S. L. FAIRFIELD, born in Warwick, Mass., June 25, 1803, died in New
Orleans, La., March 6, 1844, entered Brown University, Providence, R.
I., at the age of thirteen. He studied so unremittingly, that after a
few months he was attacked with a severe sickness. On recovering he
was forced to leave college and seek a living as a tutor in the
Southern States. In 1825 he sailed for London and wrote his poem,
_The Cities of the Plain_, which appeared in the _Oriental Herald_.
He was received by Lafayette, in France, where he published _Pere la
Chaise_ and _Westminster Abbey_. He returned to the United States in
1826.
MINA. A Dramatic Sketch. Baltimore, Joseph Robinson, 1825. 12mo, pp.
120.