the Second American Slavist

[E. Wayles Browne]

forwarded to the list with Jan Perkowski's permission:
>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 12:41:40 -0500
>To: ewb2 at cornell.edu (E Wayles Browne)
>From: "Jan L. Perkowski" <perkowski at virginia.edu>
>Subject: the Second American Slavist
>
>Dear Wayles,
>
>I just read your birthday  salute to TALVJ and I suspect that she is our
>second Slavist. Since I have a copy of her l850 work, I checked her Preface
>and she states there that the book is based on an 1834 essay. I have had in
>my hands another volume on the Slavs printed in New England in the early
>1830's by another author, whose name I can't recall right off, and I
>suspect that it appeared before her article. It seems that an influx of
>emigres from the Polish rebellion of 1830 caused some general interest in
>the Slavs.
>
>All the best,
>
>Jan
>
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