Richard Henry Stoddard
From the Introduction by Edmund Clarence Stedman: Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) began long enough ago to have had his early poetry refused by Poe because it was too good to be the work of an obscure stripling.
From 1870 to 1873, he was a confidential clerk to George B. McClellan in the New York dock department, and from 1874 to 1875 city librarian of New York. He was a literary reviewer for the New York World (1860–1870); one of the editors of Vanity Fair; editor of The Aldine (1869–1879), and literary editor of the Mail and the Mail and Express (1880–1903).
