Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1678-9

4, 224 pp. Publisher's catalog bound in preceding text. Published anonymously by John Greenleaf Whittier, and presented as factual, albeit with a prefatory note stating there are 'occasional inaccuracies in respect to persons, places, and dates... [and] passages indicative of a comparatively recent origin, and calculated to case a shade of doubt over the entire narrative." EXCERPT: "Boston, May ye 8th, 1678. I remember I did promise my kind cousin Oliver, (whom I pray God to have always in his keeping,) when I parted with him nigh unto three Months ago, at mine uncle Grindall's, that, on coming to this new Countrie, I would, for his Sake and perusal, keep a little Journal of whatsoever did happen both unto myself and unto Those with whom I might sojourn; as also, some account of the Countrie and its Marvels, and mine own Cogitations thereon."