Daly, Augustin authorOf Current Literature--Adah Issacs Menken, Some Notes of Her Life in Her Own Hand

Daly writes the preface to this autobiographical sketch by Menken. Daly says that he came into possession of these notes about Menken in 1862, when he was writing a weekly column about the theater for the New York _Courier_. He also claims that Menken's real name was Adelaide McCord.