All I can find from my home is the same record you are looking at, where we get the semi-nonsensical note
"Attributed to Henry Steel Olcott; no attribution by Sabin."
Which doesn't say who attributes authorship to Olcott other than the cataloger. The records I have seen refer to the Gale electronic version (which I do not have access to) but the 040 is:
040: $a TGPSM $c UtOrBLW
The transcribing library $c is Backstage Library Works, but I can't find the original agency.
So, the cataloger did some work (looking in Sabin), but not enough, and then everybody just accepted the record until you came along. Congrats! There may be a hand-written note in the copy that was originally cataloged that says that it is authored by Olcott, but that needs to be stated clearly.
Looks like a case of cataloger error to me. .
Jim Weinheimer
> Can anyone tell me the citation/authority for ascribing Henry Steel Olcott
> (1832-1937) as the author of:
>
> Pulpit sketches : or the dreams of a pew holder. Albany : Printed by Munsell
> and Tanner, 1845.
>
> The printer: Joel Munsell went to jail for 30 days for refusing to say who
> the author was.
>
> Olcott was born in 1832 - he would have been 13 years old when this was
> published.
> This is a sophisticated essay attacking the leading clergy of the day.
> It doesn't seem likely that he was the author & I'd like to verify that
> naming him as the author is accurate or not.
>
> Thank you,
> Tom
Received on Sat Aug 22 2009 - 11:07:40 EDT