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Title	Poems of Two Friends
Subject	Literary Ohio Poetry Poets
Place	Franklinton (Ohio) Columbus (Ohio) Franklin County (Ohio) North Bend (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	Poems of Two Friends contains early works by John James Piatt and William Dean Howells. The two men became friends while working on the Ohio State Journal in the early 1850s. Although the volume received some critical praise, it sold few copies and quickly went out of print. The book is 132 pages long and measures 4.5 by 7 inches (11.43 by 17.8 cm). John James Piatt (1835-1917) was born in Indiana and moved with his family to Franklinton, Ohio when he was six. He lived with his uncle in nearby Columbus, attended grammar classes at Capital University, and worked as a printer's devil at the Ohio State Journal. Piatt developed an interest in poetry and gained the attention of George Prentice, editor of the Louisville Journal. Prentice hired him as his secretary and published his poems in the Journal. Piatt served as a clerk in the department of the treasury starting in 1860. He and his wife Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt made their home in Georgetown, where both continued to write poetry. After the Civil War, Piatt was affiliated with Cincinnati newspapers and served as librarian of the House of Representatives. He also served a consul to Ireland. William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father, William Cooper Howells, was a printer and editor of the Hamilton Intelligencer. The younger Howells began working for the Ohio State Journal in 1858 and published his first novel in 1871. He later served as editor of The Atlantic Weekly. In his career Howells reportedly wrote nearly 40 novels and numerous short stories, poems, literary reviews, magazine articles, autobiographies, and biographies. Two of his best-known works are The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) and A Modern Instance (1881).
Creator	Piatt, John James, 1835-1917 Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Date of Original	1860
Collection	John James Piatt Poetry Collection
Source	Published material PS 2578 P7
Submitting Institution	Ohio State University Rare Books
Type	Text

Title	Om1063_1056110_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1063_1056110_001.tif
Image Height	2868
Image Width	1805
File Size	82.232 KB
Full Text	POEMS TWO FEIENDS COLUMBUS: yOLLETT, POSTER AND COMPAXT. 1860.

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