nvas of a Sully."[19]

[19] Sully's painting of Cooke as _Richard III_ in the Philadelphia
Academy of the Fine Arts.

The father of Charles Robert Leslie was Robert Leslie, who had been a
watchmaker at Elktown, Md., and had removed to Philadelphia in 1786. He
was a member of the American Philosophical Society and a friend of Rush
and Barton and Wistar and Physick. It was while residing in London that
Charles Robert was born, October 19, 1794. An elder sister, Eliza, was
born in 1787 in Philadelphia. She won a prize for a story, "Mrs.
Washington Potts," in _Godey's Lady's Book_, and afterwards edited the
_Gift_, an annual, and _Miss Leslie's Magazine_, a monthly publication
(1843).

_Blackwood's Magazine_ in 1824 congratulated America on C. R. Leslie's
success. He never lost his profound respect and affection for Samuel
Bradford, and named his second son after him. In the second year (1813)
of Leslie's residence in London, Washington Allston's health became
seriously affected, and he resolved to visit Bristol. Coleridge, who was
affectionately attached to Allston, followed him thither. "The house was
so full," writes Leslie, in his autobiographical recollections, "that
the poet was obliged to share a double-bedded room with me. We were kept
up late in consequence of the critical condition of Allston, and when we
retired Coleridge, seeing a copy of Knickerbocker's History of New York
which I had brought with me, lying on the table, took it up and began
reading. I went to bed, and think he must have sat up the greater part
of the night, for the next day he had nearly got through Knickerbocker.
This was many years before it was published in England, and the work
was, of course, entirely new to him. He was delighted with it" (p. 23).

THE ANALECTIC.--Washington Irving, who had met Allston in Rome in 1804,
and who was for a time almost swerved from his literary purpose by his
desire to become a painter, and with whose first literary triumph
Coleridge thus became familiar, was also a Philadelphia editor. In 1809
E. Bronson and others began to print upon their Lorenzo press _The
Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines_, edited by Samuel
Ewing. The magazine was bought by Moses Thomas, in 1812, who changed its
name to the _Analectic_. Irving was its editor in 1813-14. He
contributed to it some of the essays of the "Sketch Book," "Traits of
Indian Character," and "Philip of Pokanoket." He reviewed Robert Treat
Paine