Old Friends and Lost Loves in a Five Act Tale
A long narrative weaves poetry of enduring friendship with a dramatic London to Boston plot about marriage, fortune, and a guardian’s schemes. A carpenter named James Tudor and a wealthy heiress navigate deception, elopement, and a ministerial wedding, ending in a legitimate union and the heiress reclaiming her fortune. The piece closes with moralizing verses on groaning and solace, plus a comic Detroit Free Press extract on social fools and Dodo types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Ward
Supercargo Owley
Jas. Tudor
Ile
Tudor
Boston
Orient Sailor Bride Arrives Aboard the Orient
After the American Revolution James Tudor sails from Boston on the Orient bound for Smyrna. A young, wealthy, frightened woman suddenly boards at dawn asking if the captain Ward is single or married, then seeks a private audience aboard the ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
James Tudor
Owley Yonder
Tudor
Owley
Denar
Steele
Addison
Sarah Faber
Orient
Smyrna
Levant
Luok
Tie
Ward
Dado and tales of village mischief told in verse
A fragment from a Boston Transcript page presents humorous sketches and moralizing vignettes. It features a child asking about a Dodo like creature and a series of humorous dialogues about courting, marriage, and domestic life. The tone mimics a Sunday school lesson with rural newspaper humor and social commentaries.
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United States
Oax Hart
America
All Is
New Repository
R. S. Fountain
A. W. Fountain & Son
Brewster & Co
New York
Wood
Dayton
Fountain
Easton, Md
Gho. F. Sloan & Bro
Light Street Wharf
Greensborough
Greensboro
Maryland
W. H. Cohee
Willis
R. R
Carrollton Hotel
Baltimore, Light and
Baltimore Maryland
F. W Coleman
COR
Hanover and
Pratt Sts
Baltimore, MD
Clarendon
J. F. Darrow
Occidental Hotel
New York City
European Hotel
Corner Railroad Ave
Washington St
G. W. W. Haddaway
I. Albertson
N. W. Cor
St. Paul and Fayette Streets
Baltimore
J.C. Norris, Propri'tor
Cerwin
St. Jacobs
A. Vogeler & CO
S. Clogg & Son
GEO. S. Clogg & Son
West
Baltimore Street
Carrollton Hole
Baalirimonry
Stocix
Caroline County
Atn Palace
the Mutual Life Insurance CO
Agricultural Insurance CO
Watertown
N. Y
Rochester German Fire Insurance CO
Peoples’ Mutual Live Stock Insurance CO
Balto
Chlas. A. Dunning
Denton
H. Blackiston & Son
Philadelphia
E. J. Whitman
Whitman
Ife
Gratiot Avenue
Chicago
Detroit Free Press
Bill Arpon
Tye
Lange
J. Y. Frizzell
Ating Worrcay
P.O. Dox
the Falsh Guardian
Jie
Simon
Chile
Mrs. Brown
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