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- ↑ Fifty-years of a Play-goer's Journal, pp. v (1860)
- 1 2 Ireland, Joseph N. Records of the New York Stage: From 1750 to 1860, Volume 1, p. 44 (1866)
- 1 2 Sonneck, Oscar. Early Opera in America, Volume 2, pp. 37-38 (1915)
- ↑ Dunlap, William. [History of the American Theatre, Vol. 1], p. 54 (1833)
- ↑ Abstracts of Wills, Vol. XV, p. 190 (1907) (Transcription of Woolls' will)
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