
• Jefferson to Crèvecoeur, August 6, 1787, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd et al., vol. 11 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955), 692.
• Grantland Rice, The Transformation of Authorship in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 99-124.
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• Break
  3:00-3:15
• Conclusion
  3:15-4:45

• Drinks and Dinner
  5:00-8:00
  (Goddard Daniels House)

Tuesday, June 19

• Tuesday Morning Seminar
  9:00-noon
  
Crèvecoeur on the Susquehanna: An Intensive Textual Map
(Goddard Daniels House)

• Main text

• "On the Susquehanna; The Wyoming Massacre," in Albert E. Stone, ed., Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America (New York: Penguin, 1981), 353-390.

• Readings

• Dennis D. Moore, ed., "Susquehannah--," in More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), 163-204.
• Crèvecoeur, Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain (Paris: Cuchet, 1787), "Hutième Lettre: Essquise d'un voyage de Ménessink sur la Délaware &c; à la Wioming, sur le Susquéhannah, &c.. (3:161 208); and "Nuvième Lettre: Essquise sur la destruction des établissemens des Habitans de Connecticut sur le branche orientale de la Susquéhannah" (3:209-215). These can be found via http://gallica.bnf.fr./ Once you are on the Gallica site, search (use the "Recerche" button on the top) on the title and make sure that you get the 1787 edition of Lettres (the second item returned), which is represented on Gallica solely by this third volume (Gallica also has the two volume 1784 edition, complete, as well as one volume of the three volume Voyage dans le Haute Pensilvanie et dans l.etat de New York [1801]). NB: The two 1787 Lettres texts indicated here are Crèvecoeur's translations into French of the two part Susquehanna/Wyoming text of the so called "Sketches."
• John Hales, "The Landscape of Tragedy: Crèvecoeur's Susquehanna," Early American Literature 20(1985): 39-63.

• Lunch
  12:00-1:15
  (Goddard Daniels House)
• Tuesday Afternoon Workshop
  1:15-3:00
  Collective Authorship in the Early Republic -- Lewis and Clark (and Gass and Whitehouse and Biddle and Allen ...)
  (Council Room, Antiquarian Hall)

• Main Text

• Gary B. Moulton, ed., The Lewis and Clark Journals: The American Epic of Discovery. The Abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska Edition (2003).

• Other Readings

• James P. Ronda, "Dreams and Discoveries: Exploring the American West, 1760 1815," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 46(1989): 145-162.
• Elliott Coues, "Description of the Original Manuscript Journals and Field Notebooks of Lewis and Clark, on Which Was Based Biddle's History of the Expedition of 1804-6, and Which Are Now in the Possession of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 31(1893): 17-33.
• Lester Cappon, "Who is the Author of History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark (1814)?" William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser. 19(1962): 257-268.
• Gunther Barth, "Timeless Journals: Reading Lewis and Clark with Nicholas Biddle's Help," Pacific Historical Review 63(1994): 499-519.
• John L. Allen, "An Analysis of the Exploratory Process: The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 1806," Geographical Review 62(1972): 13-39.
• Gary Moulton, "The Specialized Journals of Lewis and Clark," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 127(1983): 194-201.
• Thomas Jefferson, "Jefferson's Instructions to Lewis, June 20, 1803," Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 1: 61-66.

• Break
  3:00-3:15
• Conclusion
  3:15-4:30

Wednesday, June 20

• Wednesday Morning Workshop
  8:30-noon
  The Hinman Collator and the Multiplicity of the Printed Text
  (Antiquarian Hall -- Reading Room, 8:30-around 10:00, then to Council Room)

Lance Schachterle, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Editor in Chief, Writings of James Fenimore Cooper (AMS Press)

The Spy, The Pioneers, The Red Rover, The Bravo

• Readings

• Lance Schachterle, "Cooper and His Collaborators: Recovering Cooper's Final Intentions for His Fiction," Studies in Bibliography 56(2003-2004): 317-337.
• Steven Escar Smith, "'The Eternal Verities Verified': Charlton Hinman and the Roots of Mechanical Collation," Studies in Bibliography 53(2000): 129-162.
  Read online
• James Franklin Beard and James P. Elliott, The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper: A Statement of Editorial Principles and Procedures (Worcester: Clark University Press, 1977), 14-49.
• Wayne Franklin, "Cooper Redivivus," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 39(1993): 49-75.

