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100 1 $aSmith, Seba,$d1792-1868.$0(NOBLE)40633
245 14 $aThe life and writings of Major Jack Downing :$b[pseud.] of Downingville, away down East in the State of Maine /$cWritten by himself.
260 $aBoston :$bLilly, Wait, Colman & Holden,$c1833.
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500 $a"Originally pub. in the Portland daily courier, Jan. 18, 1830-1833."--Allibone.
500 $aFull text available from the Internet Archive.
520 $aSeba Smith (September 14, 1792 - July 28, 1868) was an American humorist and writer. He was married to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, also a major writer and feminist. Born in Buckfield, Maine, Smith graduated from Bowdoin College in 1818 and then lived in Portland, Maine. He edited various papers including the Eastern Argus and then founded the Portland Courier and edited it from 1830 to 1837. He was one of the first writers to use American vernacular in humor. His series with the New England character Major Jack Downing was popular after its start in 1830. Under date of November 26, 1833, John Quincy Adams records in his diary an encounter with Colonel David Crockett, newly returned to Congress, whom he quotes as saying that he (Crockett) "had taken for lodgings two rooms on the first floor of a boarding-house, where he expected to pass the winter and to have for a fellow-lodger Major Jack Downing, the only person in whom he had any confidence for information of what the Government was doing." Diary (New York: Longmans, Green, 1929), p. 445. His dry, satirical humor influenced other 19th century humorists, including Artemus Ward and Finley Peter Dunne. He is also credited as being a forerunner of other American humorists like Will Rogers.
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