“The first number of ‘The Echo’ appeared in ‘The American Mercury,’ at Hartford, in August, 1791. It was written at Middletown, by Richard Alsop and Theodore Dwight. The authors, at the time of writing it, had no expectation of its being published. Their sole object was to amuse themselves and a few of their personal friends. The general account of its origin and design is given in the preface to the volume, in which the numbers were afterward collected and published in New York. With the exception of a few lines written by Drs. Mason F. Cogswell and Elihu H. Smith, and a part of one or two numbers by Dr. Lemuel Hopkins, the entire work was the production of Messrs. Alsop and Dwight. Judge Trumbull never wrote a line in it.”—C. W. Everest, Poets of Connecticut.
An Eclogue, occasioned by the death of the Rev. Alexander Cummings. See [Belknap, Jeremy].
Eggleston, George Cary. American war ballads and lyrics. A collection of the songs and ballads of the Colonial wars, the Revolution, the War of 1812-15, the war with Mexico and the Civil war. Edited by George Cary Eggleston. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889. xiv p., 1 l., 278 p., 1 pl. 16º.
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Eleazar. In obitum viri verè reverendi D. Thomæ Thacheri, qui ad Dom. ex hac vitâ migravit, 18, 8, 1678. (In: Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana. London, 1702. 4º. Book 3, p. 153.)
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Composed by Eleazar, an Indian youth who was then a student at Harvard.
Reprinted in later editions of the Magnalia Christi Americana, as follows: Hartford, 1820, v. 1, p. 448; Hartford, 1855, v. 1, p. 496.
Text in Latin and English.
Elegiac ode, sacred to the memory of General [Nathanael] Greene. (In: The American museum. Philadelphia, 1788. 8º. v. 4, p. 386-388.)