[Evert Augustus Duyckinck], notice in the New York Morning News

Duyckinck (1816–78) was an influential editor and critic, and the leader of the ‘Young America’ group of literary nationalists. He arranged the publication of Tales,and gave much support to Poe at this time. See further Claude Richard, Poe and “Young America”, University of Virginia Studies in Bibliography,21 (1968), 25–58; also No. 59.