ジョン・ジェイ・スミスを探して (4)――著作目録 Going after John Jay Smith: Bibliography of Smith's Work [Marginalia 余白に]
前の前の前の前の前の記事「ポーが書評した本 (14) 『万国著名裁判』 (1835) Books Reviewed by Poe (14): _Celebrated Trials of all Countries_ (1835)」で名前が出たジョン・ジェイ・スミスを探して書いてきました。ポー学者のポーリンは、「フィラデルフィアの法曹界のひとり」という匿名の著者を [George H. Borrow] と補っている（Burton Pollin and Josephh V. Ridgely, ed., Writings in The Southern Literary Messenger (New York: Gordian, 1997) ）のだけれど、Internet Archive は John Jay Smith (1798-1881) を著者としていたのでした。その典拠はCohen, M.L. のBibliography of Early American Law という文献目録にあるらしい。コーエンの本が日本の図書館にあるか、は、なんたらキャットを見ればわかります。・・・・・・むかし「June 24 おおカリフォルニア！(4) おおスザンナ！ (4) Oh! California Oh! Susanna」で書いたように、WorldCat.org はある本が世界のどこの図書館にあるかを教えてくれるとても便利な検索です。ううむ。・・・・・・
ま、いまはカリフォルニアではなくて日本にいるのだし、本を見に行くのは後日のこととして、 ジョン・ジェイ・スミス自身の回想録をヴァーチャルに手に取ることにしました。
[Elizabeth P. Smith, ed.] Recollections of John Jay Smith: Written by Himself. Privately Printed. Philadelphia: Press of J. B. Lippincott Company, 1892. <http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924003453960#page/n11/mode/2up>
目次を見てから、中をパラパラと踊りながら読んでみたのです、日曜の午後。自伝的にさまざまなエピソードが語られているだけでなく、フィラデルフィアがらみでいろいろな人々や、自らの家系、新しい風物についての回顧的文章、また、付録としてジョン・スミスの財産目録や死後の新聞・雑誌記事や手紙など、娘の編集によって、豊富な内容となっています。このブログ記事の最後に目次を載せて参照できるようにしたいと思います。
家系についてと、（問題の）著作について、だけ、該当ページを直接貼っておきます。
当時は生後まもなくや幼時に死んでしまうことがよくあったようで、4人生まれた娘のなかで生き残ったのはこの本を編んだエリザベスだけだったのでした。ジョン・ジェイ・スミスは死んだ子供たちのそれぞれを追悼する文章を残し、また、孫娘が亡くなったときの痛切な文章は付録のなかに入っています。
そして自分の著述については "Authorship" の見出しで、今日もリプリント版が出ている、Alliborne の Dictionary of Authors の記載を引き、その後の著作を自ら追加して記述していました。――
問題の本、すなわち、『サザン・リテラリー・メッセンジャー』誌でとりあげられた 『万国著名裁判』 Celebrated Trials of all Countries (1835) は、222ページの "Editor of" とされた一連の作品のなかに、"Celebrated Trials, 1836, 8vo." として、確かに入っていました（見やすいように上の下のページの一部を拡大）。――
そのつぎには、"Animal Magnetism: Report of Dr. Franklin, with additions, 1837, 8vo" が挙がっていて、へぇー、そんな本も出していたんだ、と感心したのでした。〔『カリフォルニア時間』で動物磁気説について出てくる記事参照〕
地の文での言及は、189から190ページにありました。――
ROBERT WALSH AND SON.
The death of Robert M. Walsh, a few days before this is written, recalls a valued friend, Robert Walsh, his father, with whom I had very intimate and pleasant relations. He was consul-general in Paris in 1845, filling that office with great credit to the country. Mr. Walsh, the elder, was eminently literary in his tastes. When the great struggle for the extension of slavery in Missouri agitated this whole country, the National Gazette was established to oppose a further extension. Walsh's friends made him the editor, and a very pleasant semi-political newspaper was the result. Its literary character was the attraction to me. I remember subscribing to it at the instigation of Roberts Vaux, who successfully went round with the subscription paper. After entering on the library duties, I was made free of Mr. Walsh's editorial rooms, which were the large chambers of the great old Willing mansion, at the corner of Third Street and Willing's Alley, the publication office being near by in Second Street.
The opportunity of free intercourse with this gentleman gave zest to my literaiy studies and pursuits, and put me in training for employment by the booksellers, who were in the habit of getting me to pass many books through the press, write prefaces adapting them to America, or making up whole volumes. In this way I remember many profitable literary operations, as the compiling, from other works, of "Celebrated Trials of all Countries," published by Carey & Hart. This friendship prepared me for conducting "Waldie's Library" and many other literary ventures, while in the absences of Mr. Walsh I wrote the editorials of the Gazette.
