The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Dead Letter

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Alternate Title: The Dead Letter. An American Romance
Subjects / Tags: California
Clairvoyants
Crimes of passion
Detective and mystery stories
Ghost stories
Haunted places
Murder
Peekskill (N.Y.)
Postal service
Unclaimed mail
Notes: "This story was published elsewhere two years before it appeared in Beadle's Monthly. Later it was modified to give it an English setting and suggest that it was written by an English novelist, and was published without permission of the author by Cassell, Potter and Galpin in their Illustrated Paper."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams

Chimney Corner Series (Lupton) edition

Beadle's Dime Novels edition

(source: NIU Libraries)
Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: Beadle's Dime Novels no. 87 (chapters I-III, pages 101-116)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885 (uncredited)
Date: November 29, 1865

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 1 no. 1 (part I: chapters I-IV, pages 8-27)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: January, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 1 no. 2 (part I: chapters V-VI, pages 105-122)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: February, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 1 no. 3 (part I: chapters VII-VIII, pages 212-225)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: March, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 1 no. 4 (part I: chapters IX-X, pages 309-327)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: April, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 1 no. 5 (part I: chapters XI-XIII, pages 399-420)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: May, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 1 no. 6 (part II: chapters I-II, pages 501-515)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: June, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 2 no. 1 (part II: chapters III-IV, pages 21-32)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: July, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 2 no. 2 (part II: chapters V-VII, pages 116-130)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: August, 1866

Beadle's Monthly edition

(source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)
Online Full Text: Digital Library @ Villanova University
Series: Beadle's Monthly v. 2 no. 3 (part II: chapters VIII-X (conclusion), pages 193-205)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: September, 1866

Popular Fifty Cent Books edition

Series: Popular Fifty Cent Books no. 1
Item: The Dead Letter. An American Romance
Author: Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885)
Date: September 15, 1866
Description: "The story was first published by Beadle as a serial in Beadle's Monthly, then in the fifty cent edition issued September 15, 1866. However, even in serial form it was not an original publication, for, as Beadle himself said, it had appeared elsewhere two years previously. In book form, the second edition appeared October 10, the fourth November 27, and the sixth January 9, 1869. In 1869, it was also reprinted as a serial in The Illuminated Western World. A duodecimo edition was issued by Beadle & Co. in 1867. It had 120 pages, 6 illustrations, and was printed in a single column on good book paper."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams

Cheap Edition of Popular Authors edition

Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition

(source: NIU Libraries)
Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: Fireside Library of Popular Reading v. 4 no. 44 (parts I-II (conclusion), pages 1-46)
Item: The Dead Letter
Author: Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885
Date: November 7, 1878

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