A quotation given in the first paragraph is credited to Henry Dana Ward. I have looked up the original article from which this quotation is taken, as found in the New York Journal of Commerce, of November 14, 1833, and find a long article to which no name is appended, and it appears that Henry Dana Ward was not one of the editors of the paper. If he wrote this article, there is no proof of it in the paper itself. WWPGC 27.7
Response: Criticism accepted, and text changed to delete the name. The quotation retained. WWPGC 27.8
1888 book read: “On the day following its appearance, [the falling of the stars] Henry Dana Ward wrote thus of the wonderful phenomenon: ‘No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event, I suppose, like that of yesterday morning.’” Et cetera. WWPGC 28.1
1911 edition reads: “In the New York Journal of Commerce of November 14, 1833, appeared a long article regarding this wonderful phenomenon, containing this statement: ‘No philosopher or scholar,’” et cetera. WWPGC 28.2