1852-53.
(See Chapter xviii.)
JIM WOLFE AND THE FIRE—Hannibal Journal. Burlesque of a rival editor in the Hannibal Journal.
1853.
(See Chapter xix.)
Wrote obituary poems—not published. Wrote first letters home.
1855-56.
(See Chapters xx and xxi.)
First after-dinner speech; delivered at a printers' banquet in Keokuk, Iowa. Letters from Cincinnati, November 16, 1856, signed “Snodgrass”—Saturday Post (Keokuk).
1857.
(See Chapter xxi.)
Letters from Cincinnati, March 16, 1857, signed “Snodgrass”—Saturday Post (Keokuk).
1858.
Anonymous contributions to the New Orleans Crescent and probably to St. Louis papers.