¹  Letters have been assigned numbers 1A through 158C by the editor to indicate their position within the chronologically arranged collection of 172 pieces.  The author's name precedes each number.   [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
²  Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919), mother of William Randolph Hearst, met Harris during his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, between 1898 and 1901, and encouraged the development of his talents by financing his travels through New York and Europe between 1902 and 1905.   [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
³  Barrett Wendell (1855-1921) was a professor of English at Harvard whom Harris met in mid-February, 1902, while acting in New Haven, Connecticut, in Augustus Thomas's 1902 dramatization of Richard Harding Davis'sSoldiers of Fortune (1897).  In 1902-1903, Wendell presented several lectures on American and English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.   [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
⁴  King Edward VII's coronation was scheduled for the last week of June.    [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
⁵  Robert Edeson (1868-1931) starred in Thomas's Soldiers of Fortune (1902) and in Harris's first professionally produced American play, The Offenders (1908).   [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
⁶  Ralph Erwin Gibbs (1876-1903) was Harris's classmate and fellow member of Berkeley's English Club and literary magazine.  He was an aspiring poet, and his premature death inspired the 1903 publication of Songs of Content: A Volume of Verse, edited by both students' former professor and founding editor of Modern Philology, Charles Mills Gayley (see Harris #77).  While in Europe, Harris sent his manuscripts to Gibbs for submission in local competitions (Harris #26 and #64).   [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
⁷  Coquelin Ainé (1841-1909), whose forte was romantic comedy, debuted at the Comédie-Française in 1860 and remained there as its leading actor until 1886, when he began dividing his time between acting there and touring with his own company.  Author Edmond Rostand created the role of Cyrano for Coquelin, and dedicated his play to him in 1897 (Rostand [v]).   [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
⁸  Harold Symmes (1878-1910) was in 1902-3 working on a dissertation on dramatic criticism of Shakespeare productions.  He is also the author of Songs of Yosemite (Yosemite Valley, CA: A. F. Hall, 1911), an illustrated book of verse.    [Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot" ]
     
⁹  Carnes's history and relationship with Harris are currently being researched.    [ Back to "Tempesta and the Teapot"]
     
¹⁰  Bertha Pogson and Harris collaborated on the translation of Hess Dieyer's Under Treatment in 1904.  There are suggestions that they did more work together, but this is currently being researched.  See also Pogson's The Absorbing Passion, an original play written in 1906.

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