title: Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
author:  James Fenimore Cooper 
description: James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789  September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he owned. Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and, in his later years, contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society, but was expelled for misbehavior.
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  # Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
  
  
  ### James Fenimore Cooper
  
  
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      This etext was prepared by Hugh Mac Dougall jfcooper@wpe.com
  
  
  {This text has been transcribed, corrected, and annotated from its original
  periodical appearance in Graham's Magazine (Jan.-Apr. 1843), by Hugh C.
  MacDougall, Secretary of the James Fenimore Cooper Society (jfcooper@wpe.com),
  who welcomes corrections or emendations.}
  
  
  {Introductory Note: "Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief" was James
  Fenimore Cooper's first serious attempt at magazine writing, and Graham's
  Magazine would publish other contributions from him over the next few years,
  notably a series of biographic sketches of American naval officers, and the
  novel "Jack Tier; or The Florida Reef" (1846- 1848). Though hardly one of
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