The yarn of a Yankee privateer
By: edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne ; introduction by Clifford Smyth.
Contributors: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.; Smyth, Clifford, b. 1866.
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Co.
Published: 1926
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Dartmoor Prison; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Personal narratives; United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Prisoners and prisons
Genres: Personal narratives.
Notes: Originally published, except one instalment, in "The United States magazine and Democratic review," January to September, 1846. The running title given to the serial was "Papers of an old Dartmoor prisoner, edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne." The unpublished instalment was found in manuscript among Hawthorne's papers.

Authorship attributed to Benjamin Frederick Browne, and to John Lord, brother of Hawthorne's grandmother, Miriam Lord Manning.

For discussion of authorship, see the Literary digest for April 9, 1927.

"Gift, January 2008"