Samuel Miller’s Survey of German Literature,1803

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size NotesCf. especially Scott Holland Goodnight, German Literature in American Magazines Prior to 1846, "University of Wisconsin Philology and Literature Series," iv (1907), 1–264, especially 15ff.; also Frederick H. Wilkens, "Early Influence of German Literature in America," Americana Germanica, iii, No. 2, 103–205John C. Blankenagel, "An Early American Review of Die Wahlverwandtschaften," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, xxxv, 383–388.Cf. G. Harrison Orians, A Short History of American Literature: Analysed by Decades, New York, 1940.Op. cit., p. 158, note 3.German American Annals, n.s. iii (1905), 90f.ii, 271, note x.It is interesting to note that an abridgment of the early parts of Will's Historical Account (on old German literature from Charlemagne through the Twelfth Century) was published in the Literary Miscellany of Cambridge, Mass., in 1805 (1, 26–32, 122–130, 225–232).Old New York: or Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years (New York, 1865), 1, 46; cf. Wilkens, op. cit., p. 126 and note.Edward Tanjore Corwin, A Manual of the Reformed Church in America, 3rd ed., New York, 1879; the Appendix, Chronological List of Ministers, p. 659, lists P. Will under the date 1802.H. E. Scriba, Biographisch-literarisches Lexicon der Schriftsteller des Großherzogthums Hessen im neuenzehnten Jahrhundert, vol. ii, Darmstadt, 1843.Massachusetts Historical Society, Andrews and Eliot Letters, 1662–1811; esp. from Aug. 8, 1799 to Sept. 7, 1802.Samuel Miller, The Life of Samuel Miller, D.D., LL.D., Philadelphia, 1869, 2 vols.; especially 1, 137.Cf. especially William Coolidge Lane, Letters of Christoph Daniel Ebeling, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 35 (1925), 272–451.Cf. Miller Papers, 1, New York Historical Society.i, 352, note g.ii, 314–330.ii, 110-113.In the following section on American literature (11, 387, note c) he mentions that in 1802 the German plan of disposing of books by means of literary fairs was adopted in the United States at the suggestion of the famous Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey.ii, 14–17, 22–28, and "Additional Notes," pp. 450–452.i, 118 and note.i, 431ff.ii, 146.ii, 167.ii, 170f.ii, 183 and 481.ii, 187 and note.ii, 187f and notes.ii, 479f.ii, 189.ii, 198.ii, 202 and 481.ii, 204.ii, 220f. and note.ii, 482f.ii, 490f.; from the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. viii.ii, 506.ii, 502.i, 142, ii, 370, 402, and notes

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