The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, or the inmate of a gloomy prison. With the Mysteries and Miseries of the New York House of Reffuge and Auburn Prison Unmasked...

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Description

Title: The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, or the inmate of a gloomy prison. With the Mysteries and Miseries of the New York House of Reffuge and Auburn Prison Unmasked...
Creator: Reed, Austin, 1823?-
Published / Created: circa 1858
Description: MS note in ink and pencil
Notebook and first gathering foliated consecutively.
One quarto notebook and two sewn folio gatherings of 44 pages each housed in two folders.
Some errors in foliation.
Title revised and pasted in inside front cover of notebook.
Extent: 20 x 16 cm. (4to) notebook; 30 x 19.2 cm. folio gathering; 32.3 x 20 cm. folio gathering
304 p.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: JWJ MSS 71
Container / Volume: Folders 1-2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Genre: Autobiographies
Diaries
Manuscripts
Notebooks
Subject (Name): House of Refuge (New York, NY)
Subject (Topic): African American prisoners--New York (State)
Juvenile delinquents --New York (State) --New York
Prison discipline--United States--History--19th century
Prison life--New York (State)--19th century
Reformatories --New York (State) --New York

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 8866184
Object ID (OID): 2050043