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Notes
The most recent statement of this generally accepted belief that I have seen occurs in Professor Jay B. Hubbell's excellent study, "Charles Chauncey Burr: Friend of Poe," PMLA, LXIX (1954), 833-840. He points out that both William Gilmore Simms and John Esten Cooke "were finding great difficulty in inducing Northern editors and publishers to print any of their writings" (p. 834).
See Professor Hubbell's statements on "Authorship in the New South," The South in American Literature 1607-1900 (1954), p. 710, where he writes that "the lot of the Southern writer had never been a happy one, but in the lean years of the late sixties it was pitiable indeed."
For an analysis of the antagonism between Northern and Southern ideals, see Henry Nash Smith, "Minority Report: The Tradition of the Old South," in the Literary History of the United States, ed. Spiller, Thorp, Johnson, and Canby, I, 607-617.
Professor Hubbell points out in his history of Southern literature (p. 711) that whereas Simms, Bagby, and Hayne failed to establish connections with Northern publishers, John R. Thompson and George Cary Eggleston both served as editors of Bryant's Evening Post.
For a reprint of these articles, see Stonewall Jackson and the Old Stonewall Brigade, ed. R. B. Harwell (Charlottesville: The Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1954).
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