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Seba Smith, a journalist who lived in Portland, Maine and later, New York City, wrote, under the pen name "Jack Downing," a collection of letters of that name published in 1833. Smith also authored a collection of tales and essays, Down East, as well as Powhatan, a Metrical Romance and the mathematics text New Elements of Geometry.

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Works in the EAF Collection

John Smith's Letters, with "Picters" to Match (1839) (Restricted)

The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing of Downingville, Away Down East in the State of Maine. Written by Himself (1833) (Restricted)

May-Day in New York; or, House-Hunting and Moving; Illustrated and Explained in Letters to Aunt Keziah by Major Jack Downing [pseud] (1845) (Restricted)

My Thirty Years Out of the Senate by Major Jack Downing [pseud] (1859)

The Select Letters of Major Jack Downing (1834) (Restricted)

Way Down East; or, Portraitrures of Yankee Life (1854) (Restricted)

EAF Manuscript Materials

Letter: Squire Downing (Seba Smith) to the Editor of the Leveller (February, 185?)

Contemporary Biographies

From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors (1901)

From Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1900)

From Evert A. Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1856)

Other Resources

Guides to Seba Smith manuscript holdings from UVA Special Collections :

Smith, Seba/Major Jack Downing.: #8529

Smith, Seba/Major Jack Downing.: #8529-a