• Lunch
  12:00-1:15
  (Goddard Daniels House)
• Wednesday Afternoon Seminar
  1:15-3:00
  Salvaging Lewis and Clark after 1806
  (Goddard Daniels House)

• Readings

• Nicholas Biddle/Paul Allen History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark (Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1814), 1: 213-215. Available online via the Evans Early American Imprint (Shaw-Shoemaker) project or at the Library of Congress American Memory site ( http://www.loc.gov/ammem/index.html), where you should search "Lewis and Clark" and scroll down to History of the Expedition, vol. 1. You can also access it, perhaps more easily, at the Penn site linked below.
• Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1904-1905), 2:23-25. Available on line via the Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection, at the following web address: http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/aj&CISOPTR=1179&CISOSHOW=796 (both of the above are also available via the University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page at the following web address: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Lewis%20and%20Clark%20Expedition%20(1804-1806)
• Gary B. Moulton, ed., The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, vol. 2, May 11, 1805 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986). See unique (unpaged) online version at: http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/examples/servlet/transform/tamino/Library/lewisandclarkjournals?&_xmlsrc=http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/lewisandclark/files/xml/1805-05-11.xml&_xslsrc=http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/lewisandclark/LCstyles.xsl
• James Neelly to Thomas Jefferson, October 18, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2: 467-468.
• Statement of Gilbert C. Russell, November 26, 1811, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2: 573-575.
• Alexander Wilson, "Particulars of the Death of Captain Lewis," Port-Folio 7(1812): 34-47.
• Howard I. Kushner, "The Suicide of Meriwether Lewis: A Psychoanalytical Inquiry," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. ser., 38(1981): 464-481.

• Break
  3:00-3:15
• Conclusion
  3:15-4:30

• The Robert Frazer Prospectus [October 1806], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 1:345-346.
• The Patrick Gass Prospectus [March 23, 1807], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:390-391.
• [John] Conrad's Estimate of Publishing Costs [c. April 1807], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:392-393.
• John Conrad to Lewis [c. April 1, 1807]. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:393-394.
• The Conrad Prospectus [c. April 1, 1807]. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:394-397.
• Thomas Jefferson, "To Lacépède, with a Catalogue, July 14, 1808," Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: Library of America, 1984), 1189-192.
• Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, September 21, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:465-466.
• C. and A. Conrad and Co. to Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:468 469.
• Jefferson to C. and A. Conrad and Co., November 23, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:474-475.
• Jefferson to C. and A. Conrad and Co., December 11, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:479.
• Jefferson to James Madison, November 26, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:475-476.
• Charles Willson Peale to [Rembrandt Peale], November 17, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:469-470.
• [William Clark,] Memorandum of Lewis's Personal Effects, [November 23, 1809], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:470-474.
• [Charles Willson] Peale's Memorandum of Specimens and Artifacts, [December 1809], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:476-479.
• Bernard McMahon to Jefferson, December 24, 1809, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:484-486.
• Isaac A. Coles to Jefferson, January 5, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:486-487.
• William D. Meriwether to John Marks, January 5, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:487-488.
• Joel Barlow to Benjamin Rush, January 11, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:488.
• Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, January 13, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:488-489.
• William D. Meriwether to Clark, January 22, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:489-490.
• Clark to William D. Meriwether, January 26, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:490-491.
• Clark to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, January 26, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:491-492.
• John Conrad to Clark, January 29, 1809 [1810], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:492-493.
• John Conrad to Clark, [February 1810], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:493.
• Charles Willson Peale to Rembrandt Peale, February 3, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:493-494.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, February 20, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:494-495.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, March 3, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:495.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, March 17, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:496.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, March 25, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:496-497.
• The Nicholas Biddle Notes [c. April 1810], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:497-545.
• Clark to Henry Dearborn, April 15, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:546.
• The Nicholas Biddle Prospectus [c. May 1810], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:546-548.
• Clark to Benjamin Smith Barton, May 22, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:548-549.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, May 22, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:549-550.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, July 7, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:550-554.
• Nicholas Biddle to David Bailie Warden, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:555-556.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, December 7, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:562-565.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, December 20, 1810, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:565.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, January 24, 1811, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:565-566.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, July 8, 1811, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:569.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, August 15, 1811, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:571-572
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, July 4, 1812, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:577-578.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, August 6, 1812, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:578.
• Clark to Nicholas Biddle, September 5, 1812, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:579.
• Clark to William Eustis, October 24, 1812, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:580-581.
• John Conrad to Nicholas Biddle, November 12, 1812, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:581.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, February 23, 1812, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:582.
• Jefferson to Paul Allen, August 5, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:584-585.
• Paul Allen to Jefferson, August 18, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:585-586.
• Jefferson to Paul Allen, August 18, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:586-593.
• Jefferson to Paul Allen, August 20, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:594-595
• Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, August 20, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:594.
• Nicholas Biddle to Jefferson, September 28, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:595-596.
• Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:596.
• Paul Allen to Jefferson, December 18, 1813, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:597-598.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, March 23, 1814, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:598-599.
• In Account with Bradford & Inskeep, [1815], Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:600-604.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, March 12, 1815, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:604-605.
• Charles Chauncey to Thomas Astley, May 10, 1815, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:605-606.
• Moses Thomas to Nicholas Biddle, July 17, 1815, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:606-607.
• Thomas Astley to Charles Chauncey, November 30, 1815, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:607.
• Jefferson to José Corrèa da Serra, January 1, 1816, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:607-608.
• José Corrèa da Serra to Jefferson, March 29, 1816, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:608-609.
• Jefferson to José Corrèa da Serra, April 26, 1816, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:611-613.
• Nicholas Biddle to Clark, May 29, 1816, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:613-615.
• Nicholas Biddle to Charles Chauncey, June 25, 1816, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:615-617.
• Jefferson to Clark, September 8, 1816, Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, ed. Donald Jackson, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 2:619.

