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Joseph Rodman Drake. The Poet of The Bronx. By 

 Victor Hugo Paltists, in Bronx. Journal of the Bronx Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, vol. I (October. 1916). 



4. MISCELLANY 

 (A). Drake Park and Drake's Grave 



A Poet's Grave, in The New-York Mirror, March 4, 1837; 

 with a woodengraved view of the Hunt cemetery by Adams. 



Grave of Drake. By Henry B. Dawson, in Historical 

 Magazine, vol. 21 (3d series, vol. 1), February, 1872, pp. 

 105-107. 



Grave of Joseph Rodman Drake, with picture of the monu- 

 ment and surroundings, in The Four-Track News, January, 

 1902, p. 48. 



To run a Street over a Poet's Grave. Proposed desecration 

 of the Tomb of the Author of "The American Flag," in the 

 Evening Sun, Sept. 27, 1902. 



Poem on "The Grave of Joseph Rodman Drake," by Henry 

 G. Kost, in The North Side News, June 7, 1908. Friends 

 who honor Drake's memory should also read Clinton Scol- 

 lard's poem, entitled, "At the Grave of Joseph Rodman 

 Drake," published originally in the New York Sun. 



An interesting picture of the tomb of Drake and the old 

 cemetery gate at Hunts Point, after a drawing by E. Eldon 

 Deane, copyright 1904, is in The American Architect, Janu- 

 ary 23, 1904. 



Joseph Rodman Drake Park. Address of James L. Wells, 

 September 16, 1904. Printed pursuant to a Resolution of the 

 North Side Board of Trade. [New York, 1904.] 8°; pp. 

 15 (1). Tinted paper covers. Drake's The American Flag 

 is given on p. 13. A copy is in the collection of the Bronx 

 Society of Arts and Sciences. 



Joseph Rodman Drake Park, in Tenth Annual Report of 

 the American Scenic and Historic-Preservation Society, 1905, 



