Representative Plays By American Dramatists Part 3

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 Compiled from his Papers by his son, Thomas Pickman Tyler, 1873" (Unpublished).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 There is likewise a life of Mary Tyler, unpublished, written by herself when quite an old woman.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.

4. Tyler wrote for the newspapers with Joseph Dennie, Walpole, N.

H., and published selections from his contributions under the t.i.tle of "The Spirit of the Farmer's Museum and Lay Preacher's Gazette."

He also contributed poems to the _Farmer's Weekly Museum_, to the _Portfolio_, to the Columbia _Centinel_, to the _New England Galaxy_, and to the _Polyanthus_. Prose works were likewise included therein. Some of his contributions to the _Farmer's Museum_ were gathered together in 1798 under the t.i.tle of "Colon and Spondee Papers," and issued by the pioneer American printer, Isaiah Thomas.

WILLIAM DUNLAP

The reader is referred to Dunlap's own "History of the American Theatre," and to his numerous other prose works, notably his Lives of Charles Brockden Brown and George Frederick Cooke. The Dunlap Society's Reprints of "Andre" (iv. 1887), "Darby's Return" (n. s. 8, 1899), and "The Father" (ii, 1887) contain biographical data. See Oscar Wegelin's "William Dunlap and His Writings," _Literary Collector_, 7:69-76, 1904; O. S. Coad's "William Dunlap: A Study of his Life and Writings, and of Contemporary Culture" (scheduled for issuance by the Dunlap Society in 1917); Dunlap's Diary, in the Library of the New York Historical Society: Vol. 14, July 27-Dec.

13, 1797; vol. 15, Dec. 14, 1797-June 1, 1798; vol. 24, Oct. 15, 1819-April 14, 1820; vol. 30, June 27, 1833-Dec. 31, 1834. Consult also Duyckinck; Rees, 76; Stedman-Hutchinson, Library of American Literature; Seilhamer, Index; Wood, Personal Recollections; Sonneck's "The Musical Side of George Was.h.i.+ngton;" _a.n.a.lytical Magazine_, i, 404, 466; _New England Magazine_, 1894, n. s. 9, 684.

See Wegelin, Evans, Hildeburn.

JAMES NELSON BARKER

Dunlap, ii, 307; Durang; Ireland; Rees; Diary of Manager Wood, in possession of the University of Pennsylvania. Also Griswold's "Poets and Poetry of America;" Oberholtzer's "Literary History of Philadelphia;" Simpson. Barker's political writings were extensive.

MORDECAI MANUEL NOAH

Dunlap, ii, 316; Ireland, i, 356; Jewish Encyclopedia; National Cyclopedia of American Biography. See also Allibone; Duyckinck; P.

K. Foley's "American Authors;" Oberholtzer's "Literary History of Philadelphia;" Rees; Scharf and Westcott; James Grant Wilson's "Fitz-Green Halleck;" _International Magazine_, iii, 282; _American Jewish Historical Society Pub._, No. 6, 1897, 113-121; _Lippincott_, i, 665; J. T. Trowbridge's "My Own Story. With Recollections of Noted Persons" (1903).