ということで、著者（編者だけれど）確定です。 そして、それは、「フィラデルフィアの法曹界のひとりが選んだ」 "selected by a Member of the Philadelphia Bar" という匿名編者の記載が実は虚偽であったということに、どうやら、なります。
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目次 CONTENTS
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
My Motive in Writing — Birth and Parentage — Memoir of my Grandfather, his
Noble Character, by the Historian Samuel Smith — My Father and Mother —
Impressions of Childhood — My Eldest Sister's Reminiscences of our Early
Life — Our Home at Green Hill, New Jersey — Fanning my Original Desti-
nation — My Grandmother, Margaret Morris — Her Life of Piety and Trial —
My School-Days in Burlington ........ 1
CHAPTER II.
My Father's Sisters — John Cox and the Dillwyns — The Family and Social
Circle at Burlington — Remarkable Characteristics — Some of Many Descend-
ants — Visitors from the Outside World — My First Ride on Horseback —
Sally Logan Smith (Roberts) and her Descendants — Young City Madcaps —
An Old Family Seamstress ........ 17
CHAPTER III.
Domestic Helpers — Hannah Clarke — My First Appearance as Groomsman —
Helping at a Well-Digging — A Colored Family — Naming a Baby........ 26
CHAPTER IV.
Family Harmony — English Correspondence : Wilberforce, Clarkson, etc. —
Life at Samuel Emlen's, West Hill — My Love of Books — Recreations with
Goose-Eggs and Young Ducks — Indians and Wild Deer — Career of the
Emlens — A Great Affliction — Old Families dying out ........ 29
CHAPTER V.
Our Pedigree again — My Burlington Amusements — Samuel Smith, the His-
torian — Samuel J. Smith, the Poet — Life at Hickory Grove — My Female
Cousins — Smith's Poems not known — A Literary Circle — The Changes at
Burlington — My Uncle Richard Hill Morris ........ 36
CHAPTER VI.
My Brother Richard — Family Incidents — His Religious Character — My Re-
ligious Opportunities — My Brother Morris, and my Sisters Margaret and
Rachel ........ 48
CHAPTER VII.
At Westtown School — Return to Burlington — An Apprentice to Strange
Masters — My Studies in Philadelphia! — My Old Teachers — Incidents of
Apprenticeship........ 58
CHAPTER VIII.
Travelling in those Days — Importing a Wife — Franklin Park — Up the Dela-
ware — More of Early Travelling — Politics and Canal Digging — A Cones-
toga Wagon Line — The Old Turnpikes — Curious Cotton Facts — James Ster-
ling, of Burlington ........ 65
CHAPTER IX.
War, and Fortifying the City — Captain Lawrence — Return of Peace — War
Prices — Arch Street Meeting —A Burlington Eccentric — Results of Peace —
My Mother's Removal to the City — Our City Associates — Going into Busi-
ness, and a Western Tour ........ 70
CHAPTER X.
Home — My Marriage— My Newspaper Career— Appointed Librarian —
Library Acquaintances, James Cox — Library Finances — My Resignation
Death of Children — Social Parties — Waldie's Library — My Course of Life
Waldie's Imitators — Laurel Hill Cemetery — Straw Paper ........ 90
PART II.
CHAPTER I.
The Quaker Governing Class........
CHAPTER II.
Retrospection— Value of Family History— Milcah Martha Moore— Her Legacy........ 111
CHAPTER III.
More Family History— The Duchess of Plaisance— An Uncommon Family ........ 117
CHAPTER IV.
People I have known........ 137
CHAPTER V.
PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN.
Chorley— Baring— Cobden-Dilke— Wilde — Granville— The Halls —Jenny
Lind—Sallandrous — Theatrical Experiences— Intercourse with Royalty-
Visit to Leopold— British Museum— Rennie & Ransom— Kew Gardens........ 154
CHAPTER VI.
A Man with Brains should be able to do Anything in Reason — My First
and Second European Tours — The Exposition of 1851: how conceived,
forwarded, and given up from ill health, etc. ...... 166
CHAPTER VII.
Granville John Penn — Stoke Park and Pennsylvania Castle — Oxford — Blen-
heim — The Last of the Penns, and their Final Story........ 177
CHAPTER VIII.
Elizabeth Fry, William Forster, the Gurneys — Abbott Lawrence — Worthy
American Diplomats — Madame Jumel — Faraday — Rank in England — Robert
Walsh and his Son — Judah Dobson — Christopher Hughes — Gerard Ralston........ 184
CHAPTER IX.
MORE OF PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN.
Deborah Logan — The Logan Law — The Dennie Club and Nicholas Biddle —
Judge Hopkinson; the Athenian Institute — Dr. Rose — Longfellow, Cooper,
Sparks — Members of the Athenian — Professor Nichol — Charles Wilson
Peale and Family ........... 201
PART III.
