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Title: Jessie

or, trying to be somebody

Author: Walter Aimwell

Release date: February 16, 2025 [eBook #75385]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1858

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[Portrait of Jessie]
The Aimwell Stories BY Walter Aimwell Gould & Lincoln
The Aimwell Stories.

JESSIE;
OR,
TRYING TO BE SOMEBODY.

BY
WALTER AIMWELL,
AUTHOR OF “MARCUS,” “WHISTLER,” “ELLA,” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
BOSTON:
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
59 WASHINGTON STREET.
NEW YORK: SHELDON AND COMPANY.
CINCINNATI: GEO. S. BLANCHARD.
1870.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.