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Notes
- ↑ "Bread and Cheese Club | American intellectual group". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ↑ Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, 469-470.
Sources
- Nelson F. Adkins: "James Fenimore Cooper and the Bread and Cheese Club," Modern Language Notes, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Feb., 1932): 71-79.
- Albert H. Marckwardt: "The Chronology and Personnel of the Bread and Cheese Club," American Literature, Vol. 6, No. 4 (January 1935): 389-399.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica: Bread and Cheese Club, Bread and Cheese Club | American intellectual group
- Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.