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lady and through her connections we have this beautiful old manor
but we are beastly short on ready money owing to my long ill¬
ness." It was only after Stephen's death that William discovered
that Cora was neither Stephen's wife nor, despite her marriage to
Captain Stewart, a proper English lady. Provincial squire that he
was, he cruelly severed the Crane family's personal associations
with her and employed his legal skills to deprive her of her just
share in Stephen's meager financial legacy.

Notes

1 Joseph Katz, "S.C. to WilHam Howe Crane: A Recovered Letter,"

Stephen Crane Newsletter, i (Winter, 1966), 8. Katz refers to this letter in
the Ne'wark PubHc Library as a "typewritten original with corrections that
may be in Crane's hand," but it is apparently a later transcription, and it had
been previously printed in the Newark Evening News, November 3, 1921
before it was partly quoted by Thomas L. Raymond, Stephen Crane (New¬
ark: Carteret Book Club, 1923), p. 11. The holograph original is in the Uni¬
versity of Virginia Library.

- Lillian Gilkes, Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, i960), pp. 71-91; Lillian Gilkes,
"Stephen Crane's 'Dan Emonds': A Pig in a Storm," Studies i?2 Short Fic¬
tion, 2 (1964) 66-71; R. W. Stallman, "Was Crane's Sketch of the Fleet off
Crete a. ^ourna.Visticiioa.xr'''' Studies in Short Fictiojj, 2 (1964), 72-76; Lillian
Gilkes, "No Hoax: A Reply to Mr. Stallman," Studies in Short Fiction, 2
(1964), 77-83; R. W. Stallman, Stephen Crane: A Biography (New York:
George Braziller, 1968), pp. 268-271, 537-539; Lillian Gilkes, "Stephen and
Cora Crane: Some Corrections and a 'Millionaire' Named Sharcfe," Amer¬
ican Literature, 41 (1969), 270-277; R. W. Stallman, "How Stephen Crane
Got to Crete," American Literature, 44 (1972), 308-313; R. W. Stallman,
Stephen Crane: A Critical Bibliography (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State Univer¬
sity Press, 1972), pp. 446,494-496, 585-588,620.

^ The Umversity of Virginia Edition of the Works of Stephen Crane, ed.
Fredson Bowers, Vol. 9, Reports of War (Charlottesville: The University
Press of Virginia, i97i),p. 5. At another point in this dispatch. Crane refers
to "the thin wail of a baby that had objected without pause from Marseilles
[emphasis mine] to the roll and heave of the ship" (p. 6).

* Joseph Conrad, Introduction to Thomas Beer, Stephen Crave: A Study
in American Letters (NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923), p. 11.