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Drayton: A Story of American Life (Classic Reprint)
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Not begun repeated the haughty customer, with a frown. I intend to start for the city to-morrow, and want them.
I told you when you ordered them, that, owing to the amount of work on hand, they could not be done before next Saturday, said Drayton, mildly.
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(Drayton. A Story of American Life. This book, "Drayton. A...)
Drayton. A Story of American Life. This book, "Drayton. A Story of American Life", by Thomas Hopkins Shreve, is a replication of a book originally published before 1851. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
Thomas Hopkins Shreve was an American writer and editor.
Background
Thomas Hopkins Shreve was born on December 17, 1808 in Alexandria, Virginia, the only son of Thomas and Ann (Hopkins) Shreve. On his father's side he was descended from a Thomas Sheriff (Shreve), who first appears in the records of a suit at law in New England in 1641, and who headed a line of Shreves numerous and prominent in colonial New Jersey. His grandfather, Caleb Shreve, served in the New Jersey assembly during and after the Revolution. His granduncle, Israel Shreve, father of Henry Miller Shreve, was a colonel in Washington's army. His mother, who died in 1815, was closely related to Johns Hopkins, founder of the Johns Hopkins University. Both Shreves and Hopkinses were Quakers.
Education
Shreve was educated in Alexandria and in Trenton, New Jersey, to which his father, after the failure of his calico mills, removed in 1821.
Career
About 1830 he followed his father and sisters to Cincinnati, where they had gone in 1827. There he promptly entered upon a literary career in which he was associated with the literary pioneers of Cincinnati: William Davis Gallagher, James Handasyd Perkins, Otway Curry, James B. Marshall, and others. With Gallagher he published the Cincinnati Mirror, 1833-35, and in 1835 his own firm, T. H. Shreve and Company, brought out the first five numbers of a Unitarian magazine, the Western Messenger.
Until the spring of 1836 he and Gallagher edited the Cincinnati Mirror, begun in 1831. For the Mirror he wrote about thirty essays, tales, and sketches, and a dozen poems. His essays and poems appeared also in the Western Messenger, 1835; the Western Literary Journal and Monthly Review, 1836; the Western Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 1837; the Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, 1837-38; the Hesperian, 1838-39; and the Western Literary Journal and Monthly Magazine, 1844.
In 1838, with a brother-in-law, Joshua B. Bowles, he established in Louisville, Kentucky, the wholesale dry goods firm of Bowles, Shreve & Company, but he continued his contributions to magazines.
Two years later he gave up his interest in an agricultural warehouse - the partnership with Bowles had been previously dissolved - to become assistant editor of George Dennison Prentice's powerful newspaper, the Louisville Daily Journal, a position he held until his death from tuberculosis. His work on the Louisville Journal won him the high esteem of Prentice and other editors of his day. He made a collection of his essays which never appeared in book form, though parts of it were published in the Knickerbocker; he also wrote "Betterton: A Novel, " unpublished, and Drayton: A Story of American Life (1851). He died in Louisville and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Achievements
His best work is to be found in his genial and lively essays, often Addisonian in style and content. Drayton, while it reflects something of the life of the latter eighteenth century and the current social and political cleavages, is better proof of his ability as an essayist than as a novelist.
Some of his few fugitive poems show native poetical capacity which was never fully developed. Though his contemporaries regarded him as a highly gifted writer whose talents would gain him an important place in western American letters, he is most interesting as a member of the group that brought Cincinnati and Louisville cultural recognition during the early decades of the nineteenth century.
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Connections
On April 16, 1840, he was married to Octavia Bullitt, daughter of Benjamin Bullitt, of Louisville, who survived him for many years; they had three daughters, all of whom died unmarried.
