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Dwight, John Sullivan, Dwight's Journal of Music, Boston, 1852–1881

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Goodwin, Thomas; Mason, Rufus Osgood, Sketches and impressions, musical, theatrical and social: (1799-1885) including a sketch of the Philharmonic society of New York , G. P. Putnam's sons, New York & London, 1887

Hipsher, Edward Ellsworth, American opera and its composers,  A complete history of serious American opera, with a summary of the lighter forms which led up to its birth. Theodore Presser,  Philadelphia, Pa., [c1927]

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Huneker, James Gibbons,  The Phiharmonic Society of New York and its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, 1917

Johnson, H. Earle, Musical Interludes in Boston 1795-1830, Columbia University Press, New York, 1943

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Lawrence, Vera Brodsky, Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 3 volumes, 1988, 1995, 1999

Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, Records ca. 1820-1991, minutes of directors of music, 1820-1831, University of Pennsylvania Library, Ms. Coll. 90, Box 21

Newman, Nancy, Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society and Transatlantic Musical Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Nancy Newman, Providence, RI, 2002

NY Philharmonic Archives, 1842-1928: The * indicates he/she was at one time or another the principal. Abbreviations of instruments means they also played that other instrument. AM indicates "Actual Member."  In the early years there was a distinctionmade between those who were actually voted in as members and those who were not.

Parker, John Rowe, and Dingley, Charles, eds., The Euterpeiad, or Musical Intelligencer, Thomas Badger, Jr., Boston, 1820 – 1823.

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Saloman, Ora Frishberg, "Victor Pelissier, Composer in Federal New York and Philadelphia", Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Talley, John Barry, Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis, The Tuesday Club, 1745-56, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1988

Philadelphia Newspapers:
Clapoole's or Poulson's American Daily Advertiser
Daily Aurora
The Pennsylvania journal, or, Weekly advertiser.
The Pennsylvania gazette.
The American weekly mercury.

Chicago musical papers:
"The Flower Queen" , The Western Journal of Music 1856