Abbreviations used
Date February 9 1893
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
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.
Among the historians of our day who had their birth in Canada is the author of 'Charles the Bold', John Foster KIRK. Mr. Kirk was born at Fredericton, N.B. in 1824 and there and in Nova Scotia his life was passed until his 18th year, when he crossed the border in search of fortune. He became the highly prixed secretary and amanuesis of William H. PRESCOTT and to Mr. Kirk the admirers of the most romantic of new-world historians are not a little indebted. - Montreal 'Gazette' (see original)