14 Facts About Evert Duyckinck

Evert Duyckinck was associated with the literary side of the Young America movement in New York.

Evert Duyckinck was born on November 23,1816, in New York City to Evert Duyckinck, a publisher.

Evert Duyckinck then studied law with John Anthon, and was admitted to the bar in 1837.

Evert Duyckinck wrote articles on other authors while at home and in Europe.

Between 1844 and 1846, Evert became the literary editor of John L O'Sullivan's The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which moved from Washington DC to New York in 1840.

Evert Duyckinck published Wit and Wisdom of Sydney Smith, with a memoir ; an American edition of Willroot's Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Evert Duyckinck died on August 13,1878 in New York City.

On 18 February 1865, Evert Duyckinck sent President Abraham Lincoln a letter.

Evert Duyckinck signed the letter "Asmodeus", with his initials below his pseudonym.

Evert Duyckinck's letter enclosed a newspaper clipping about an inappropriate joke allegedly told by Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference.

The purpose of Evert Duyckinck's letter was to advise Lincoln of "an important omission" about the history of the conference.

Evert Duyckinck advised that the newspaper clipping be added to the "Archives of the Nation".

In January 1879, a meeting in his memory was held by the New York Historical Society, and a biographical sketch of Evert Duyckinck was read by William Allen Butler.

William Allen Butler noted that Duckinck's taste in literature was too high for most readers: "While Evert Duyckinck was the most genial of companions, and the most impartial of critics, he was too much of a recluse, buried in his books, almost solitary in life, and entirely removed from the circle of worldly and fashionable life".