Anyone familiar with Garry Trudeau's brilliantly depicted journalist, Roland B. Hedley, may find some interest in one of his ancestors, born in a series of letters which were published in the New York Mirror from July 1846 to November 1847. They were collected by Bette S. Wiedmann, and published in 1979 in Studies in the American Renaissance. While the article itself is well worth reading, my purpose here is to provide a complete, cohesive, chronological, HTML transcription of the letters themselves, with some correction of obvious typographical errors.
Upon some analysis, I have decided that, even though I have confined my transcriptions to the original letters themselves, it would be safest to consider them unauthorized. While a great many people consider Amazon to be an ideal platform for the dissemination of pirated work, I do not myself hold that opinion. I am perfectly happy to host such questionable work exclusively on my own web site, and so I relegate these letters to the "Circular File," without any permission from anyone, and with the understanding that I shall remove them upon request from anyone with actual authority to do so.
Again, here they are.
Enjoy!
June 16, 2021
————1Alice Vale, Nothing Like It, and The Wherefore Investigating Company.
2Having already published editions of The Adventures of Harry Franco, The Trippings of Tom Pepper, and Bankrupt Stories (a.k.a. The Haunted Merchant).