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Notes
Kuno Francke, "Cotton Mather and August Hermann Francke," Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, V (1896), 57-67.
A fact of which Kuno Francke apparently remained unaware. In his "The Beginning of Cotton Mather's Correspondence with August Hermann Francke" (PQ, V, [1926], 193), he refers to the earlier study without mentioning the recovery of the "lost" manuscript. Nor have I been successful in tracing the history of this now recovered document. Between 1816 and 1820 considerable portions of it were published in The Panoplist and Missionary Magazine (Vols. XII-XVI), but, by 1891 in his Cotton Mather: The Puritan Priest, Barrett Wendell could state explicitly that "the Diary of 1712 is not extant." On May 22, 1919, however, more than a quarter of a century after Wendell's assertion, and more than a century after its unnoticed publication in The Panoplist, the diary reappeared in New York as lot 213A at Scott-O'Shaugnessy sale number 64 where it was purchased by William Gwynn Mather of Cleveland. It has subsequently become part of the Mather collection of the Tracy W. McGregor Library at the University of Virginia.
Mather began each year's diary on his birthday, the twelfth of February. Consequently, the entry for January 10, 1711/12 was available to Francke in the manuscript diary of 1711, and is, of course, not to be found in the diary of 1712.
Volume II of Ford's edition of The Diary of Cotton Mather, with entries correctly dated, appeared in 1912, fourteen years prior to Francke's article in The Philological Quarterly.
When examining the manuscript diary for the entry of May 28, 1711, Francke must have looked up Mather's entry for July 28 ("28.d5.m"). Since the manuscript of 1712 was missing, he could not very well examine it for a January 10 entry; but if he had had the document, presumably he would have checked under "10.d 1.m" (March 10) instead of "10.d 11.m" (January 10) and, consequently, would again have come up empty-handed.
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