Poor Peter Jarvis' request
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49506
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1800
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: New Year -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Notes: New Year's verse of eighteen lines; first lines: Dear friends behold me here once more, a humble suppliant at your door

Other verses by Jarvis, held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and dated [1798] and [1799], are recorded by Evans 33933 and Evans 35663. All are presumably by Peter Jarvis, "a man of color," who died at Boston in 1809; cf. the May 24, 1809, issue of the Columbian centinel

Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 14.2 x 10.0 cm

Not in Evans or Bristol

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