C. M. Haile's Pardon Jones Letters: Old Southwest Humor from Antebellum Louisiana

by C.M. Haile

From 1840 to 1848, journalist C. M. Haile published a series of mock letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Picayune under the pseudonym Pardon Jones. With their rural dialect, outlandish and amusing characters, and farcical situations, the letters proved extremely popular with readers and became a regular feature in the newspaper. In C. M. Haile's Pardon Jones Letters, Ed Piacentino collects all of Haile's sixty-seven epistles, highlighting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807134376
• ISBN13: 9780807134375
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"