Here are some other readings that I think I’m going to put on the backburner for now (perhaps, saving them for later?):

Aldrich, Thomas Baily. Out of His Head. A Romance. New York: Carleton, 1862.

Bird, Robert Montgomery. Peter Pilgrim.

Bird, Robert Montgomery. Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself. New York: NYRB Classics, 2008.