An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Letter from Professor Broadfellow

Broadfellow, B. "Letter from Professor Broadfellow." Vanity Fair, September 14, 1861, 129.
Type
magazine
Genre
letter to the editor
satire
Abstract

The professor enters his own attempt at a National Song. He uses algebraic theory to derive the structure, which he ultimately concedes would have been better in younger hands.