l events,
even in the part of the story that draws heavily on _Alonzo and
Melissa_. The war of 1812 began in mid-1812 and ended in December 1814;
evidently the news reached New York before it reached New Orleans.

1811 and earlier
Death of Alida's mother
Alida goes to seminary in New York:
"The season was now far advanced in autumn"

1812
Alida returns home:
"The spring was advancing"
[June 1812: War declared]
Father's birthday; Alida is sixteen
From Alonzo and Melissa:
"It was summer, and towards evening when he arrived."
"It was the beginning of autumn"
"... and sung a requiem to departed summer"
"... the day had been uncommonly sultry for the autumnal season"
"Winter came on; it rapidly passed away."

1813
"Spring advanced, and the marriage day was appointed."
"Nature was adorned with the bridal ornaments of spring"
"Fleecy summer clouds ..."
Theodore has not yet enlisted
"... weary summer had lapsed into the fallow arms of autumn"
After father's remarriage:
"the cool breezes of autumn had changed to the hoarse murmuring
gales of winter"

1814
"the mild and salubrious breezes of spring had succeeded to
the blustering gales of winter"
Father's birthday
[August 1814: burning of Washington]
[December 1814: Treaty of Ghent]
[December 1814-January 1815: Hartford Convention]
"... taken up their residence in the city for the winter"

1815
[January 1815: battle of New Orleans]
War is over; celebration of peace
"winter's snow was passing from the face of nature"
"verdant scenery of spring"
"showers of April had cleared the atmosphere"
Father's birthday
Alida leaves for tour of New York state:
"The summer was past its meridian"
"The number of travellers this summer were unusually great"

1816
After death of Alida's father:
"at the commencement of the ensuing spring"
Theodore returns

Alida: Sources

Abbreviated titles of the most frequently cited works are given here in
[brackets]. Unless otherwise noted, the quoted edition was picked simply
because it was the most readily available; it may or may not have been
the edition used by the author. All [_sic_] notations were added by the
transcriber; all brackets in _Alonzo and Melissa_ are in the original.

Sources that are used only once are identified as they occur in the
text.

_Non-Fiction_

Karl Bernhar