Sylvanus Cobb Jr.

This article is about the American fiction writer who used a pseudonym of Dr. J.H. Robinson. For the historian and academician, James Harvey Robinson, see James Harvey Robinson.
Sylvanus Cobb Jr. 1852
Excerpt from The Card Table. Ballou's Pictorial, ca.1856
Excerpt from The Unmeant Rebuke. Ballou's Pictorial
Excerpt from Slander and Pistols. Ballou's Pictorial, ca.1855
Excerpt from An Incident on the Mississippi. Ballou's Pictorial

Sylvanus Cobb Jr. (June 5, 1823 – July 20, 1887) was an American popular fiction writer during the mid-19th century. His work was published in the New York Ledger, The Flag of Our Union, The Weekly Novelette, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, and elsewhere.