CHAPTER I.
Thoughts on the Decadence of the Families of the Early Settlers — More
of my Father ; his Conversational Powers — Franklin Park Again ; the Stag's
Escape — The Logans and Pleasantses of Virginia ; the St. Johns, offsets of
Lord Bolingbroke's Family; the Carters, etc. — Authorship — My Literary
Reminiscences — Map-making — Two Literary Anecdotes ........ 215
CHAPTER II.
CHANGES I HAVE SEEN, ETC.
James Logan and Benjamin Franklin — An Empress and her Family — A
Bonaparte ......... 227
CHAPTER III.
MORE CHANGES I HAVE SEEN.
Modes of Obtaining Light — The Tinder- Box — The Phosphorus Light — The
Friction Match — Wood and Coal — The First Coal Fire in Philadelphia —
Warming our Houses — The DagueiTeotype — Medicines and Medical Prac-
tice — My Grandmother the First Female Physician — Ornamental Trees;
Penn's Manor in Bucks — Improvements in Machinery and Clothing —
Riding in State ; Ice Not to be Had ; Ice-Cream Invented ; Ice Exported
to England — The Watering-Places — The Advantages of Travel ; How to
see Foreign Countries — Slavery — Ocean Steamers — Triumphs of the Nine-
teenth Century ........ 236
CHAPTER IV.
MORE PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN.
Thom, the Sculptor of Old Mortality — Corcoran, the Banker, and Alexander
H. Stephens — Dr. Nott and J. K. Teflt — The Gilpins, Horace Binney, John
Sergeant, Charles Chauncey — Bishop White — Downing, Henry Winthrop
Sargent, N. P. Willis, Lurman, Carroll, Ridgley — Richard S. Field, Com-
modore Stockton, Delancey Kane, Hunneywell — Charles Thomson — Bishop
White — Bishop Simpson — Elias Hicks, Jesse Kersey, Richard Jordan —
Arch Street Meeting-House and Burial-Ground ...... 254
CHAPTER V.
Ruschenberger — Dunglison — Isaac C. Jones — John M. Whitall — William
W. Longstreth — Stephen Girard — Henry Pratt — Bartram and his Garden —
Alexander Wilson and the Lawsons — Dr. Joseph Thomas — Rawlins and
Chambers — Warder — -Longworth — Hawes and Goldsmith's Writing-Desk —
Penn's Landing Celebrations ; Witticisms of Judge Peters and Dr. Chap-
man — A Personal Summary ......... 269
CHAPTER VI.
Two Characters — Moore the Undertaker, and Bogle the Professional Waiter........ 283
CHAPTER VII.
INSTITUTIONS WITH WHICH I HAVE BEEN CONNECTED.
Woodlawn Cemetery — Greenwood Cemetery — Fairmount Park and its Exten-
sion — The Girard Life and Trust — The Loganian Library ........ 290
PART IV.
CHAPTER I.
A Retired Life ; the Changes within Twenty Years — Our Germantown Home ;
Neighbors, Society, Correspondents, etc.— A Great Religious Void, and how
it was Filled— Turning to Better Books ; a Like Experience of my Father —
Temperance, Now and Aforetime ; What I know about it ........ 300
CHAPTER II.
Life at Germantown— My Third Trip to Europe— A Route Suggested— Intro-
duction to the Lloyd Family in England— Life of Lindley Murray ........ 306
CHAPTER III.
Our Golden Wedding ........
CHAPTER IV.
GATHERED FRAGMENTS.
Surgical Operation— Another Character of my Grandfather— John Quincy
Adams on Family History— Steam Line to Europe— The Rebellion........ 322
CHAPTER V.
FAMILY CONNECTIONS.
The Pembertons, Dillwyns, and Morrises — The Penn Plate — The Hills 327
CHAPTER VI.
The Gowrie Conspiracy and Logan; "Lives of the Lindsays" — Value of
Family History; Laurel Hill — The Dancing Assembly Money— Judge
Reed — The Chew Controversy — Judge Smythe's Estate— The Hill and
Franklin Papers — A French EmigrS and Lord Temple ; A Curious Story —
Chief Justice James Logan, of Stenton ; Morris and Smith Families........ 333
CHAPTER VII.
Post-Scriptum — The Death of my Wife — My only Daughter's Account of the
Illness of her Mother .......... 359
CHAPTER VIII.
My Wife's Ancestry — The Pearsalls, of Long Island — -Thomas Dobson, Isaac
Collins — Reminiscences of a Residence in New York when Pearl Street was
a Fashionable Neighborhood — Navigation and Locomotion before the Appli-
cation of Steam — Our Departed Children, Gulielma, Margaret Hill, and
Albanus ........ 377
CHAPTER IX.
Fourth Visit to Europe........ 386
Appendix ........ 389
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