United States author, poet and folklorist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Godfrey_Leland" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Godfrey Leland">Charles Godfrey Leland</a>.
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LOC gives "Between 1855 and 1865", but 1853 as date of publication.
United States Library of Congress Call Number: LC-BH82- 4661 C, REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.01563">LC-DIG-cwpbh-01563</a>.  Originally published in the articcle "Legend of <i>Bernadus</i>", in <i>Illustrated News</i>, Jan., 1853