1Victor H. Wolff was president of the Cluster Literary Union of New York, an “association of young men” active in the late 1860s and 1870s. The society extended honorary memberships to other literary men of the time, including William Cullen Bryant and Horatio Alger, Jr. (“Lectures and Meetings,” New York Sun, 26 Nov 1868, 1; New York Times: “Third Annual Ball of the Literary Cluster Society,” 19 Nov 1869, 5; “The Ball Season,” 16 Nov 1871, 2; Bryant 1992, 360; Scharnhorst and Bales 1985, 119; in the last two publications “Cluster” has been misread as “Chester”).