Item - The Dead Letter - The Dime Novel Bibliography

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(Beadle's Dime Novels edition - source: NIU Libraries)

(Beadle's Monthly edition - source: Digital Library @ Villanova University)

(Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition - source: NIU Libraries)

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Online Full Text:	Digital Library @ Villanova University (Beadle's Monthly edition) Northern Illinois University (Beadle's Dime Novels edition) Northern Illinois University (Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition) To see all 11 full text links, switch to Edition View.
Series:	Beadle's Dime Novels — no. 87 — chapters I-III, pages 101-116 Beadle's Monthly — v. 1 no. 1 — part I: chapters I-IV, pages 8-27 Beadle's Monthly — v. 1 no. 2 — part I: chapters V-VI, pages 105-122 Beadle's Monthly — v. 1 no. 3 — part I: chapters VII-VIII, pages 212-225 Beadle's Monthly — v. 1 no. 4 — part I: chapters IX-X, pages 309-327 Beadle's Monthly — v. 1 no. 5 — part I: chapters XI-XIII, pages 399-420 Beadle's Monthly — v. 1 no. 6 — part II: chapters I-II, pages 501-515 Beadle's Monthly — v. 2 no. 1 — part II: chapters III-IV, pages 21-32 Beadle's Monthly — v. 2 no. 2 — part II: chapters V-VII, pages 116-130 Beadle's Monthly — v. 2 no. 3 — part II: chapters VIII-X (conclusion), pages 193-205 Cheap Edition of Popular Authors — no. 7 The Chimney Corner Series (Lupton) — no. 100 Fireside Library of Popular Reading — v. 4 no. 44 — parts I-II (conclusion), pages 1-46 Popular Fifty Cent Books — no. 1
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
Authors:	Regester, Seeley, 1831-1885 (pseudonym used by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885) (Beadle's Monthly edition; Cheap Edition of Popular Authors edition; Popular Fifty Cent Books edition) Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885 (Chimney Corner Series (Lupton) edition; Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition)
Dates:	November 29, 1865 (Beadle's Dime Novels edition) January, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) February, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) March, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) April, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) May, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) June, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) July, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) August, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) September, 1866 (Beadle's Monthly edition) September 15, 1866 (Popular Fifty Cent Books edition) November 15, 1875 (Cheap Edition of Popular Authors edition) November 7, 1878 (Fireside Library of Popular Reading edition)
Edition Description:	Popular Fifty Cent Books edition: "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
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

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