Don Horacio 



a touch of poetic justice in the mor- 

 tuary notice printed in a San Fran- 

 cisco newspaper, announcing the 

 death of Mr. Cutter and briefly re- 

 viewing his career, that the creator of 

 Ruthven Jenkyns, a wholly imaginary 

 character, should be presented as first 

 cousin of another purely fictitious 

 person, who is there made to appear 

 as the nearest bereaved relative and 

 chief mourner of the deceased. The 

 obituary writer, after making due 

 mention of Mr. Cutter's pedigree and 

 his relation to the well-known Coo- 

 lidge family of Boston, says that his 

 first cousin and nearest surviving re- 

 lative is " Susan Coolidge, the au- 

 thor," a name familiar to story readers 

 as the wholly fictitious nom-de-plume 

 of Miss Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. 



Another significant example of 

 hasty editorial misapprehension oc- 

 curs in the same obituary notice, 

 wherein the deceased, by ridiculous 

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