BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Order of Arrangement 



i. Writings of Drake. 3. Some Books and Articles 



2. Notes on some Mann- about Drake, 



scripts of Drake. 4. Miscellany. 



1. WRITINGS OF DRAKE 



The Croakers 



The Poetry of the Portfolio. Collected by Oliver Old- 

 school [/. c, Joseph Dennis]. Philadelphia: H. Hall, 1818. 



1 8°. Includes for the first time in book form three poems by 

 Drake and Halleck, signed "Croaker & Co.," as follows: 



"To . Esq."; "Abstract of a Surgeon-General's [Dr. 



Mitchill's] Report." and "A Loving Epistle to Mr. \Vm. 

 Cobbett of North Hempstead, L. I." 



Poems. / by / Croaker, Croaker & Co. / and / Croaker, 

 Jun. / as published . in the Evening Post. / [Parallel lines 

 and quotation from Shakespeare] / Published for the Reader. 

 / New York — 1819. 



16 ; title, verso blank; text, headed " Poems," pp. [3] — 36. 

 Signatures: A — C in sixes. The first edition in book form. 



The copy described is owned by Alfred T. White, Esq., of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., and has pasted on the front flyleaves three 

 of the original Croaker poems cut from the " New York 

 Evening Post." One of these is a squib " To E. Simpson, Esq. 

 Manager of the Theatre," annotated in a contemporary hand 

 with the names of the persons lampooned, as follows : S- — ■ 

 Sanford; Y — B — Yan Buren ; C — Clinton; "Justice 



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