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- ↑ "Mr J. Hickory Wood. Well Known Pantomime Writer's Death". The North Star . 29 August 1913. p. 8.
- 1 2 ""Panto" King Dead". The Sunday People . 31 August 1913. p. 17.
- ↑ Dietz, Dan (2022). "Mother Goose". The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538168943.
- ↑ "The Chronicles of Mr. Pottersby". The Bookseller : 571. June 9, 1898.
- ↑ The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints, volume 671. Mansell Publishing. p. 284. ISBN 9780720115277.
- ↑ "Recitations : Comic and Otherwise". Literary World : 388. November 18, 1898.
