FOOTNOTES:
[1] Bryant’s contributions were the stories entitled ‘Medfield’ and ‘The Skeleton’s Cave.’ As originally planned the book was to have been called The Sextad, but Verplanck, who would have made the sixth author, withdrew.
[2] John Bigelow.
[3] W. C. Bronson.
[4] Bryant’s apology to the public for his course, together with Leggett’s statement as an eye-witness, will be found in the ‘Evening Post’ of Thursday, April 21, 1831. Neither the guarded account of the episode in Godwin’s Bryant, nor the brief notice in Haswell’s Reminiscences of an Octogenarian is quite accurate.
[5] As in an ironical leader commending journalists who refuse to say that a man ‘was drowned,’ a dangerous innovation, and, ‘to preserve the purity of their mother tongue,’ stick to time-honored metaphors and say that the man ‘found a watery grave.’—‘Evening Post,’ August 17, 1831.
[6] G. O. Trevelyan.