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Notes
[1]
For light on these see E. H. Cady, "William Dean Howells in Italy: Some Bibliographical Notes," Symposium, VII (1953), 147-153.
[3]
This information, as well as the sheet-music itself, came through Mr. Chet Lampson, editor of The Jefferson Gazette (successor to the Howells family newspaper, The Ashtabula Sentinel) and expert Western Reserve historian, collector, and book-hunter.
[5]
One cannot be sure, reconstructing it from its sheet-music divisions, that Howells' verses or even lines were precisely those given here.
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