ssays were printed with minimal attribution, or none at all;
some can also be found in other sources. "The Nettle and the Rose"
also appears in _The Blossoms of Morality_ (1796) and in _New-York
Magazine_, N.S. II (1797). "On Education" is taken from the
writings of Vicesimus Knox; "Detraction" is by Nathaniel Cotton.

"Amelia, or the Faithless Briton". Here quoted from _The New-York
Magazine, or, Literary Repository_: Vol. VI (1795); the story also
appears in _The Lady's Weekly Miscellany_ (1810).

"The Merchant's Daughter". Here quoted from _The American Monthly
Magazine_, Vol. 3, 1834.

"The Story of an Unfortunate Young Lady". Here quoted from _The
Lady's Miscellany, or, Weekly visitor..._ Vols. 14-15 (1811)

_Poetry_

[Most poems are quoted only once, and will be identified as they appear.
The author of _Alida_ was obviously fond of poetry, especially obscure
poems found in periodicals or privately published books.]

James Thomson (d. 1748): _The Seasons_. The work was reprinted
many times. Quotations are from the 1829 Hartford edition.
There exists an 1842 edition of _The Seasons_ which also contains
Bloomfield's _Farmer's Boy_ (see chapter XIV). If similar
collections were published earlier, this might be the source for
both poems.
In _Alida_, passages from _The Seasons_ are almost always in
quotation marks.

Mary (Mrs. Henry) Tighe: _Psyche, with Other Poems_. Quoted from
1816 London edition.
Quoted works: _Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring_ (1802);
_Verses Written in Sickness_ (1804); _A Faithful Friend is the
Medicine of Life_.

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ALIDA: parallel version

[The prefatory material and list of subscribers have been omitted. Some
long paragraphs have been broken up for easier comparison. In the source
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more complete paragraphs or stanzas have been skipped.]

[Frontispiece Caption:]
"Optimum vitae genus eligito nam consuetudo faciet jucundissimum."

[[Attributed to Pythagoras in Diogenes Laertius viii; cited in
_Spectator_ 447.]]

[Title Page:]
Incidents / During the Late American War. / Founded on Fact.

[[The phrase "founded on fact" appears in the title of several of
_Alida_'s sources, notably _Alo