Sirius, de Bunsen and Louis de B_____

Having watched "Sirius" morph in his language and subject matter and rhetorical stances through several years of The Two Worlds now, I have little confidence in Emma's claim that "Sirius" was "the author of Art Magic," if by that second term we mean "Louis de B____" and (as lead contender for that role) Ernest de Bunsen.

(If of course Emma is the author of Art Magic, then the equivalency Sirius = "the author of Art Magic" is one I'm very comfortable with.)

In order to link Ernest de Bunsen to Louis de B______ in some material way, we have to find Ernest de Bunsen in the United States in the 1856-60 time frame, and again in the 1872-75 time frame, says Robert Mathiesen, and I agree with that litmus test.

No records of anyone named Bunsen with the approximate demographics of Ernest (age, etc.) is to be found in the shipping line records available to me.

Good news is that the diaries of Elizabeth Gurney de Bunsen, Ernest's wife, apparently survive amongst the papers of her son Maurice, in the Bodleian Library.