Captain Basil Hall


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Sections:  Biography    Criticism    Bibliography


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(Born: December 31, 1788 - Died: September 11, 1844)

British naval officer, traveller and author. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and died in Portsmouth, England. His best work is considered to be Fragments of Voyages and Travels (1831-1833).

 

  • Review of Patchwork
    • Review of Patchwork (April 1841, text “A” — Graham’s)
    • (Excerpt) Marginalia item CLXXXV  (1850, text “B” — Works)   (In the original this item is misnumbered as CLXXXIV.)

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  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
  • Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 3:37

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