Stokesiana : beynge a collectyone of trewe and wonderfulle sayynges, copyed frome owld manuscrypts dygged frome unde ye Contynental Inn.

A comic guide to Philadelphia, Pa., with literary advertisements for Chas. Stokes, clothier.

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Contributors: Stokes, Chas.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Philadelphia, Pa.] : [Charles Stokes], 1869.
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Table of Contents:
  • "To whom it may concern."
  • "Know thyself."
  • Stokesiana /
  • by a fellow, (not long)
  • Lines respectfully inscribed to Mr. George Francis Train, candidate for the next presidency
  • Mrs. Partington in town
  • The house that Jack built
  • Fond parient [sic] (examining his children in their Sunday school lessons)
  • The song of the anti-renter
  • The raid on our boarders
  • "Edgar," a poe(m!), showing how the hero was made "ravin."
  • An epistle from that complete letter writer, Mr. Naseby
  • Read! read!! read!!!
  • Advice, both seasonable and reasonable
  • The model railway clerk
  • "The law of the finger-ping."
  • What one sees on Chestnut Street
  • Interpretation of dreams
  • An eulogy, written on a city sidewalk, near "Stokes' Porches," /
  • by a poet Gray himself
  • (Letter.) newcastle delw. decr. 1969
  • The ready maid, a poem made-to-order
  • A Continental love story
  • View of Oil City /
  • from a photograph by Knight & Son
  • Ode to grease, after Pope, a good while
  • Some conundrums by an old bachelor
  • The model husband
  • Agents wanted
  • Vulgar errors.