Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkins describe this work as an 'amended prose cutting ... [from the People's Advocate] 7 June 1856', part of MS C380 Charles Harpur poems and critical writings ca. 1846-1892 '[c]uttings with various dates probably compiled 1858.'
Source: The Poems of Charles Harpur in Manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in Publication in the Nineteenth Century: An Analytical Finding List (Canberra: Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, 2002): 208-209
