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JOHN LEAc.o.c.k

Durang; Duyckinck; Hildeburn; Ford; Sabin; Seilhamer, ii, 10; Tyler; ”New Travels through North-America.” Translated from the Original of the Abbe Robin [Claude C.], one of the Chaplains to the French Army in America, 1783. (Observations made in 1781); Sonneck's ”Early Opera in America;” Watson's ”Annals of Philadelphia;” Philadelphia Directories as mentioned in text.

SAMUEL LOW

Dunlap; Duyckinck; Sabin; Seilhamer, ii, 284; Stedman-Hutchinson, Cyclopedia of American Literature; New York Directories as mentioned.

ROYALL TYLER

Allibone; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; Dunlap, i, 137; Duyckinck; Ireland, i, 76; Stedman-Hutchinson, Library of American Literature; Winsor; ”Memoirs of the Hon. Royall Tyler: Late Chief Justice of Vermont. Compiled from his Papers by his son, Thomas Pickman Tyler, 1873” (Unpublished). According to information (1917), this ma.n.u.script, incomplete, is being brought to a close by Helen Tyler Brown, great-granddaughter of the Judge. There is likewise a life of Mary Tyler, unpublished, written by herself when quite an old woman.

Consult also: J. T. Buckingham's ”Personal Memoirs and Recollections,” 2 vols., 1852; J. T. Buckingham's ”Specimens of Newspaper Literature,” 2 vols., 1850; Vermont Bar a.s.sociation Proceedings, 1878-1886, vol. i, pp. 44-62, an article by the Rev.

Thomas P. Tyler, D.D., of Brattleboro; Harold Milton Ellis's ”Joseph Dennie and His Circle: A Study in American Literature from 1792 to 1812.”--Studies in English, No. 1, _Bulletin of the University of Texas_, No. 40, July 15, 1915; John Trumbull's ”Autobiographical Reminiscences and Letters, 1756-1841.” The correspondence relating to Shays's Rebellion is to be found in ”Brattleboro, Wyndham Co., Vermont, Early History, with Biographical Sketches. Henry Burnham.”--Edited by Abby Maria Hemenway (Includes an excellent picture of Royall Tyler); William Willis's ”The Law, the Courts and the Lawyers of Maine” (1863). Further references to Tyler are contained in Rees, 131; Mitch.e.l.l, American Lands; John Adams' Works; Sonneck's ”Opera in America,” under ”May-day in Town;” Seilhamer, ii, 227; _Delineator_ (New York), 85:7; _New England Magazine_, 1894, n. s. 9:674; _North American Review_, July, 1858, 281.

Among Tyler's works, other than those mentioned in the Introduction, may be recorded:

1. ”The Algerine Captive; or, The Life and Adventures of Dr. Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines.” 2 vols.

Walpole, N. H., 1797.

2. ”Moral Tales for American Youths.” Boston, 1800.

3. ”The Yankee in London: A Series of Letters, written by an American Youth during Nine Months of Residence in the City of London.” New York, 1809.