MANUSCRIPT: NYPL (Berg Collection). Ink.

PUBLICATION: Libbie Auction Catalogue (of the Edward Abbot collection), 25, 26 February 1909, 6 pp.; NEQ 163:25 (1932), 441, in part.

Cowan was ordained 9 April 1869, and was still unmarried. Clara Newman married Sidney Turner, 14 October 1869. For the quotation from Macbeth, see letters no. 669 and 986.