The Heathen Chinee
First separate edition of Plain Language from Truthful James, which first appeared as an article in The Overland Monthly in September 1870.
Issued as a printed envelope-folder containing nine lithographed caricature plates by John Hull, each accompanied by a poem.
No copy recorded in the CCF.
Small angular tears to the envelope, with some staining to the lower margin.
Originally intended as a fierce satire on the racial prejudice of Irish-American workers against the numerous Chinese immigrants competing for railway construction jobs, the piece was widely misread as mocking the immigrants themselves.
The Jewish writer and poet Francis Brett...
