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Notes
R. W. Stallman and Lillian Gilkes, eds., Stephen Crane: Letters (1960), pp. 67-68. The text is there printed without the initials "L. B." "L. B." was probably either Louise Baker or L. J. Bridgman, both of whom frequently contributed to the Companion. Many of the details surrounding the publication of the magazine are unknown. Daniel S. Ford, its editor-publisher from 1867 to his death in 1899, preferred anonymity. During this time his name appeared only twice in the Companion, when he assumed sole ownership and when he died; and the masthead never included the editorial staff but simply listed the publisher by the fictitious name "Perry Mason & Co." For a brief history of the magazine, see the introduction to Richard Cutts, comp., Index to The Youth's Companion, 1871-1929, 1 (1972), v-xvii.
Joseph Katz, "Stephen Crane to Youth's Companion: A New Letter," Stephen Crane Newsletter, 2 (Winter 1967), 5.
Fredson Bowers, ed., Tales of War, Vol. VI of The Works of Stephen Crane, introd. James B. Colvert (Charlottesville: The Univ. Press of Virginia, 1970), p. lxxxi. Bowers used the version in The Gentlewoman as copy-text, which appears in volume VI, pp. 89-93. References to the story are cited in the text by page and line number. References to other volumes in the Edition include volume number.
Much of my knowledge regarding Crane's treatment of substantives and accidentals comes from Bowers' textual introductions in the Virginia Edition.
In a letter to Ripley Hitchcock, dated 2 April 1896, discussing Maggie, Crane wrote, "The proofs make me ill. Let somebody go over them—if you think best—and watch for bad grammatical form & bad spelling. I am too jaded with Maggie to be able to see it" (R. W. Stallman and Lillian Gilkes, eds., Stephen Crane: Letters [1960], p. 122). Crane's weariness notwithstanding, he was weak in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
The first and third inventories are in the Columbia University Crane Collection at Butler Library; the second, in the Castle Collection at the Bryn Mawr College Library. For a brief discussion of Crane's projected seven-volume collection, see Paul Sorrentino, "Stephen Crane's Manuscript of 'This Majestic Lie,'" Studies in Bibliography 36 (1983), 221-223.
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