Note 4 — II William Cullen Bryant
Reading edition
Bryant’s apology to the public for his course, together with Leggett’s statement as an eye-witness, will be found in the ‘Evening Post’ of Thursday, April 21, 1831. Neither the guarded account of the episode in Godwin’s Bryant, nor the brief notice in Haswell’s Reminiscences of an Octogenarian is quite accurate.