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Notes
For example, "Sonnet to Enthusiasm" by "J.P. Aged 14," New-York Magazine 4 (April 1793): 252; "Affecting Epistle to an Heiress," "Evening-Extempore," "Of Knowledge of the World, with Respect to the Follies and Vices of It," New-York Magazine 1 (October 14, 1795): 120; 2 (November 2, 1796): 409-410. These are signed with the initials "J.P." Other examples of Paulding's early poems were enclosed in his letters to Sally Hanlon, August 22, 1800; May 8, 1801; September 3, [1802], in The Letters of James Kirke Paulding, ed. Ralph M. Aderman (1962) 6-7, 9-10, 13, 22.
"Advice," signed "P.," (Port Folio 5 [March 9, 1805]: 72) and a letter and "Song," both signed "P." in Port Folio 5 (September 14, 1805): 288 are probably by Paulding. The tone of the letter and the poems is similar to Paulding's writings of the time. Paulding probably became acquainted with Joseph Dennie, editor of the Port Folio, through William Meredith, with whom Dennie lived when he first moved to Philadelphia. Meredith's wife was Gertrude Gouverneur Ogden, and Paulding's mother was also an Ogden. See Harold Milton Ellis, Joseph Dennie and His Circle (Bulletin of the University of Texas, No. 40. Studies in English, No. 3 [repr. 1971] 113-114.
See, for example, the satirical note written in ponderous critical language which accuses Thomas Moore of plagiarizing from Joseph Warton (ser. 3, 1 [June 1809]: 513-514) or poems such as "The Lion and the Hottentot" and "The Eagle and the Bat" (ser. 3, 4 [October 1810]: 377-379) or "The Sick Lion, the Fox, and the Wolf" and "The Shepherd and the Wolf" (ser. 3, 5 [January 1811]: 34-36).
Paulding is not included among the identifications in Randolph C. Randall, "Authors of the Port Folio Revealed by the Hall Files," American Literature 11 (January 1940): 379-416.
Albert Henry Smyth, Philadelphia Magazines and Their Contributors (1892) 179. Smyth states that Paulding's contributions are marked with a "P." A check of the file of Select Reviews does not turn up any articles with that identification.
Frederic Hudson, Journalism in the United States (1969 [reprint of the 1873 edition]) 282-283; Paulding, Manuscript Autobiography (New York Public Library).
Paulding's son and biographer identifies his father as the author of the "Parvus Homo" letters in the National Intelligencer. See William I. Paulding, Literary Life of James K. Paulding (1867) 155. A survey of two incomplete files of newspaper discloses twenty-one letters by Parvus Homo between April 23, 1819, and May 8, 1821, appearing as follows: Daily National Intelligencer, April 23, 26, May 15, June 8, 1819; National Intelligencer, May 29, July 7, 1819; November 21, 30, December 14, 1820; January 6, 25, 30, February 10, March 22, 27, 31, April 7, 12, 28, May 3, 8, 1821. In the last ten letters, purportedly written from the Elysian Fields, Paulding turns from banking and monetary matters to comments on the contemporary literary scene, an area in which he doubtless felt more at home.
For example, Rebecca Gratz in Philadelphia wrote to her friends about Paulding's authorship of Lay of the Scottish Fiddle (1813), Letters from the South (1817) and The Backwoodsman (1818). See Rebecca Gratz to Mary Eliza Fenno Hoffman, August 30, 1813 (Verplanck Papers, New-York Historical Society); to Maria Hoffman, December 21, 1817, and n.d. [1818?]; and to Benjamin Gratz, November 12, 1818 (all in Gratz Papers, American Jewish Historical Society). See also Gorham A. Worth, American Bards: A Modern Poem in Three Parts (1819) 51; Robert Waln, American Bards, A Satire (1820) 70-71, 79-80; British Review 14 (August 1819): 48; Kaleidoscope, or Literary and Scientific Mirror 2 (March 28, 1820): 148; Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review 4 (May 18, 1822): 312; Retrospective Review 9 (1824): 304; Edinburgh Literary Journal 2 (August 8, 1831): 131.
The pamphlet was published in Philadelphia for the author by Edwa[r]d Earle. A copy in the New-York Historical Society has "by Mr. Paulding" written on the title page. In 1831 George Pope Morris published a notice asking to buy or borrow a copy of the work, noting that it was "written, we believe, by Mr. Paulding." New-York Mirror (January 1, 1831): 203.
For example, Paulding contributed to the Encyclopedia Americana, edited by Francis Lieber, but his specific entries have not been identified. See The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber, ed. Thomas Sergeant Perry (1881) 80. For earlier attempts to identify his writings for periodicals see Ralph M. Aderman, "James Kirke Paulding's Contributions to American Magazines," Studies in Bibliography 17 (1964): [141]-151; and Joyce Henry, "Five More Essays by James Kirke Paulding?" Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 66 (Third Quarter 1972): 310-321.
