[5] See Mr. Edward B. Reed’s note in The Nation, December 8, 1904, lxxix. 458.
[6] In a note in the Boston Yankee for September, 1829.
[7] “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” Boston, 1902 (“American Men of Letters”), pp. 124–58.
[8] Scribner’s Magazine, January, 1908, xliii. 84.
[9] “Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl), Materials for a Biography; a Study of his Style; his Influence upon American Literature,” Baltimore, 1892.
[10] It has been alleged that by invitation Kennedy wrote the fourth chapter of the second volume of Thackeray’s “Virginians” (1857–9; Tauchnitz Edition, vols. 425, 441). Mrs. Ritchie, Thackeray’s daughter, however, believes that Kennedy only gave her father many hints and facts.
[11] See Professor Trent’s biography, “American Men of Letters” Series, 1892.
[12] See Émile Lauvrière, “Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre, étude de psychologie pathologique,” Paris, 1904.
[13] See Louis P. Betz, “Edgar Poe in der französischen Literatur,” in his “Studien zur vergleichenden Literaturgeschichte der neueren Zeit,” Frankfurt a. M., 1902; “Edgar Poe in Deutschland,” Die Zeit, xxxv. 8–9, 21–23, Vienna, 1903.
[14] In his “George William Curtis” (“American Men of Letters”), Boston, 1894, p. 124.