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Mirror, March 3, 1832; poems in American Monthly Maga- 

 zine, vol. 6, p. 65 ; Southern Literary Messenger, vol. 2, p. 326; 

 Democratic Review, vol. 14. p. 202; Holden's Dollar Maga- 

 zine. June, 1848, p. 324; "To my Sister Caroline" was first 

 printed in The Independent, in 1872; and a collection based 

 upon the manuscript volume owned by Judge Tillou, Drake's 

 brother-in-law, in the New York Daily Tribune, January 6, 

 1881. 



A continuation of "The Culprit Fay," signed " Oberon." 

 appeared in The New York Mirror. 



Interesting is a fine poem, written in the spirit of Drake's 

 "The Culprit Fay," and intended as an introduction to it. 

 The author, Dr. Harry Lyman Koopman, now librarian of 

 Brown University, has presented a copy to the Drake Col- 

 lection owned by the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences, 

 from which the following description has been made, viz. : 



The Crime / of the / Culprit Fay / Introductory to Drake's 

 Poem / By / Harry Lyman Koopman / 300 Copies Printed 

 as Manuscript / for Private Distribution / Burlington Ver- 

 mont / 1890. 



12 ; title, with printer's name on verso; dedication, with 

 verso blank; text of poem, pp. [5]- — 22; blank leaf. Yellow 

 paper cover ; on front cover : " The Crime of / The Culprit 

 Fay / H L Koopman's / Yule Gift to his / Friends 1890." 

 The copy owned by the Bronx Society is inscribed : " For the 

 Drake Collection, a token of life-long homage from Harry 

 Lyman Koopman." 



Judge Gedney arranged in libretto "The Culprit Fay" for 

 an operetta, as performed about 1883. An ambitious attempt 

 to set to music "The Culprit Fay" was made by the composer 

 Frederick Grant Gleason (b. 1848; d. 1903), in his opus 15, 

 a cantata for soli, chorus, and orchestra. Dudley Buck, the 

 American composer (b. 1839, d. 1909), was called to Chicago 

 as an organist in 1869. During the great fire he lost many 

 manuscripts, among them being a concert overture on " The 



