![[MAINE] Autobiographical Sketch of the Life of Nathaniel Dunn ... Born Poland, Province of Maine, January 29, 1800. Died 3 Bank Street, New York, October 17, 1889.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/994/1578994.jpg?itok=Z0V2nZDv)
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[MAINE] Autobiographical Sketch of the Life of Nathaniel Dunn ... Born Poland, Province of Maine, January 29, 1800. Died 3 Bank Street, New York, October 17, 1889.
[Privately printed:] "Copied during 1928 by Marjorie Dunn from the original manuscript in the posession of her father Cleveland Arthur Dunn. Re-typed and duplicated by Gano Dunn, New York, October 28, 1939." Labeled "Copy No. 19" (of 30) in manuscript at front. Original cloth gilt lettered on the cover. 11 x 8 inches (27 x 21 cm); 80 pages. Light soiling to cloth.
The interesting first person memoir of inventor, professor, and author of the poem Satan Chained, Nathaniel Dunn (1800-1889). Dunn's papers are held by Bowdoin, and their website provides this biography: "[Dunn] graduated from Bowdoin College Medical School in 1825, the same year as Hawthorne and Longfellow, and received advanced degrees from Brown (1828) and Bowdoin (1842). In 1827, Dunn married Charlotte L. Tillinglast (1804-39), with whom he had five children; three of whom died young. In 1841, two years after the death of his first wife, Dunn married Judith Elizabeth Rogers (ca. 1807-69), and they had three children; one of whom died young. Dunn was offered an opportunity by Judge Ruggles of Thomaston to study law under him, which he declined in favor of a teaching position at Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts (1825-29), where he taught chemistry and natural philosophy. He opened a private school in New York in 1829, and remained there until becoming a merchant in Kingston, New York in 1835. In 1841, he opened a school in Tarrytown, New York and stayed there until 1844, when he was called to be principal of a seminary in Hampstead, New York. Dunn opened another school in New York in 1849. From 1856-71 he did a lecture tour on chemistry, including one at Rutgers College in New York. Dunn wrote and published a poem, "Satan Chained" (1864), which was later revised and published as "Satan Chained and Earth Redeemed" (1875). He also wrote various unpublished poems, of which two were "The Indian Girl" and "Superstition". Dunn was an abolitionist, and a friend of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison. In the last years of his life, he became reclusive, occupying most of his time with his books and his writing. He died in New York City, October 17, 1889." See https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/m051.shtml
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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