July 14th, 2011
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THOMPSON, John Reuben (1823-1873) Southern poet and editor. In 1847 Thompson, with the help of his father, purchased the Southern Literary Messenger and at age twenty-four became editor, of a distinguished Southern magazine. In 1860 he left the Southern Literary Messenger and for a short time served as editor of the Southern Field and Fireside in Augusta, Georgia. When the War Between the States began, Thompson served as assistant secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia and edited the The Richmond Record and The Southern Illustrated News. He was also a contributor to The Index (the Confederacy's British publication). When failing health forced him to surrender his editorial duties, he ran the blockade and spent the remainder of the War in England, becoming The Index's chief writer. After the war he served as literary editor of William Cullen Bryant's New York Evening Post. Imprint “Mr. Hunter’s Oration. Opening Ode and Oration, Delivered at the Inauguration of Crawford’s Equestrian State of Washington, Richmond, Va., 22 February, 1858.” inscribed in ink “with the kind regards of Jno. R: Thompson.” Richmond, MacFarlane & Fergusson, 1858. Very good.
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