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One of twenty-five copies printed.
The first published metrical effusion relating to America, by one who had lived in America.
Original title-page reads: Nevves from Virginia. The lost flocke triumphant. With the happy arriual of that famous and worthy knight Sr. Thomas Gates: and the well reputed and valiant captaine Mr. Christopher Newporte, and others, into England. With the maner of their distresse in the Iland of Deuils (otherwise called Bemoothawes) where they remayned 42. weekes, and builded two pynaces, in which they returned into Virginia. By R. Rich, gent., one of the voyage. London Printed by Edw: Allde, and are to be solde by Iohn Wright, at Christ-Church dore. 1610.
Also printed in Stedman and Hutchinson, Library of American literature. New York, 1889, v. 1, p. 22-24, NBB.
Richards, George, d. 1814. The Declaration of Independence; a poem: accompanied by odes, songs, &c. Adapted to the day. By a citizen of Boston [i.e., George Richards]. Printed at Boston [by Isaiah Thomas and E. T. Andrews]. Faust’s Statue, No. 45, Newbury Street, mdccxciii. 2 p.l, (1)6-24 p. 12º.
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Library also has one of 50 copies reprinted, New York, 1870, in NBH p.v. 26, no. 5.
The Declaration of Independence is reprinted in Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American poetry, Boston, 1829, v. 2, p. 28-31, NBH.
—— Elegiac ode, sacred to the memory of General Greene. (In: American poems, selected and original. Litchfield, 1793. 12º. p. 201-205.)