Pleas send me a copy of this article. Thank you. Joy Durrett From: [email protected] Date: 2004/06/05 Sat AM 07:23:40 PDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOWNING] Major Jack Downing - March 17, 1834 I also forgot to mention that elsewhere on the same page is another article which mentions a letter threatening the assassination of Major Downing. This item can be found in the 5th column, with the heading: TRANSLATION. ==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe in list mode send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject to [email protected] To unsubscribe in digest mode send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject to [email protected]

Here is a picture of Major Jack Downing from the Library of Congress. http://loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/DisplayCartoonMedium.asp?MaxID=4 2&UniqueID=18&Year=1833&YearMark=1830 In case you haven't figured it out yet, "Major Jack Downing" was a FICTIONAL character. from: "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21). VOLUME XVI. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. XIX. Early Humorists. § 5. Seba Smith; "Jack Downing" First in point of time among the new humorists came Seba Smith (1792-1868), whose Letters of Major Jack Downing appeared in 1830. Almost immediately after his graduation from Bowdoin College in 1818, Smith began to contribute a series of political articles in the New England dialect to the papers of Portland, Maine. These illustrated fairly well the peculiarities of New England speech and manners, and doubtless had a great influence in encouraging similar sketches in other parts of the country. Smith was in several ways a pioneer. He led the way for The Biglow Papers and all those writings which have exploited back-country New England speech and character. He anticipated, in the person of Jack Downing, confidant of Jackson, David Ross Locke's Petroleum V. Nasby, confidant of Andrew Johnson. He was the first in America, as Finley Peter Dunne, with his Mr. Dooley, is the latest, to create a homely character and through him to make shrewd comments on politics and life. Charles Augustus Davis (1795-1867) of New York created a pseudo Jack Downing (often confused with Smith's) who was intimate with Van Buren and the National Bank in the thirties and with Lincoln in the sixties. " ++++++++++++++++++ From: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [DOWNING] Major Jack Downing - March 17, 1834 Pleas send me a copy of this article. Thank you. Joy Durrett From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DOWNING] Major Jack Downing - March 17, 1834 I also forgot to mention that elsewhere on the same page is another article which mentions a letter threatening the assassination of Major Downing. This item can be found in the 5th column, with the heading: TRANSLATION.