A biographical sketch published in 1855 included the following list of newspapers or magazines containing anonymous writings by Paulding: New-York Mirror, Analectic Magazine, Knickerbocker Magazine, Graham's Magazine, Godey's Lady Book, Democratic Review, United States Review, Literary World, Wheaton's National Advocate, National Intelligencer, Southern Press, and Washington Union. See Cyclopaedia of American Literature, ed. Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck (1855) 2: 5.
In offering his support to President Jackson and Vice-President Van Buren, Paulding stated that "I think I can do more good, and more agreeably to my feelings, by making use of the Columns, of the Evening Post, as heretofore . . . . you and the General should Know what I am about; but many considerations make me wish to avoid publicity in this business. By remaining unknown, I can not only write more freely, but avoid the necessity of acting on the defensive, which is always bad policy in Controversies." Paulding to Martin Van Buren, July 8, 1834, in The Letters of James Kirke Paulding 147-148. At about the same time Paulding acknowledged that he was "occupied with political scribbling," again probably in the columns of the New-York Evening Post. See Paulding to Gouverneur Kemble, March 8, 1838 (letter owned by William Kemble).
The Letters of William Cullen Bryant, ed. William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss (1975) 1: 176.
"The Literary Trifler," New York Review and Athenaeum Magazine 1 (July 1825): 146-154; "A Letter from Adrian Lubbersen," 1 (November 1825): 461-471 and 2 (December 1825): 66-70; and "The Beau's Tale" 2 (January 1826): 133-146.
See William Gilmore Simms to Daniel Kimball Whittaker, [September 29, 1835], in The Letters of William Gilmore Simms, ed. Mary C. Simms Oliphant and T. C. Duncan Eaves (1982) 6: 5; and Southern Journal 1 (November 1835): 175-176.
See Paulding to Robert J. Dillon, James T. Brady, Daniel Sickles, Augustus Schell, and Edward C. West, March 14, 1850, Democratic Review 26 (April 1850): 374-377, reprinted in The Letters of James Kirke Paulding 508-513; "The Conspiracy of Fanaticism," Democratic Review 26 (May 1850): 385-400; "Military Presidents," Democratic Review 26 (June 1850): 481-498; "Fugitive Slaves," Democratic Review 27 July 1850): 57-62. These articles can be ascribed to Paulding because he mentions in a letter to Henry S. Foote, June 3, 1850, that he had sent essays on the slavery question to the magazine. Part of the article on military presidents relating to Andrew Jackson was reprinted in Literary Life of James K. Paulding 287-289.
See Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1741-1850 (1957) 682; and Bruce I. Weiner, "The United States Magazine and Democratic Review" in American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, ed. Edward E. Chielens (1986) 427.
James Kirke Paulding to Joseph S. Sims, April 10, 1852 (letter in William E. Perkins Library, Duke University. Subsequent references to letters to Sims are from the same collection.) See, for example, "Obsolete Ideas by an Old Fogy," which appeared in the Washington Union in April, May, and June of 1854.
For proof of Paulding's authorship see Aderman, "Paulding's Contributions to American Magazines," p. 146.
See "Paulding the Author Disinterred," The Corsair 1 (April 27, 1839): 104-105; (May 4, 1839): 2; (May 18, 1839): 152.
At the end of the September 1853 issue the editor made a plea for payment of subscriptions: "A hopeful reliance on the generosity of the American Republican [i.e., Democratic] party induced us to start the Review on a comparatively small capital, and although we have received every encouragement in the way of subscriptions, the delay in making immediate payment of subscriptions on the part of some of our best friends has already occasioned delays of publication, and other business derangements, very injurious to the prospects of the work." United States Review n.s. 2 (September 1853): 288. Paulding attributed the delays in the regular appearance of the Review to "the embarrassments of the Proprietors who commenced the undertaking with little or no capital. Although they have received a considerable patronage, all things considered, it has not been sufficient to keep them going without occasional obstacles and interruptions, and it depends in a great measure on the South, I apprehend, whether it can be continued beyond the present year. It is intended to be essentially a Southern Review, not an Executive organ, and will— so long as I have control over it— remain true to that character." Paulding to Joseph S. Sims, October 6, 1853. The United States Review suspended publication from October 1853 through May 1854 while the proprietors attempted to raise funds to continue.
"They seem to be most all turning politicians. . . . By intruding religion into the sphere of politics, and making points of faith not political principles the basis of Party organization, they are unquestionably aiming to place the church above the state and establish a new hierarchy." Paulding to Joseph S. Sims, July 14, 1854.
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