WorkNathaniel Parker Willis

“Red Jacket, a Chief of the Indian Tribes, the Tuscaroras”

"Red Jacket, a Chief of the Indian Tribes, the Tuscaroras" (poem, c. 1835) Inferred

Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) · poem, c. 1835

InferredPoem signed 'CASSIUS,' a known pen name of N. Willis for secular verse; poem depicts Red Jacket, the Seneca chief, in the same manner as Willis's published poetry on Native American subjects; no individual author line is printed. The poem is printed and glued into the notebook on page 2, in three columns alongside two other pieces.

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Documented 1835

Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1844

1846

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Poems, Others

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“Thou were monarch born! Tradition's pages / Tell not the planting of thy parent tree; / But that the forest tribes have bent for ages, / To thee and to thy sires, the subject knee.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Poems, Others." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

Inferred Poem signed 'CASSIUS,' a known pen name of N. Willis for secular verse; poem depicts Red Jacket, the Seneca chief, in the same manner as Willis's published poetry on Native American subjects; no individual author line is printed. The poem is printed and glued into the notebook on page 2, in three columns alongside two other pieces.