J. T. Wiswall papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0011

No requestable containers

Scope and Contents

The collection contains two small, leather notebooks. One contains the handwritten manuscript "The African" and includes a bookplate identifying Caldwell Delaney as the owner. The other contains the handwritten manuscript "Iliad of the Family," as well as mathematical equations and scientific essays.

Dates

Creation: circa 1860

Creator

Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
Wiswall, J. T. (Author, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

None

Biographical / Historical

A Mobile, Alabama, author, J. T. Wiswall published two books, The Last Crusader in 1861 and Mr. Christopher Katydid (of Casconia) in 1864 (under the pseudonym Mark Heywood). The two handwritten manuscripts in this collection, "The African" and "Iliad of the Family," were never published, although they were listed in Robert E. Bell's Bibliography of Mobile, which noted that Mobile historian Caldwell Delaney held the manuscripts in his private collection.

Extent

0.2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Two notebooks, containing mathematical equations and scientific essays, as well as the handwritten manuscripts of J. T. Wiswall's works "The African" and "Iliad of the Family," neither of which were ever published.