IjLtrns — On Alexandp:r Wilson. 175 



Charles Dudley Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature 

 (1897) : 1607, vignette. 



After pencil drawing at Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences : 



Stone's Birds of Eastern Pa. and N. J. (1894) : front. 



Bird Lore (1905) 7: 266, same. 



Philadelphia Sunday Press (May 3, 1896) : 8, reduced. 



The Grey's Ferry, or Union School, has long since ceased 

 to exist. It is described by Wilson as : 



"A neat stone school-house on a sloping green, 

 There, tufted cedars scattered round are seen. 

 And stripling poplars planted in a row ; 

 Some old grey white-oaks overhang the scene, 

 Pleased to look down upon the youths below, 

 Whose noisy noontide sports no care or sorrow know." 



— The Solitary Tutor. 



The earliest representation is doubtless in the Wade collec- 

 tion, drawn by Wilson himself in 1806, and never published. 

 Wade mentions the frame porch ^ unfigured in later pictures. 

 A drawing by M. S. Weaver, October 23, 1841, showing an 

 inartistic little stone box of a building, with bracketed cornice 

 in front, meant to be ornimental, stone steps and landing, 

 flanked by a row of scrubby Lombardy poplars and the 

 branches of a couple of white oaks shading the front, was 

 received by Dr. Elliott Coues, February, 1879, indirectly from 

 Miss Malvenia, daughter of Alexander Lawson. It was first 

 engraved on wood and ptiblished in Gardener's Monthly and 

 Horticulturist, Augtist, 1880, by Thomas Meehan, and after- 

 wards electrotyped from the woodcut and published by Dr. 

 Coues in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club in 

 October of the same year. It was used subsequently in the 

 several editions of Coues' "Key to North American Birds." 

 The author writes : "It is believed to be more satisfactory and 

 reliable than any one of the several hitherto published." Miss 

 Lawson, in her communication to Prof. Haldeman, says : "I 

 have a sketch in colors by Helen, taken from the other side of 

 'Oologist, Aug. 1880. 



