dwalader, Philip Hamilton, Richard Rush, Richard Peters,
Gouverneur Morris, Joseph Hopkinson, Horace Binney, Alexander Wilson,
Charles Brockden Brown and Samuel Ewing. To this list must be added the
bright names of Sarah Hall, Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson and Harriet Fenno.

The editors and editorial helpers of the _Port Folio_ from the death of
Dennie until 1827, when the magazine finally ceased, were Paul Allen,
Nicholas Biddle, Dr. Charles Caldwell, Thomas Cooper, Judge Workman,
John Elihu Hall, and his three brothers James, Thomas Mifflin, and
Harrison.

JOHN BLAIR LINN (1777-1804), the author of the "Powers of Genius"
(1801), a popular work which was splendidly reprinted in London,[13] was
the son of Dr. William Linn, of Shippensburg, who presided successively
over the destinies of three colleges--Washington, Rutgers and Union--and
was for many years a regent of a fourth--the University of the State of
New York. John Blair was graduated from Columbia, read law with
Alexander Hamilton, wrote an unsuccessful drama, "Bourville Castle," and
on June 13, 1799, was installed as joint-pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. He engaged in controversy with Joseph
Priestley, but his best achievements were "Valerian," a narrative poem,
and "The Death of Washington" (1800). John Blair Linn was a
brother-in-law of Charles Brockden Brown. A biographical sketch of him
was written for the _Port Folio_ in 1809 (page 21), and again in 1811
(89-97). Brown also published a review of his life and work in the
_Literary Magazine_, Vol. II, page 554.

[13] The Powers of Genius, a poem in three parts, by John Blair Linn,
A.M. Albion Press. Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for F. Williams,
Stationers' Court, and T. Hurst, Paternoster Row, 1804.

JOHN SHAW (1778-1809) was born in Annapolis, May 4, 1778, and lost at
sea January 10, 1809. He studied medicine in the University of
Pennsylvania, and visited Algiers as a ship-surgeon in 1798. He died on
a voyage to the Bahama Islands.

The best poem that he contributed to the _Port Folio_ was:

Who has robbed the ocean cave,
To tinge thy lips with coral hue?
Who from India's distant wave
For thee those pearly treasures drew?
Who, from yonder Orient sky,
Stole the morning of thine eye?

Thousand charms thy form to deck,
From sea, and earth, and air are born;
Roses bloom upon thy cheek,
On thy breath their fragrance borne.
Guard thy bosom