First published in Providence, RI, in 1846, in 1000 copies only (approximately 900 of which sold in Rhode Island), with a different title and considerably less material. See Atwater Catalogue, I, 561, listing the 1856 first edition thus. Not in Cordasco in any edition. Not in any of the other usual references. With the ownership signature in blue pencil of Mark Hopkins, dated June 1860, on the front blank. This is Mark Hopkins, Jr. (1813-1878), one of the Big Four railroad barons who built the Central Pacific Railroad.