DIABOLOU MACHIA; OR BATTLE OF DRAGON caption title
1875WRCLIT72133Durham CT: Printed for Walter Chauncey Fowler 1875. 4pp. Folded leaflet 24 x 15 cm. Faint tanning at edges minor smudges but very good or better. A contemporary account in verse of an altercation during the Fall term of 1815 involving Yale students at a tavern in Dragon now Fair Haven Heights. Hill read the poem at a meeting of the Scientific Club and sixty years later after his death his classmate W.C. Fowler caused it to be printed with the final page turned over to a densely set explanatory "Note." Hill published at least two volumes of verse during his lifetime was anthologized by E.C. Stedman and edited an anthology of British poets. The publisher William Chauncey Fowler 1793 -1881 was Noah Webster's son-in-law and led a full life as educator pastor author and lexicographer. OCLC/Worldcat which reports an erroneous death date for Fowler locates four copies: Yale AAS Princeton and Brown. OCLC: 28243710. Printed for Walter Chauncey Fowler unknown books
