Writings
Leggett's writings include Leisure Hours at Sea (1825); Tales and Sketches of a Country School Master (1835); Naval Stories (1835); and Political Writings, edited, with a preface, by Theodore Sedgwick (1840). Tales and Sketches of a Country School Master includes "The Rifle" (originally in The Atlantic Souvenir, Christmas and New Year’s Offering, a early pre-Poe use of elements that would appear in detective fiction.
His main editorials have been collected as Democratick Editorials: Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy (1984)
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