The Country Postman

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Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 3 19:487, 288, 2 May 1863.

First line

A day of sullen, smothering heat

Authorship

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Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as Walter Thornbury, with payment of 10s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 6697

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