A Journal of the Adventures of Matthew Bunn. First Published it Providence, Rhode Island, in 1796.

Royal octavo, stiff gray wrappers, [viii] + 24 pp. Very Good. From Foreword: The only known copy of the first edition of A Journal of the Adventures of Matthew Bunn. Providence: Printed for the Author, and sold by him. [1793] was among the treasures forming the first part of the Collection of Mr. Everett D. Graff given to The Newberry Library in 1956. It is an important and richly admired addition to a library which is noted for its extensive collection of Indian captivities. The existence of the edition had been assumed for many years, but until the Graff copy was found and identified, it was only a myth. Matthew Bunn was not a polished writer and for this we should probably be thankful. Had he been induced to let a professional writer tell his story or had he been urged to submit to the rigors of editorial supervision, his tale might have been elegant, pious, and only vicariously gruesome, as were so many other works of this sort. The first edition of the Journal appears to be Bunn's own production and and he tells a simple, direct tale as he remembered it. He reveals himself as a not wholly estimable character, but as R. W. G. Vail observed, "A stout fellow!" United States History, U. S. History, American Biography, Native American, American Indian, Captivity yslic.…