| Uniform title | Poor Sarah |
| Portion of title |
Poor Sarah |
| Variant title |
Indian woman |
| Series |
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Publications of the American Tract Society ; no. 128. UNAUTHORIZED
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| General note | Cover title. At head of title: No. 128. |
| General note | Attributed to Phoebe H. Brown in "Sketch of the origin and character of the principal series of tracts of the American Tract Society" in American tract magazine (Nov., 1831). Sometimes attributed to Elias Boudinot, who translated "Poor Sarah" into Cherokee in 1833. |
| General note | "Poor Sarah" first appeared in the Religious intelligencer (New Haven) January 1-8, 1820. It was reprinted in the Boston recorder March 11, 1820, and was issued as a tract by several publishers during the same year. |
| General note | The American Tract Society was located at 144 Nassau St. from 1827 to 1832. |
| General note | Title vignette signed: P [i.e., Harlan Page?]. Caption to vignette is a quotation from p. 6. |
| General note | Variant states. One copy in hand has the following pieces printed on p. [2-3] of wrapper: "The tract 'Poor Sarah' remembered in death," "Influence of the tract 'Poor Sarah' on a numerous family," and "Tract 'Poor Sarah' blessed to a physician." Pages [2-3] of the wrapper of another copy are blank. |
| General note | Page [4] of wrapper, one copy in hand, numbered 10. Page [4] of wrapper of another copy bears the phrase, "12 pages" at its head. |
| General note | "Lines composed on hearing that Sarah was dead."--p. [4] of wrapper. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society. |
