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James Brooks
(Born: November 10, 1810 - Died: April 30, 1873)
American stateman, journalist and author. Along with Seba Smith, Brooks sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of “Major Jack Downing.”
- Notice from “Autography”
- “James Brooks” (“Autography” - part I) — February 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
- “Jack Downing” (“Autography” - part II) — August 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
- “James Brooks” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
- “Jack Downing” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
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- Dictionary of American Biography, New York, James T. White & Co., 1929, 6:47 (with a vignette portrait)
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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