Abbreviations used
Date November 5 1885
County York
Place Fredericton
Newspaper The Fredericton Evening Capital
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
The retiring editor of 'Lippincott's Magazine', John Foster KIRK, was born in Fredericton, N.B. about 1820 and educated in Nova Scotia. He acted as private secretary to William H. PRESCOTT during the last eleven years of the historian's life. He published 'The History of Charles the Bold of Burgundy' in 1863.