Robert Folkestone Williams: _Mephistophiles in England, or the Confessions of a Prime Minister_. 1835. _Alida_ only quotes one passage from this two-volume novel. The episode may have been reprinted in some other text, or the novel itself may have lifted it from an earlier source. Amelia Stratton Comfield: _Alida_. When all else fails, the book quotes itself. One passage appears three times. _Periodicals and Short Fiction_ _The New-York Weekly Magazine, Or, Miscellaneous Repository_: Volume II, 1797. Reprinted as a single bound volume containing 52 8-page issues (July 1796-June 1797). [Abbreviated "NY Weekly"] Only two volumes of this periodical, and a few issues of the third, were published; only volume II was available to me. At least 30 separate pieces are quoted in _Alida_, so it is likely that some unidentified sources are in volumes I or III. Most essays 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_. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 text, a set of three dots ... on a line of their own means that one or more complete paragraphs or stanzas have been skipped.]