Thursday, June 21

• Thursday Morning Seminar
  9:00-noon
  James Fenimore Cooper and the Publishing Business
  

• Main text

• The Red Rover: A Tale, ed. Thomas and Marianne Philbrick (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991)

• Other readings:

• William Charvat, "Cooper as Professional Author," in The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968): 68-83.
• David Kaser, ed., The Cost Books of Carey & Lea, 1825-1838 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963), 45-46, 51-54, 64-65.
• Cooper, Letters to Andrew Thompson Goodrich, May 31, 1820 to October 21-31, 1820, in James F. Beard, ed., The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960 1968), vol. 1:41-68
• Susan E. Lyman, "'I Could Write You a Better Book Than That Myself'--Twenty Five Unpublished Letters of James Fenimore Cooper," New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin 29(1945): 213-241.
• Wayne Franklin, ch. 8, "A Better Book," James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 240-69, plus notes, 606-612.
• Wayne Franklin, "Writing The Prairie" and "A Pirate Tale" (MSS).
• Cooper, Letters re: Prairie and Red Rover, in James Franklin Beard, ed., Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960-1968), vol. 1:212-216; 219; 221-228; 239-240; 257 259; vol. 6:295-296.

• Lunch
  12:00-1:15
  (Goddard Daniels House)
  GROUP PHOTOGRAPH (LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED)
• Thursday Afternoon Workshop
  1:15-3:00
  From Manuscript to Print
  (Council Room, Antiquarian Hall)

• Jeffrey Walker, Oklahoma State University
  Textual Editor, The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
• Cooper letters
  Author's manuscript and amanuensis copy of The Red Rover

• Break
  3:00-3:15
• Conclusion
  3:15-4:30
  Technologies of Print in the Early Republic
  David Whitesell, Curator of Books, AAS

  Crèvecoeur: prints and reprints
  Editions of The Red Rover.

• Readings

• Jacob Abbott, The Harper Establishment. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. pp. 54-73, 96-102, 115-135, 145-155. Available online at: http://www.merrycoz.org/books/harper/HARPER.HTM#54
• For more information on printing in the hand-press period, read to the extent of your interest in Philip Gaskell, New Introduction to Bibliography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. Especially pp. 40-56, 78-82, 118-132, 201-206, 231-234, 253-261.

• 25th Annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture
  5:30 p.m.
  "Financing America's First Literary Boom"
  Wayne Franklin
  (Reading Room, Antiquarian Hall)
  Reception in GDH follows

Friday, June 22

• Friday Morning Seminar
  9:00-noon
  Crèvecoeur's Cooper Country
  

• Readings

• James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers; or The Sources of The Susquehanna, ed. James Franklin Beard et al. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1980), chapters 1-4 (15-57), 22-26 (242-295), 36-38 (396-424).
• Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York, trans. Clarissa Spencer Bostelmann (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964), 42-49, 86-100 (the story of "J.U.").
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• Lunch and Farewell
  12:00-1:15
  (Goddard Daniels House)