RookHouse wrote:

I cannot find the name of the author of this article. The NY Times
archives only list the date of each article.

Thanks for the link.

A pity -- that means that the information may be as confused as some
of the more well-known descriptions of his mental health: some parts OK,
some parts not so OK.

The regular chess reporting in NYT didn't start until 1901 (Whyld), so
there's no knowing who it might have been, either.

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