The state triumvirate, a political tale, and The epistles of Brevet Major Pindar Puff
Contributors: Bunner, Rudolph, 1779-1837; Duer, John, 1782-1858
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 6683-6685
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1819
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Oakley, Thomas J. -- 1783-1857; New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865
Other titles: Epistles of Brevet Major Pindar Puff
Notes: Inserted in manuscript copy are memoranda identifying some of the people mentioned in the book. According to these notes, written in 1838, Rudolph Bunner, John Duer and G.C. Verplanck were the authors of this work. In a letter by J. Verplanck to M. Van Buren, dated Dec. 25, 1819 (perserved in the Library of Congress, Manuscript division) it is stated that John Duer wrote the first poem called "The state triumvirate", and G.C. Verplanck, the Epistles of Pindar Puff, the Prolegomena, etc. The state triumvirate (a satire on Thomas J. Oakley, attorney general of the state of N.Y. in 1819) was first published seperately under title "Dick Shift: a political tale"

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Table of contents: title: Prolegomena / by Scriblerus Busby; title: Excursus concerning the Elaphokertoi, or Bucktails, mentioned by Pindar Puff, and other modern poets, and alluded to in the foregoing Prolegomena / by Scriblerus Busby; title: Preface to The state triumvirate; title: The state triumvirate, to G. C. V; title: -,esq.; title: Notes to The state triumvirate; title: The first [to third] epistle of Brevet Major Pindar Puff; title: Notes; title: The Clintonians; title: Dialogue; title: Postlegomena; title: Appendix