University of Virginia Library

See "William Gilmore Simms and the Southern Literary Gazette," Studies in Bibliography, XXI (1968), 67-68.

I am indebted to Mr. James E. Kibler, Jr., graduate research assistant at the University of South Carolina, for discovering this apparently unique copy among uncatalogued materials in the Kendall Collection of the South Caroliniana Library.

The contents were correctly listed in the Charleston Courier for October 29, 1829 (quoted in "William Gilmore Simms and the Southern Literary Gazette," p. 68). The known contributions by Simms to the twelfth number are listed below in the Appendix, and the reasons for their ascription noted.

See Appendix, "William Gilmore Simms and the Southern Literary Gazette," pp. 88-91. The "Sonnet" beginning "Here on this bank of bruised violets," listed as "Probably by Simms," should be listed as certain, on the basis of its inclusion in Grouped Thoughts and Scattered Fancies. A Collection of Sonnets (1845).

"Advertisement to the Second Edition," Martin Faber, the Story of a Criminal; and Other Tales, 2 vols. (1837), I, xi-xii. William P. Trent gives a very full account of the Miserrimus-Martin Faber-"Confessions of a Murderer" controversy and quotes at length a statement by Simms said to be included among "certain 'Personal and Literary Memorials,' scribbled off by the young author on the fourth day of June, 1834, while he was smarting under the stupidity and malignity of some of his early critics" (William Gilmore Simms, 1892, pp. 76-80). I have searched the notebook Simms labeled "Personal and Literary Memorials" now in the South Caroliniana Library and failed to find the passage Trent quotes; it is easily possible that Trent had material available to him that has since been lost.

See, for instance, the letters of November 13, 1832; January 19, 1833; and July 19, 1834; The Letters of William Gilmore Simms, ed. Mary C. Simms Oliphant, A. T. Odell, and T. C. Duncan Eaves, 5 vols. (1952-56), I, 45, 49, and 61.

Perhaps it should be noted that major differences also exist in the two stories; these differences are not enumerated because in this context they do not seem relevant.

See Floyd H. Deen, "The Genesis of Martin Faber in Caleb Williams," Modern Language Notes, LIX (1944), 315-317; Edward Stone, "Caleb Williams and Martin Faber: A Contrast," Modern Language Notes, LXII (1947), 480-483, questions the validity of Deen's thesis.

"William Gilmore Simms and the Southern Literary Gazette," p. 74.

Simms used "E." as a pseudonym in the Album, in the Southern and Western Monthly Magazine and Review, and elsewhere in SLG.

Republication of contributions, often with extensive revision, is indicated in parenthesis. The following is a key to the symbols used:

• Areytos Areytos: or, Songs of the South (1846)
• Egeria Egeria: or, Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside (1853)
• MF Martin Faber; the Story of a Criminal (1833)
• PDDLC Poems Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative (1853)
• SP&P Southern Passages and Pictures (1839)

See "Inscription," Magnolia: or Southern Monthly, IV (1842), 206, signed by Simms.

See "Stanzas—Self-Reckoning," Southern Literary Messenger, X (1844), 167, signed "Il Penseroso," a proven Simms pseudonym.

Simms used "G." as a pseudonym fourteen times in SLG alone; two of the poems so signed were later republished under his name. He also used the pseudonym seven times in his earlier magazine, the Album.

See "William Gilmore Simms and the Southern Literary Gazette," p. 71.

See above, pp. 271-272.

This "Epitaph" seems the companion piece of the "Epitaph" listed above.

In the "Introduction" to SLG (I, 1) and consistently throughout his career Simms wrote about the importance of establishing an independent American literature; "Prospects of a National Literature" is almost unquestionably the work of the editor of SLG.