He'd pitched Jay Grimes, the managing editor, to let him do a five- thousand-word piece for the Sentinel.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
In conjunction with a friend, who steered him through the spelling and grammar, he concocted an article for the Swillingford Patriot-Grimes, editor-which "appeared in the middle of the third sheet, and was headed, 'Splendid Run with Mr. Puffington's Hounds.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
I jest as live mar would know it as not, but then she'll tell aunt Betsy Wiggles, and aunt Betsy will go rite over to old Deliverance Grimes, and tell her, and then Deliverance she'll put on her bonnet and start all over town, and ef Jim Pendergrass gets hold of it he'll hector me to death, for he's a rale pro-slavery Dimmycrat, and thinks that our colored brethren and sisters are fit only for slaves.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith