''The Eclipse'' is an autobiographical vignette by James Fenimore Cooper that was written between 1833 and 1838, recounting his own experience witnessing a total solar eclipse in Cooperstown on the morning of June 16, 1806. It was published posthumously in the September 1869 issue of ''Putnam's Monthly Magazine''.

Susan Fenimore Cooper Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (April 17, 1813 December 31, 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, New York and made it a successful charity. The daughter of writer James Fenimore Cooper, s ...

, the author's daughter, found it among his papers. The entry in "The Cooper Bookshelf" of the James Fenimore Cooper Society website
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Original publication
in ''Putnam's Magazine'', 1869 *
The Eclipse
' by James Fenimore Cooper, at Cornell University Library Works by James Fenimore Cooper Books published posthumously 1869 books {{Lit-bio-book-stub